Little Al D'Arco was the quintessential wiseguy-and the mob's worst
nightmare...A compelling book about the rise and decline of the American
Mafia.-Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino
Alfonso Little Al D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime
family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness
when he flipped in 1991. His testimony sent more than fifty Mafiosos to
prison-and prompted many others to do the same, including John Gotti's
top aide, Salvatore Sammy the Bull Gravano-and altered the course of New
York's mob scene forever.
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Fascinating. -*The Village Voice
In Mob Boss, two award-winning news reporters offer an unparalleled
account of D'Arco's life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for
four decades. Until the day he switched sides, D'Arco lived and breathed
the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and
fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he
was marked to be whacked, D'Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated
his crime family and opened a window on a century's worth of mob
secrets-many of which are published in this riveting account for the
very first time.