Originally Posted by FrankValenti
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I don’t know much about Frankie Machine, although I read the Wikipedia synopsis and I can say I’m glad they abandoned that project. For one, it’s entirely fictional.


Partly fictional, not entirely. Some real names and real stories of California and Detroit guys in the book, and the characters with fictional names are rather blatantly based on real people. If you read The Last Mafioso before Machine you'll know who everyone is.

"...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