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Book Review of Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia

Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia
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Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect. Second in command to John Gotti in the nation's most powerful crime family, Gravano's eyewitness testimony sent Gotti, the so-called "Teflon Don," to prison for the rest of his life.

In breaking his blood oath of silence, Sammy the Bull brings us, as never before, into the uppermost inner sanctums of Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.