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The Deadly Don

Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss

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The Deadly Don

By: Anthony M. DeStefano
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
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From enforcer to godfather, Vito Genovese rose through the ranks of La Cosa Nostra to head of one of the wealthiest and most dangerous crime families in American history.

In The Deadly Don, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso - from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of an illegal narcotics empire. DeStefano reveals the important and terrifying role Genovese played in the creation of the Mafia, detailing his bloody and ruthless lifetime of crime that would put him behind bars for his last 15 years - and securing his infamous place in the history of organized crime.

©2021 Anthony M. DeStefano (P)2021 Tantor Organized Crime True Crime Exciting
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Great inside knowledge of don Vito Genovese interesting book and the workings of the American mafia

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From prohibition through to the 1950s a great story of one mans rise to the top of the American Mafia

Epic journey through mafia history

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This is an interesting story, plenty of detail, well read. Good for you if you're a fan of the mafia.

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