Bringing Down the Mob: The War Against the American Mafia
- ISBN-10
- 0805078029
- ISBN-13
- 9780805078022
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10-31
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Thomas Reppetto
Description
A companion volume to American Mafia provides a compelling account of the federal government's fifty-year battle to bring down America's most powerful crime syndicate, drawing on years of field experience to profile Mafia leaders and the strategies used to bring them down.
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