Was finally able to read this book over the weekend. Been on my list for about 20 years but refused to spend $300+ on it as it's out of print.
Amazing book, lots of great info on specifics unlike Five Families and other broad based NYC mob books. I found this operation to be one of the most interesting of all racketeering in the city aside from garbage ("Takedown" on the garbage rackets was very good). Great ground level view of the operation and it named names. Was able to identify almost everyone that was mentioned except "Funzi". Assuming this was mostly a Lucchese operation I'm hoping NYMafia can help me w/ this ID.
70s seemed like a wild time in NYC between police corruption and the golden age of the mob. A must read if you can get your hands on it.
How did you manage to get hold of a copy?
Like you , I've been looking to buy a copy but the price is way high.
Only way I'll get to buy it is if amazon print it and sell. They've just released the 70s carlo gambino book, with an update. That's the second hard to get book I've bought from amazon reprint.
** thanks for the Takedown mention. Never came up in the many mob book searches I do.. ordered
