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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You wont fall asleep to this one !!,
By "joesiniscalchi" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mob Over Miami (Paperback)
This is the 1st book I read in 2 days. No Joke. I couldn't put it down. I even told my friends I wasn't in the mood to go hang out just to read it. This book is an easy read and worth the money. Get it if you are interested in true life crime stories. You'll enjoy it. To the author, all I have to say is you picked a great story for your first book. You hit the jackpot with this one. "Bravooo"
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Mob" tells it like it was,
By Tony Miros (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mob Over Miami (Paperback)
Michele McPhee's tell-all book "Mob Over Miami" not only takes it's readers into the seedy underworld of the NYC mafia, but paints an exact picture of life in South Beach when Paciello was club king. As a person who knew Chris and experienced that star-studded era first hand, I can tell you that the book has captured the Chris we knew and the shock that we felt after his criminal past brought this charismatic, handsome figure down. I great read from beginning to end!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Ascent of Human Garbage,
By buddyhead (Taxachusetts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mob Over Miami (Paperback)
Chris Paciello's rise to stardom represents everything that is wrong with this country's blind celebrity worship. A shiftless thug with no legitimate accomplishments to his name bludgeons his way to nightclub fame in Miami, destroying lives along the way and exacting a huge toll on society.
Paciello and his buddies were gangster Staten Island wannabes with none of the intelligence or style of any of the wise guys they emulated from several generations earlier. Mob Over Miami is rampant with tales of awkward shootings in broad daylight, conspicuous firebombing of competitor nightclubs, and fights that more often than not were the equivalent of sucker punching a deaf and blind man. What a fake Paciello was: his muscles were fake (he was a steroid abuser); his Italian name and heritage were fake (he's German); and, most flagrantly, his business acumen was fake and earned at the barrel of a gun. Still, those things didn't stop lowlifes like Madonna, Ingrid Casares, and Niki Taylor from their abject worship, even when Paciello's criminal past was impossible to ignore (e.g., he was part of a botched burglary attempt that left a housewife answering the door shot dead in her own home). The only good thing to come out of these graceless accounts of criminal ineptitude is when these worms tuned on one another or, better yet, rubbed one another out (e.g., Paulie Gulino). Unfortunately, Paciello sang quickly and loudly enough to authorities to evade punishment, and is allegedly in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Michelle McPhee did a fabulous job of making this story entertaining while somehow giving her subjects as much dignity as she could, given what she had to work with. Mob Over Miami is nowhere nearly as tabloid-ready as it probably deserves to be. It's easy to see that the author was passionate about her subject matter, and she wove a riveting tale that made you forget that Paciello is more Joey Buttafucco than John Gotti. She's a tough New Yorker, too, which lends the tale a healthy dose of credibility and flair.
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