Mob Boss, Jerry Capeci
Mob Boss, Jerry Capeci
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Mob Boss
The Life of Little Al D'arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia

Author: Jerry Capeci, Tom Robbins

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 16 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/19/2013


Synopsis


Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison.

In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D'Arco's life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for four decades.

Until the day he switched sides, D'Arco lived and breathed the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D'Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on mob secrets going back a hundred years.

After speaking with D'Arco, the authors reveal unprecedented insights, exposing shocking secrets and troublesome truths about a city where a famous pizza parlor doubled as a Mafia center for multi-million-dollar heroin deals, where hit men carried out murders dressed as women, and where kidnapping a celebrity newsman's son was deemed appropriate revenge for the father's satirical novel.

Capeci and Robbins spent hundreds of hours in conversation with D'Arco, and exhausted many hours more fleshing out his stories in this riveting narrative that takes readers behind the famous witness testimony for a comprehensive look at the Mafia in New York City.

About Jerry Capeci

Jerry Capeci, a New York-based award-winning reporter, columnist, and author for more than four decades, has written or coauthored seven books about the Mafia, including Murder Machine and Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt on August 02, 2015

I really liked this book. Good detail, good background, and overall well put together in typical biographical form. This can be read by mafia enthusiasts and a passing novice as well. Does a solid job laying out the players along the way. Pretty typical of the crumbling Mafia in the last 3 decades,......more

Goodreads review by Matt on October 16, 2019

I LOVE this book. Such an incredibly rich and vivid piece of storytelling - you’re drawn in from the first page and the authors do an incredible job of setting the stage whilst reinforcing the credibility of the storyteller. In different stages you’re drawn into vividly painted scenes from working c......more

Goodreads review by Armand on November 22, 2021

Lots of interesting stories. I'm a huge fan of true crime and Mobster stories, and this book is loaded with them. Great insight into how the Families worked together (and against one another and themselves) over the years, too.......more

Goodreads review by Jake on April 21, 2022

Among those of us who love mafia stories (both fiction and non-fiction), there’s been a constant discussion of what we’d do with a 4th Godfather movie. Would we continue the tale of Anthony Mancini? Find another story about Michael Corleone? Take another angle? I recently rewatched the first two Godf......more

Goodreads review by Donna on April 01, 2017

Mob Boss The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia Jerry Capeci has written about the American mob for a long time; Tom Robbins is an experienced crime journalist. Both of them sat in on D’Arco’s court testimony, and later took hundreds of hours of interviews down on tape. Neith......more