Joseph D. Pistone

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Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings.
With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.
Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," Pistone spent the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing-and sometimes participating in-the Mafia's gruesome activities while gathering enough evidence to send over 200 gangsters to jail. Pistone told his story in the 1988 book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia-a New York Times bestseller and later a feature film starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. But because of pending trials at the time of publication, many details of the alleged crimes were held back. Now, in Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Pistone for the first time reveals with great detail the horrific deeds of wiseguys Tony Mirra, "Lefty" Ruggiero, Sonny Black, and the rest of the cold-blooded Bonanno crew. Pistone puts the operation into historical perspective, detailing the timeline of Mafia trials that crippled the New York City crime family over the past 25 years. He also recounts his experiences after the operation, his time on the Hollywood set with Pacino and Depp, and other undercover operations through present-day. A tense, thrilling account of the greatest infiltration ever by a federal agent into the most brutal gang of killers in the world, Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business is the final chapter in the story of a real American hero.
Using the name of a now-dead convict, Brasco maneuvers his way into a job at the gambling club. But when “associates” of his false identity start showing up—along with the relentless Russian assassin who’s been contracted to kill him—the operation starts going south in a hurry. And Donnie Brasco is going to have to roll the bones with some very hot hands to get out alive…
Quando nel 1976 l'agente speciale dell'FBI Joseph Pistone cominciò una missione di sei mesi da infiltrato nella famiglia criminale newyorkese dei Bonanno, non aveva la minima idea di quello che ne sarebbe seguito. Fingendosi un ladro di gioielli di nome Donnie Brasco, Pistone finì per trascorrere i sei anni seguenti sotto falso nome da fidato membro della mafia, assistendo - e a volte prendendo parte in prima persona - a molte delle più feroci attività mafiose.
Pistone raccontò la sua storia nel bestseller Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia. Ma, a causa di una serie di processi ancora in corso al momento della pubblicazione, molti dettagli e parecchi elementi non poterono essere inseriti in quelle pagine.
In questo secondo libro, invece, può ricostruire con grande dovizia di particolari e senza alcuna omissione l'intera operazione, offrendoci per la prima volta un affresco agghiacciante delle violenze perpetrate dagli affiliati. Pistone inserisce quella missione nel quadro storico della lotta a Cosa Nostra negli USA e narra anche la propria vita dopo quell'impresa, i giorni sul set con Johnny Depp e Al Pacino e la continuazione del suo lavoro di agente, in un resoconto teso, brutale e mozzafiato.