Originally Posted By: Alfa_Romeo
Peter Maas' Valachi Papers is only 285 pages long. "The Real Thing" from Valachi himself is 1,180 pages.

To put that in perspective, that is 895 missing pages.


the more relevant comparison would be between Maas' originally intended edition and the 285-page edition

plus if Valachi wrote the manuscript by hand, probably less words per page

even so, it would appear that certain information was censored -- why?