The Good Guys

Name: The Good Guys
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Bill Bonanno
ISBN: 9781415921760

Author: Bill Bonanno, Joe Pistone

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 14 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 01/11/2005

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled

Synopsis

Former head of the Bonnano crime family, Bill Bonnano, and former undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) have collaborated with David Fisher on a riveting thriller about organized crime. Set in New York City in the mid-1980s, The Good Guys finds the Russian Mafia, the Italian Mafia, and the Feds racing against each other to track down a mysterious professor of Russian languages from Columbia University. Rumors circulate that the professor had been moonlighting for the Russian mob, working on fuel oil deals involving millions of dollars. Now all parties involved will stop at nothing to get their hands on him. The converging manhunts offer listeners a firsthand look at the gritty, in-your-face competition between the Russian and Italian mobs and how each does business.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julia on October 30, 2018

I picked this book because not only do I like Mafia stories, but it is also co-authored by Joe Pistons whom I know to be Donnie Branco. It did not disappoint. I liked the way the chapters alternated between the FBI’s point of view and the Mafia’s. I had to laugh at the authors’ photo on the dust jac......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on January 05, 2025

Pretty entertaining book that rotates perspectives of a mob mystery from the eyes of two FBI agents and a Mafia crime family. The beginning was extremely interesting, but once the book turned into the detailing of a smaller perspective of a Mafia scam and the FBIs investigation of said scam, it got m......more

Goodreads review by Huguette on July 16, 2017

wow , i never read a book that give me nightmare but this one did. something happen at page about 393, that shock me wen to bed , and in my dream something happen like in that book and i tried to save the man but could not . the mob and the FBI,......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on November 04, 2024

Some interesting insights. Bloody and often violent and not for cozy lovers.......more

Goodreads review by FDR on June 15, 2019

Nice fiction. The chapters alternate between the criminals and the feds which keeps the narrative exciting throughout. The additional perspectives of Bill Bonanno and Joe Pistone are a nice bonus.......more