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  • Gotti's Boys

  • The Mafia Crew That Killed for John Gotti
  • By: Anthony M. DeStefano
  • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
  • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (51 ratings)
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Gotti's Boys

By: Anthony M. DeStefano
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano takes you inside John Gotti's inner circle to reveal the dark hearts and violent deeds of the most remorseless and cold-blooded characters in organized crime. Men so vicious even the other mafia families were terrified of them. Meet Gotti's Boys....

  • Charles Carneglia: the ruthless junkyard dog who allegedly disposed of bodies for the mob - by dissolving them in acid then displaying their jewels. 
  • Gene Gotti: the younger Gotti brother who ran a multimillion-dollar drug smuggling ring - enraging his bosses in the Gambino family. 
  • Angelo "Quack-Quack" Ruggiero: the loose-lipped contract killer who was wire-tapped by the FBI - and dared to insult Gotti behind his back. 
  • Tony "Roach" Rampino: the hardcore stoner who looked like a cockroach - and used his gangly arms and horror-mask face to frighten his enemies. 
  • "Sammy the Bull" Gravano: the Gambino underboss who helped John Gotti execute Gambino mob boss Paul Castellano - then sang like a canary to take Gotti down. 

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Anthony M. DeStefano (P)2019 Tantor

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Not much new.....

If (like me) you've read a lot of Mafia bios before, you'll probably face the same challenge of finding a read that doesn't regurgitate the same mob folklore stories over and over.

Gottis Boys is sort of half and half....

A decent beginning (focusing on Quack Quack and his family) got my hopes up that this might be a different from the norm, but sadly this typically ended up playing out the John Gotti becomes boss story...... yet again.

If you're new to this genre, go check out 5 Families by Selwyn Raab. There's nothing in Gottis Boys really that it doesn't already cover (and a hell of a lot more for your credit! ) If you're a veteran, this is probably not going to keep you entertained long.

Good performance though, on the plus side.

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Mafia

Absolutely great listen about the teflon don and really brilliantly nurtured too. Too much for favourite parts as it was just a great mafia book.

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I love this narrator one minute a normal man next a wise guy

Very good listen the mafia is a mystical subject and this book gives and insight into a world not known to most

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Gotti

If you’re into the mafia this is the book for you. All the usual names in here. Sammy the bull etc. Enjoyed it.

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Nothing new here

The author, at the start of the book asks do we need another book on John Gotti? This book proves we do not. He brings very little to the table, quotes from better books written on the subject and skips over many pieces of key information. The only real detail the author has is on a random fishing family who witnessed a plane crash key to the story. Other than that it’s very basic.

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rehash of other books

like reading a newspaper plenty of info with little detail for wot the book was titled to be

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Well with a listen..

Good book. well researched, well written and as always well narrated by the number one audio book reader/narrator Johnny Heller.

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