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Rivetingan electrifying true crime story of the Mafiasmitten eighties and nineties Suspenseful and multifaceted The Gotti Wars cant be missed Esquire The Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
A meticulous chronicle of good triumphing over evil The Washington Post from the determined young prosecutor who in two of Americas most celebrated trials managed to convict famed mob boss John Gottiand ultimately took down the Mafia altogether
John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and most feared Mafioso in American history He became the boss of the Gambino Crime Family in spectacular fashionwith the brazen and very public murder of Paul Castellano in front of Sparks Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan in 1985 Not one to stay below law enforcements radar Gotti instead became the first celebrity crime boss His penchant for eyecatching apparel earned him the nickname The Dapper Don his ability to beat criminal charges led to another The Teflon Don
This is the captivating story of Gottis meteoric rise to power and his equally dramatic downfall Every step of the way Gottis legal adversaryJohn Gleeson an Assistant US Attorney in Brooklynwas watching When Gotti finally faced two federal racketeering prosecutions Gleeson prosecuted both As the junior lawyer in the first casea bitter sevenmonth battle that ended in Gottis acquittalGleeson found himself in Gottis crosshairs falsely accused of serious crimes by a defense witness Gotti intimidated into committing perjury
Five years later Gleeson was in charge of the second racketeering investigation and trial Armed with the FBIs secret recordings of Gottis conversations with his underboss and consigliere in the apartment above Gottis Little Italy hangout Gleeson indicted all three He flipped underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano killer of nineteen men who became historys highestranking mob turncoatresulting in Gottis murder conviction Gleeson ended not just Gottis reign but eventually that of the entire mob
A spellbinding pageturning courtroom drama The Gotti Wars tells us in electrifying detail how the good guys finally won how justice triumphed over evil and how Gleeson himself was transformed by his long war Nelson DeMille
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