SONNY by SJ PEDDIE
Good book , but like author explains not easy to write about a 100 year old guy when all his contemporaries are dead. Author had some face to face interviews in the ( poor people) nursing home JF was in. ( none of his his kids let him stay, or their mother ). Hardly anything on early career but gets better once it gets to the mid 60s.

Pretty sure the law was out to get him. Clean or dirty. Went the dirty way in a 50 !! year sentence for supposedly running a bank robbery crew with a gang of lowlifes.
This ended up in repeated parole violations so back to jail many times. All the way up to the 90's.

His children from his first wife are not ever mentioned but the kids from his second wife were a mess except 1 daughter.
The little bits on Michael don't show him in a good light at all. He arranged his mother's funeral but didn't attend. And had her, who prided herself on her appearance, buried in a hospital gown!!

Michael's biological father was a guy called Louis Grillo from mums first marriage. So let's hope that question is cleared up.

Now to John, much more in the book than Michael. But what a loser. Bottom of the barrel junkie who had nothing but the Franzese name.
This scumbag wore a wire against his 90 year old dad. The book says that he was sober and clean at the time. I find it hard to believe, a junkie loser all adulthood, I'm thinking the FBI were giving him daily money to buy his smack so he could function.
Sent his 90 odd dad back to jail. What a scummer.

It's good book.