Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys, Craig McGuire
Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys, Craig McGuire
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Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys
Surviving Brooklyn's Colombo Mob

Author: Craig McGuire, Carmine Imbriale

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/20/2022


Synopsis

This is the true story of Carmine Imbriale—a gambler, a brawler, a bandit, a bookie, an enforcer. For two decades, Imbriale was a street-level operative in one of the most violent crews in the Colombo Family.

Now in hiding, Imbriale teams up with true-crime veteran writer Craig McGuire to take you inside the Thirteenth Avenue rackets at the height of their violence. This is the jarring account of his lawless lifestyle culminating in a gang war in South Brooklyn, from which he emerges a survivor.

From his first arrest at fifteen for robbing a Coney Island pimp to surviving multiple assassination attempts, Imbriale offers up dozens of too-good-to-be-true tales featuring some of the most notorious gangsters, as well as other lions and lackeys of La Cosa Nostra, and details a beef with none other than Greg "The Grim Reaper" Scarpa Sr.

A young streetwise hustler, Imbriale thought he found loyalty, a brotherhood. Instead, he descended into a world of treachery and deceit, where your best friend is your executioner, and no one gets out alive. But no one expected him to become the domino that helped bring it all down.

Contains mature themes.

About Craig McGuire

A frequent speaker and podcast guest, Craig McGuire has been a successful writer, editor, designer, photographer, community reporter, new media journalist, and content creator for the last thirty years. He has overseen content development for all different types of media, from web portals to newsletters to social media programs. His books include Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys - Surviving Brooklyn's Colombo Mob and Brooklyn's Most Wanted.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on May 02, 2022

This is a good book about Carmine Imbriale’s incredible, crazy, mob career in South Brooklyn. It’s filled with people, places and events that many will find notorious. It’s amazing the number of mob guys that he knew and interacted with. He survived an era that most didn’t. They were either killed,......more

Goodreads review by Renee on May 01, 2022

Coming from the Avenue myself, I will say this is an accurate book. The author did a great job researching all of the players and their family too. The book is chock full of true events as well as direct quotes. The descriptions of the area between 13th Avenue and 18th Avenue are great. He was one o......more

Goodreads review by D. Richard Eunice on July 09, 2022

Surprisingly honest I have read a lot of books on organized crime including biographies. This is one book I think is honestly true. A lot of these type of books make excuses for doing things and always want to put the blame on others. For once the facts are laid out for the reader to accept or reject......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen Riggs on May 04, 2022

A Superb Mob Book. This book is very an interesting way to see life in the Brooklyn back in the day. The book is about Carmine Imbriale’s and his life when he chose a mob career in South Brooklyn. Carmine takes you on a journey of Incredible crazy times where most mobsters were either killed or went......more

Goodreads review by John on March 03, 2025

Couldn’t wait to be done with this Carmine. Useful info on the setting of Bensonhurst within that era and some of the neighborhood politics and dynamics but I could not wait to be away from this fuck up. No wonder he was never really taken in by anyone officially for decades. These mob books are inh......more