Gangland

How the FBI Broke the Mob

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  • In
  • the
  • bestselling
  • tradition
  • of
  • Wiseguy
  • and
  • Boss
  • of
  • Bosses
  • --
  • the
  • inside
  • story
  • of
  • the
  • fall
  • of
  • the
  • "Teflon
  • Don"The
  • team:
  • A
  • handpicked
  • squad
  • of
  • FBI
  • agents
  • --
  • led
  • by
  • a
  • war
  • hero
  • determined
  • to
  • get
  • the
  • job
  • done.
  • The
  • target:
  • John
  • Gotti,
  • the
  • seemingly
  • invincible
  • head
  • of
  • the
  • richest
  • and
  • most
  • powerful
  • crime
  • of
  • modern-day
  • Untouchables,
  • the
  • FBI's
  • C-16
  • Organized
  • Crime
  • squad,
  • who
  • finally
  • ended
  • the
  • cocky
  • crime
  • lord's
  • reign
  • of
  • terror.Drawing
  • on
  • unprecedented
  • access
  • to
  • FBI
  • records
  • and
  • agents,
  • bestselling
  • author
  • and
  • prize-winning
  • journalist
  • Howard
  • Blum
  • tells
  • the
  • riveting
  • and
  • suspenseful
  • story
  • behind
  • the
  • headlines.
  • Here
  • is
  • the
  • deadly
  • game
  • of
  • cat
  • and
  • mouse
  • that
  • pitted
  • Gotti,
  • his
  • ruthless
  • henchmen
  • and
  • his
  • elusive
  • law-enforcement
  • mole
  • against
  • the
  • Bureau.It
  • is
  • a
  • tale
  • of
  • courage,
  • murder
  • and
  • betrayal.
  • From
  • Mafia
  • backrooms
  • to
  • FBI
  • squad
  • rooms,
  • from
  • the
  • high-tech
  • electronic
  • invasion
  • of
  • Gotti's
  • headquarters
  • to
  • the
  • desperate
  • effort
  • to
  • expose
  • the
  • mole,
  • Gangland
  • is
  • more
  • shocking
  • than
  • fiction
  • --
  • an
  • instant
  • Mafia classic.
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