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The Last Gangster: From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte no dc

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ISBN
9780060544225
Book Title
Last Gangster : From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2004
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
George Anastasia
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Women, Sociology / General, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060544228
ISBN-13
9780060544225
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5949822

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Gangster : From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Sociology / General, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Author
George Anastasia
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
LCCN
2003-068750
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
364.1/06/0974811
Synopsis
As a cop Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story -- the story of the last days of the Philadelphia mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. For thirty-five years Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six foot-tall, 300-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking and prostitution to the extortion of millions from Atlantic City. By the 1990s, Previte, an old-school workhorse, found himself answering to younger mob bosses like "Skinny Joey" Merlina. Spoiled, cocky, and careless, the young, up-and-coming gangsters were hungry for the media's attention and the public's recognition. Gone were the days of loyalty and discretion. Convinced that the honor of the "business" was over, Previte became the FBI's secret weapon in an intense and highly personalized war on the Philadelphia mob. Operating with the same guile, wit, and stone-cold bravado that had made him a force in the underworld, and armed with only a wiretap, Previte recorded it all: the murder, the mayhem, and the betrayal.In The Last Gangster , George Anastasia -- the critically acclaimed author of Blood and Honor and The Goodfella Tapes -- tells Previte's story for the first time. Unflinching and enthralling, The Last Gangster is the true story of how the once monolithic, highly organized, powerful, and secretive Cosa Nostra was defeated by its own hand., As a cop Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story -- the story of the last days of the Philadelphia mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. For thirty-five years Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six foot-tall, 300-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking and prostitution to the extortion of millions from Atlantic City. By the 1990s, Previte, an old-school workhorse, found himself answering to younger mob bosses like "Skinny Joey" Merlina. Spoiled, cocky, and careless, the young, up-and-coming gangsters were hungry for the media's attention and the public's recognition. Gone were the days of loyalty and discretion. Convinced that the honor of the "business" was over, Previte became the FBI's secret weapon in an intense and highly personalized war on the Philadelphia mob. Operating with the same guile, wit, and stone-cold bravado that had made him a force in the underworld, and armed with only a wiretap, Previte recorded it all: the murder, the mayhem, and the betrayal.In The Last Gangster, George Anastasia -- the critically acclaimed author of Blood and Honor and The Goodfella Tapes -- tells Previte's story for the first time. Unflinching and enthralling, The Last Gangster is the true story of how the once monolithic, highly organized, powerful, and secretive Cosa Nostra was defeated by its own hand.
LC Classification Number
HV6452.P4M34258 2004

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