About this ebook
On Valentine's Day 1969, in a prison hospital in Missouri, a deferential old man who went to Mass and bought savings bonds died drowning in his own ruined lungs a man who had ordered more deaths than anyone could count, and never once pulled the trigger himself. To understand how a Neapolitan boy with a third-grade education outlived every rival and gave America's most durable Mafia family its name, you have to go back to a village in the shadow of a volcano.
ALL ABOUT VITO GENOVESE is a fast, immersive, and richly detailed portrait of the underworld's great survivor: the silent, patient schemer who spoke "in curves," the boss who fled a murder rap to wartime Italy and came back to claim a throne, the "Right Man" whose ambition shadowed Luciano and Costello to the end.
Inside, you'll discover:
- Risigliano, Vesuvius, and the fatalism he carried across the ocean
- The apprenticeship of a gunman: the arrests that always dissolved, the bullet in the neck
- Donata, the ten-thousand-dollar funeral, and the private grief behind the killer
- The murder charge, the flight to Mussolini's Italy, and the improbable return
- The war with Frank Costello and the shot that reshuffled the Commission
- The Apalachin fiasco, the heroin trap, and death behind bars betrayed and outlived
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.
