Authors: Gene Mustain, Jerry Capeci
ISBN-13: 9780028644165, ISBN-10: 0028644166
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
He was a little-known wiseguy out of Howard Beach, Queens, who blasted his way into the public eye with the assassination of Gambino Family boss Paul Castellano in December 1985, a rubout that's the stuff of Mafia legend. Ruthless, cunning, and tougher than the streets that produced him, John Gotti seized control of the nation's most powerful crime family, beat the law on rap after rap, and became an American legend. First published in 1988 and fully revised and updated for this edition, Mob Star traces John Gotti's spectacular rise and eventual downfall after the betrayal of his closest ally, Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano. At his death, ten years after he was jailed for life and four years after he began battling cancer, John Gotti was still the biggest name in today's Mafia.
Prologue | ix | |
The Cast | xxi | |
Chronology | xxv | |
1 | Table for Six | 1 |
2 | The Nice N EZ Bug | 13 |
3 | Meet the New Boss | 21 |
4 | I Forgotti! | 29 |
5 | Blown to Bits | 41 |
6 | We're Ready for Freddy | 49 |
7 | The Rockaway Boy | 57 |
8 | Velvet Touch | 71 |
9 | Club Lewisburg | 77 |
10 | Hoodlum's Hoodlum | 83 |
11 | Making His Bones at Snoope's Bar | 91 |
12 | Dying in a State of Grace | 99 |
13 | Johnny Boy Gets His Button | 107 |
14 | The Mayor of 101st Avenue | 115 |
15 | Boy on a Minibike | 127 |
16 | Forget About This Phone | 133 |
17 | I Ain't Going Crazy No More | 145 |
18 | The Merchants of Ozone Park | 157 |
19 | Babania Madness | 171 |
20 | Four Souls on Board | 183 |
21 | On the Carpet with Big Paul | 195 |
22 | Betrayers Betrayed | 207 |
23 | The Last Stage | 221 |
24 | Let the Play Begin | 233 |
25 | Brucification | 241 |
26 | The Art of Being Mendacious | 251 |
27 | Way to Go, Mr. G! | 261 |
28 | The Fix | 273 |
29 | Teflon Don | 281 |
30 | Heroin Redux | 291 |
31 | Mulberry Street | 299 |
32 | Nettie's Place | 307 |
33 | Tickling the Wire | 317 |
34 | Invincibility Legend | 327 |
35 | Proven | 337 |
Epilogue | 349 | |
Postscript | 361 | |
Index | 363 |