ALL ABOUT JOHN GOTTI

They called him the Dapper Don, then the Teflon Don the gangster who beat the United States government three times in open court, grinned from the cover of Time, and dressed like a movie star while he did it.

Nine days before Christmas 1985, four men in white trench coats gunned down Paul Castellano outside a Manhattan steakhouse. Across the street, a silver-haired capo from Queens watched his boss die and his own coronation begin. Within two weeks John Gotti was the most famous gangster in the world and on a road that would end mute and cancer-eaten in a concrete cell, betrayed by the man who sat beside him that night. To understand how a boy born with nothing decided this was the only life worth living, you have to go back to four crowded rooms in the South Bronx.

ALL ABOUT JOHN GOTTI is a fast, immersive, and richly detailed portrait of the last of the old-style bosses and the first of the celebrity dons: the day laborer's son with a chip on his shoulder, the street brawler who clawed his way to the top of the Gambino family, the showman who mistook fame for safety.

Inside, you'll discover:

- The Bronx poverty and the gambling father the son could never forgive.

- East New York, Anastasia's shadow, and the making of a Brooklyn tough.

- The Castellano hit at Sparks the coup that put him on the throne.

- The Dapper Don years: the tailored suits, the crowds, the courtroom victories.

- The wiretaps, the neighbor complaints, and the vanity that armed the government.

- Sammy the Bull, the betrayal, and the silent death of the Teflon Don.

Part of the ALL ABOUT collection: short, modern biographies for readers who want the full story of a remarkable life without reading 800 pages to get it.

One coffee. One sitting. One unforgettable life.