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Operation Family Secrets: How A Mobster's Son And The FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family (2011)

by Frank Calabrese Jr.(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0307717720 (ISBN13: 9780307717726)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Broadway Books

review 1: Good book written in collaboration with a couple other authors. This is the Son who turned on his father and took down a huge portion of the local outfit. Guy did some time and wore a wire on own Dad in the can. His Uncle turned as well. Pretty interesting read for me personally due to all the recent action in the Western Chicago suburbs where I live. I receommend the read if you are into the more recent Chicago Organized crime. Pretty interesting wtist with ultimately the Son turning in the Father. Bunch of justification in the story. Not the biggest players, but big enough players to cripple a nice chunk of Chicago Organized crime. Some decent detail of typical Mafia intrigue.(murder, illegal activity).
review 2: I probably wouldn't have picked this bo... moreok off the shelf out of my own curiosity but I had to read it for my book club. And in the end, I'm glad I read this book and this fascinating true story about the lives and deaths of Chicago mafia mobsters. It was interesting to learn how families got into the "business", and how hard it was/is to get out. Reading about the many cold-blooded executions, the money schemes, the corruption, all of whom have inspired the famous movies we've all seen felt surreal. I just kept turning the pages thinking, wow, that stuff really happens in real life. I can't imagine how much courage it took Calabrese Jr. to take down most of his family and associates, including his own father and uncle. less

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