There are many books about Boston, don't really know which could be called "definitive". Most are about Bulger, one entirely about Jerry Angiulo, another one all about Barboza etc.
By the way, is the book "Rogue Mobster" by Mark Silverman and Scott Deitche any good? I am interested because it seems to be the only book dedicated to the post-Patriarca period of the Providence mafia, but I read Mark Silverman isn't always reliable, for example he claims he is a non-Italian made member.
Does anyone know if there are books about the mafia in San Francisco or Los Angeles?
Rogue Mobster is a good book but yes Silverman's versions of several events is challenged a lot. He claims the bosses of the New England family inducted him into the mob because they wanted him to relay info to them on his own crew of wannabe gangsters who were at odds with the actual mob. He also makes Paul DeCologero out to be the head of the renegade faction, which is also up for dispute along with many other things he says in this book. Again, he claims he got made, which would make him the only guy with a Jew last name to ever accomplish that and the reason he says they made him is almost an insult to the reader's intelligence if you ask me. I honestly just enjoyed reading it because a main person in the book was a good friend of mine while I was in prison so it was kinda cool him being a big part of the story. Anyway there is a handful of books about LCN in San Francisco and Los Angeles a good one is called Vengeance Is Mine about Jimmy The Weasel Fratianno
