

Family Secrets
The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
Author: Jeff Coen
Narrator: Matthew Boston
Unabridged: 14 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/28/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, True Crime, Organized Crime
Synopsis
Painting a vivid picture of murder, courtroom drama, family loyalties and disloyalties, journalist Jeff Coen accurately portrays the Chicago Outfit's cold-blooded—and sometimes incompetent—killers and their crimes in the case that brought them down. In 1998 Frank Calabrese Jr. volunteered to wear a wire to gather evidence against his father, a vicious loan shark who strangled most of his victims with a rope before slitting their throats to ensure they were dead. Frank Jr. went after his uncle Nick as well, a calculating but sometimes bumbling hit man who would become one of the highest-ranking turncoats in mob history, admitting he helped strangle, stab, shoot, and bomb victims who got in the mob's way, and turning evidence against his brother Frank.