English | 2022 | ISBN: 0806541601 | 345 pages | True EPUB | 1.31 MB
"Couldn't put it down." -Nicholas Pileggi, author ofWiseguy (Goodfellas)andCasino

The extraordinary life and times of a legendary crime boss who refused to squeal-but who finally agreed to talk to an award-winning New YorkNewsdayreporter shortly before his death at age 103 . . .
John "Sonny" Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a "made man" for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, loansharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades-and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery charges. But even behind bars, Sonny Franzese never stopped doing business . . .
This is the true story of an old-school mafioso as it's never been told before.Newsdayreporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison-and...