
The Cigar
Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror
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The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob's top enforcers-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams: whack his way into controlling organized crime the world over, vowing to kill Mafia chieftans Tommy Lucchese and Carlo Gambino and take control of their mob families.
Carmine "Lilo" Galante's rise to Mafia star was infamous: hit man for the Luciano and Genovese crime families; named consigliere by Joseph Bonnano; he wiped out eight members of the Gambinos; on behalf of Mussolini he assassinated the publisher of an anti-Fascist newspaper. Galante helped orchestrate one of the largest heroin trafficking operations on record-a power move too dangerous for his rivals in the narcotics trade. The heads of the five New York families decided that the psychotic Galante had to be stopped. On July 12, 1979, finishing his lunch in a Brooklyn restaurant, Galante got what he'd dished out his whole life: a shotgun blast to the face, his trademark cigar still clenched in his teeth . . .
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Fascinating
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The author isn't your run of the mill gangster turned author and mob historian. Frank DiMatteo is no rat. He has never cooperated with the law and cares about the people he writes about, and it comes through on the page. He has a real gift for story telling. It flows from his keyboard with ease, and there's no exaggeration or revisionist history to make himself or thise around him look better. He tells it as-is, and allows you (the reader) to make the call on feelings towards the characters. I almost skipped this book after reading some of the reviews, but I've read some of his other work, and based on my experience reading Frank's stories, I purchased this title. I'm glad I did, and you will be too.
This Thing of... His???
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The book brought chills down my back.
From Bushwick
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narrator
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Great Listen!
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Great story
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highly recomanded.
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Absolutely nothing new, sounded like a very long book report or an AI generated novel. The Reader? Author? kept going back as if the person listening, might have fallen asleep while listing and needed to be brought up to speed again and again.
Felt like a tale told by someone who culled through many, many, newspaper articles and came up with an idea for a book.
Finally, the narrator should have been required to drink an expresso before beginning each "chapter."
They started out very slowly and then dribbled out altogether, sort of like literary ketchup.
Nothing new, a Lifetime TV Crime Novel
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Not what I expected
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Lazy Attempt; Awful Narrator
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