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The Good Rat: A True Story

By Jimmy Breslin

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2009
ISBN
0060856696, 9780060856694
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
240 kB (245267 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
304\0
Time added
2013-05-29 11:04:42

Description

In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito—interwoven with the remarkable true-crime saga of the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the recent trial of two NYPD detectives indicted for carrying out eight gangland executions. Through these unforgettable real-life and long-forgotten Mafia stories, Jimmy Breslin captures the moments in which the mob was made and broken.

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