The Good Guys
Jul 2004 · Hachette+ORM
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Chain-smoking Mickey Fists isn't sure if he's an "addict" or an "attic."
The Freemont Avenue Social Club is on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy. So are the best wiretaps FBI money can buy.
Skinny Al weighed 320 pounds and lived life to the fullest...until someone burned out his eardrums and shot his body full of holes. Hundreds of writers have tried to capture life inside the mob, but no one has ever had the inside access to write a book like this one. Drawing on the firsthand experience of former undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone-aka Donnie Brasco-as well as former Mafia prince Bill Bonanno, The Good Guys straddles both sides of the law, races relentlessly through the New York City underworld, and crackles with characters and moments so vivid they will never let you go. At Columbia University, a professor of Russian literature has gone missing. A few miles and light-years away, Little Eddie LaRocca and Bobby San Filippo are on the move-dealing in everything from hot-sheet hotels to bootleg Fuji film. When the hoods are sent to find the professor, they find out that someone else is looking, too. Beautiful FBI agent Laura Russo is making her preppy partner's head spin. She knows the missing man is important-and somehow connected to a recent mob hit. While Eddie and Bobby are fighting their way through ugly deeds and pretty coeds, these feds will cook up some business of their own, turning a little disagreement among criminals into an all-out war... Capturing the organized crime world of the go-go '80s, Pistone and Bonanno's one-of-a-kind collaboration is bad to the bone-and as marvelously authentic as it gets.
The Freemont Avenue Social Club is on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy. So are the best wiretaps FBI money can buy.
Skinny Al weighed 320 pounds and lived life to the fullest...until someone burned out his eardrums and shot his body full of holes. Hundreds of writers have tried to capture life inside the mob, but no one has ever had the inside access to write a book like this one. Drawing on the firsthand experience of former undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone-aka Donnie Brasco-as well as former Mafia prince Bill Bonanno, The Good Guys straddles both sides of the law, races relentlessly through the New York City underworld, and crackles with characters and moments so vivid they will never let you go. At Columbia University, a professor of Russian literature has gone missing. A few miles and light-years away, Little Eddie LaRocca and Bobby San Filippo are on the move-dealing in everything from hot-sheet hotels to bootleg Fuji film. When the hoods are sent to find the professor, they find out that someone else is looking, too. Beautiful FBI agent Laura Russo is making her preppy partner's head spin. She knows the missing man is important-and somehow connected to a recent mob hit. While Eddie and Bobby are fighting their way through ugly deeds and pretty coeds, these feds will cook up some business of their own, turning a little disagreement among criminals into an all-out war... Capturing the organized crime world of the go-go '80s, Pistone and Bonanno's one-of-a-kind collaboration is bad to the bone-and as marvelously authentic as it gets.
Chain-smoking Mickey Fists isn't sure if he's an "addict" or an "attic."
The Freemont Avenue Social Club is on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy. So are the best wiretaps FBI money can buy.
Skinny Al weighed 320 pounds and lived life to the fullest...until someone burned out his eardrums and sho...
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Frank Sigona
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December 4, 2025
I had this book tucked away in my library for months. One night I started to read it and I'm glad That I did. This book gave equal time to mobsters and FBI agents. It was extremely well written and interesting. Thanks to the author(s) quips there wasn't a dull moment in the book. I read many interest related books and I can honestly say that this was the one I enjoyed the most.
A Google user
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November 30, 2008
As soon as I read the first sentence I knew i was going to like it...I'm into mafia flicks, so I bought this book while waiting at the airport and well it's a pretty good novel, it kept me on the edge, I couldn't stop reading just wanted to keep going. Two very enthusiatic thumbs up!
Rue LaFont
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October 20, 2019
Nice book.
About the author
Bill Bonanno is a former high-ranking member of the Bonanno crime family and co-author of Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story, which has over 247,500 hardcover and paperback copies in print.
Joe Pistone is a former undercover FBI agent and author of the New York Times bestselling Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (New American Library, 1990), which was turned into an acclaimed 1997 feature film starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
Joe Pistone is a former undercover FBI agent and author of the New York Times bestselling Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (New American Library, 1990), which was turned into an acclaimed 1997 feature film starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
Bill Bonanno is a former high-ranking member of the Bonanno crime family and co-author of Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story, which has over 247,500 hardcover and paperback copies in print.
Joe Pistone is a former undercover FBI agent and author of the New York Times bestselling Donnie Brasco: My...
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