ALL ABOUT JOHN GOTTI
About this ebook
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.
