Five Families

The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

De: Selwyn Raab

Narrado por: Paul Costanzo

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits. A 20-year assault against the five families in particular blossomed into the most successful law enforcement campaign of the last century.

Selwyn Raab's Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's premier dons, from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and more. The book also brings the listener right up to the possible resurgence of the Mafia as the FBI and local law enforcement agencies turn their attention to homeland security and away from organized crime.

©2005 Selwyn Raab (P)2015 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This masterpiece stands an excellent chance of becoming a bestseller with crossover appeal beyond devoted watchers of The Sopranos." ( Publishers Weekly)

Great book

If you love the mob is this a great book for you covers a lot

Very informative

I loved this book. Incredibly informative. I thought this was going to be a book that painted Cosa Nostra in a better light, much like the GodFather movies or really any other Mobster movie, but it definitely did not. There arent a ton of books out there that straight up tell you that mobsters are bad guys. Dont fall for the Hollywood tricks. Once I started it, I couldn't stop.

Good material narration is annoying at times

why do some narrators way over pronounce certain words? I will be hearing this narrator say "Boar-got-ah" in my nightmares

one of the BEST mafia books out there

gives good insight into the history of the mob past to almost present day.

The Best book

This is the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to. There isn’t a boring part of it.