Mafia

Now available in a sleek, accessible paperback format, MAFIA is the ultimate primary source guide to La Cosa Nostra all its most storied players. With pages pulled directly from a recently unearthed secret government file, MAFIA is perhaps the most comprehensive and authoritative body of information on organized crime in mid-century America-and a window into the real lives of nefarious legends. From old-school gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Mickey Cohen to young turks like Paul Castellano and Vinny "The Chin" Gigante, the guide offered at-a-glance profiles of small-time thugs and major dons alike. Only fifty copies of this material-bound in a three-ring black binder, labeled simply MAFIA in green letters-were ever printed, and the book became the mother lode Robert F. Kennedy allegedly used to go after the Mob in his years as attorney general.