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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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- ISBN: 9781439141434
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- ISBN: 9781439141434
- File size: 2285 KB
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- English
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October 4, 1993
A blockbuster, this suspenseful and superbly written expose by former New York Times reporter Blum ( I Pledge Allegiance . . . The Story of the Walker Spy Family ) will surely hit the headlines. Blum chronicles the struggle from 1987 to 1992 to build a flawless case against Gambino Family boss John Gotti by the FBI's C-16 squad, a latter-day incarnation of Elliot Ness's Untouchables. Gotti appeared virtually untouchable himself after he was tried and found innocent three times for various crimes. Courageously, the electronics expert on the team was able to bug the ``Teflon Don's'' headquarters and other meeting places. Along the way, leader Bruce Mouw and his co-workers uncovered two Gotti moles--one a deputy court clerk, the other a NYPD officer assigned to Intelligence--as well as an instance of jury tampering. The case was clinched when Gotti's No. 2 man, Sammy ``The Bull'' Gravano, turned informant. Gotti was convicted and sentenced to life with no possibility of parole. First serial to New York magazine; movie rights to Columbia Pictures; paperback rights to Pocket Books. -
April 1, 2002
Former New York Times reporter Blum reveals how the FBI captured mob leader John Gotti, an investigation that lasted seven years and cost $75 million.
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