Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal
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An epic story of crime in the spirit of Goodfellas and Donnie Brasco, Mafia Son is the tale of a sociopathic mafia killer and the son he betrayed. Publishers Weekly Stressing the elements of irony and malice, Harmon (coauthor, Elvis and Me) sidesteps the usual Mob yarn to tell the somber, dark story of a coldhearted Mafia chieftain and his obedient son, who takes the fall for his father out of familial love and respect. Wily mob head Gregory Scarpa Sr., with a 50-man crew in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, scammed, stole and killed under FBI protection starting in the 1960s, informing against hundreds of gangsters and crooked lawyers for decades. But when faced with arrest for his crimes, the elder Scarpa betrays his adoring son, Gregory Jr., whom he'd groomed to take his place. Convicted for racketeering, the young Scarpa does a long stretch in a federal maximum security prison, where in 1998 he overhears terrorist schemes to attack America from a prisoner named Ramzi Yousef. But his words are discounted until the September 11 attacks. Harmon, a very capable writer, gets inside the heads of the diabolical father and the submissive son (who is still in prison) in this sinister tale of bullets and betrayal. A disturbing, jagged true-crime thriller worthy of prime Hammett, Chandler or Puzo. (May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Preface xi1 Supermax Prison: The Last Worst Place 12 Wiseguy 73 Top Echelon Informant 184 Blind Rage 265 The Education of a Wiseguy 336 The Princess of Bensonhurst 407 Scarpa's Mistress 498 Mississippi Burning 579 Married to Mob 6510 Murder, Inc. 7311 The Goodfella Life 7812 Ménage à Trois 8413 Fatherly Love 9114 The Hitman and the G-Man 9515 Dr. Scholnick and the Beauty Queen 10216 Crazy Love 10817 The Death of Donnie Somma 11518 Bad Blood 11919 Where Have You Gone, Joe Brewster? 12420 Sins of the Father 12821 RICO Act 13522 Who Killed Patrick Porco? 14123 The Colombo Crime Family War 14524 The Bullet He Couldn't Duck 15125 One-Eyed Greg 15726 Dementia 16427 The Last Days of the Grim Reaper 16828 Internal Investigation 17229 The Sins of the Son 17630 The Mobster and the Terrorist 18231 The Son Goes Down 19232 The Tomb 19733 The Scarpa Intelligence 20334 Gregory Scarpa and the Oklahoma City Bomber 20935 The People Against DeVecchio 22036 Assault 22437 Say Goodbye to ADMAX 22938 DeVecchio On Trial 23639 Dead Man Talking 248Postscript 250Acknowledgments 255Index 257
