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Donnie Brasco Deep Cover

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I really enjoyed this book. It was fast paced and exciting. The ending also was very unexpected and not real drawn out like in some other books. I definitely would recommend this book to anyone who appreciates a good F.B.I. agent story.

This is a well written account of what it is like to be an undercover agent. The author doesn't waste alot of time on characterizations or background, he just keeps the excitement in the present and gives you enough detail so you can actually "learn" something about this dark and risky lifestyle. The dialogue between the agents is quick, clean, and intelligent. Donnie's dialogue and interactions with the various residents of the Florida Everglades emphasizes his quick wit and humor. But, how did he spend so much time in a waist deep swamp and not get bitten by anything larger than a mosquito?

The Mafia has a bounty of $500,000 payable to whomever kills him for his role in crippling the "family" from within when he was an undercover operative. The personal cost to Donnie Brasco was the fact that will never be able to spend time with his beloved spouse or two daughters because of the danger he poses to them. Donnie knows he must be on full alert at all times. In spite of the media circus and recent film about his life, Donnie remains very valuable to his employer the FBI.

His superior Jules Donovan assigns him to go undercover as the cousin to an agent posing as a reporter in Florida, investigating political corruption. When he arrives at Marcia Graham's cottage on the beach he finds her dead just before a violent hurricane strikes. Barly surviving the storm, Donnie begins to follows the leads he inherited from Marcia. What he soon will learn is that the local thugs are just as dangerous to his health as those who want his head delivered on a platter.

Anyone who has seen and enjoyed the movie will find the novel, DEEP COVER, adds to the legend of Donnie Brasco. This fictionalized account works as Donnie struggles to survive against the mob, nature, and local punks. At the same his anguish over his inability to see his family provides a humanizing element to a superhero. Joseph D. Pistone writes a fabulous, action-packed tale that calls for a Brasco encore.

Harriet Klausner

I enjoyed Deep Cover. I am curious about two references to a person named Danny in this book. I hope to see more stories featuring Donnie Brasco, Joe Pistone's alter ego from his days in the FBI. I am wondering if we will ever see the character Mike Galterio featured in any future novels.

I didn't care for the love story in this book at all. The story and ending seemed like typical Hollywood.

Is it me, or is this one strange idea for a book? Joe Pistone co-wrote "Donnie Brasco," a true account of his own experiences as an FBI agent inside the Mafia. Okay. But now he's written a FICTIONAL account, something that never happened, and he's made himself the main character. Sounds like a money-making venture to me.

It seems as though Joseph D. Pistone wishes to make himself the next James Bond by writing multiple novels all based on himself. Much like James Bond, some of these stories are great (My Life Undercover), and others, such as Deep Cover, are sloppy and dull. The setting in Deep Cover is in the Florida Everglades, and all of the native Floridians are, for lack of a better word, hicks: a complete 180 from the smart criminals he dealt with when infiltrating the mafia. It is unfair to expect it to be as good as the first book, but I still held Deep Cover to very high standards and was more than a little disappointed in the outcome. In my mind, Deep Cover is Die Another Day while My Life Undercover is Goldfinger.