I'm just starting to get into mafia fiction, too (non Godfather, Puzo). Frankie Machine was meh. I've heard the Road To Perdition sequels have a lot of good stuff about the Outfit's reach into national politics. Grishams books really get into the midwest and southern mobs. The Firm has a different ending than the movie. James Elroy's "LA Quartet" has a lot about the LA mobs, Dragna and Coen.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
