Make no mistake- dispite its flaws, I love the Valachi Papers (the book, of course). But there are SO many times I wish Maas would have asked Valachi for more detail. My favorites:

1. Valachi says that a later time he'll talk about how Tony Bender "got his", but that he wasn't losing any sleep over it. He never does, or if he did it was edited out. That was a pretty big oversight because I've never read anything about Bender that said anything but "he walked out of his house and was never seen again".

2. The murder of Steve Franse. Wasn't Valachi a bit annoyed that they would do the deed in his restaurant kitchen when they already had Franse in the car to bring him to the restaurant? They murdered him, and then had to drag him back outside to his car and drive him away. We'll never know...

3. What happened to the 3 painters working in the ground floor apartment who they lined up against the wall prior to shooting Joe Baker? Buster said "come here, Joe". Nice.

I got more, but that rant will do for now.