Making Jack Falcone

An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family

By: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, Michael Levin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

At six-foot-four-inches and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI.

"Big Jack Falcone," as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syndicate and its illegal activities---from extortion and loan-sharking to assault and murder. The result was a string of busts and a quarter-million-dollar contract put out on his life.

Making Jack Falcone tells the incredible true story of Garcia's audacious attempt to become only the second agent (after "Donnie Brasco") to become a made man in the Mafia. Readers will join Garcia as he attends "Mob School," an intensive course of study designed to teach him everything he needs to know about the Mafia, its operations, and its attitudes. An unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of the FBI, the book also pulls no punches as Garcia reveals how sometimes the agency ran smoothly and criminals were collared according to plan, while other times tempers flared over the progess of cases.

A fascinating inside look at the struggle between law enforcement and organized crime, Making Jack Falcone sheds new light on two organizational cultures that continue to exert an unparalleled grip on the American popular imagination.

©2008 Jack Garcia (P)2008 Tantor

awesome

I had listened to this in my car through blue tooth and enjoyed every minute and was sad when it came to an end

Great story, overshadowed by a horrible, horrible narrator.

This would be an amazing book, however, the narrator make it almost unbearable. He accent sounds so incredibly fake and overdone. I still listen cause the story is great,but the narrator really ruins the overall feel of the book.

Fantastic book...I highly recommend it

It seems we live in a world where people are strictly in it for themselves, and for what THEY can get. Doesn't seem like any part our government is actually doing the job they are paid to do. If only we had more Joaquin Garcias, and if only these Garcias had the support they needed, the world would be a much better, even happier place. To you and your family, THANK YOU FOR LOOKING OUT FOR US!

Good listen

Overall the book had some great content but there was a very noticeable sense of resentment for the system and bureaucracy of the FBI. Especially about Jack’s weight and lack of praise.
Also I would have liked if Jack did the narration. Wasn’t a big fan of the narrator.

excellent

I really enjoyed this book. well done! Jack Garcia ahould have gotten a reward for his courage. bureaucratic bullshit.

Enjoyed

shows interworking of not only crime gangs but also government agencies. recommended to another person that likes true crime investigations.

A wild ride on the inside

The story itself is only out done by the person reading it. This is a literary match made in heaven.

Great Book!

If you like the underworld and many of us do, then this book is for you. Having worked for the federal government and negotiated it's many bureaucratic levels I can side with Joaquin "Jack" Garcia,and his frustrations with the F.B.I. but thank God there are agents like him on the job. We are being attacked from so many sides in this country it is good to know we can all sleep at night knowing their work helps keep us all safe and out of harms way. This book is a must read or hear in this case. Thank you Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, Michael Levin for writing it. I loved it. Frank Slater

"This guy loves to eat"

Jack Falcone is a 450 lbs undercover FBI agent. But amazingly compitent. He spends a large part of the book exposing short comings of the FBI. He's more of a blue collar guy like most americans. But the meat of the book is inside information into the post Gotti administration, day to day info into the Gambino family. He also busts North Koreans smuggling "Super Notes" Fake U.S. Dollars printed by the North Korean government. It's a juicy book.

Awesome!!!!

Great story and wonderful narration. Story is a good balance of training and actual undercover work. Narrator avoids common narration trap of overacting the parts.