I'm reading the Pitera book now. Pretty good read but as usual Carlo plays hard and fast with facts, especially with background history. Who recounts the history of Bonnanos without even mentioning the Banana Wars? He also refers to Joe Bonnano as the "retired boss" as if he wasn't forced out of the family and exiled out of NYC. I mean when you're talking about the politics of that family those are some pretty important facts to gloss over.


This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this, hey, thats great. But it's very, very unpredictable. There are so many ways you can screw it up.-Paul Castellano (he would know)

"I'm not talking about Italians, I'm talking about criminals."-Joe Valachi