War of the Godfathers is fiction. The Las Vegas gang war between Bonanno and the Outfit never occurred. Nor did the murder of Moe Dalitz (who died of natural causes in 1989).

Roemer's best book is Man Against the Mob . The Accardo biography is good if you ignore the early chapters on the Capone years, which are riddled with inaccuracies. Roemer is on firmer ground with the late '50s and '60s period of which he had firsthand knowledge. (Even at that, he should have known better than to repeat the old myth about "Tough Tony" Capezio being struck by lightning on the golf course in 1955; Capezio died playing golf but it was a simple heart attack that did it -- no lightning involved.)