A real-life goodfella collaborating on a fictional thriller about
organized crime with the undercover cop who spent six years
penetrating the goodfella's family? Fuhgeddaboudit! But that's
precisely what we've got here: ex-mob boss Bill Bonanno, son of the
legendary Joe Bonanno (shades of Marlon Brando in The Godfather),
and former FBI undercover agent Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp in Donnie
Brasco) are linked together as the unlikeliest of odd couples (a la
Hatfield and McCoy). The fruit of their labor, however, turns out
to be the very model of a high-octane page-turner, the kind so
often promised and so infrequently delivered. It's the characters,
reader-people you may not like but whose reality you'll hesitate to
doubt and whose vagaries won't bore you even for a New York minute.
On law enforcement's side are Laura Russo and Connor O'Brien, young
and savvy FBI agents. Dedicated as all get-out they are, but they
may be falling in love, a condition they entertainingly struggle
against. A matter of professionalism. On the Mafioso side is that
elegant wiseguy Bobby (Blue Eyes) San Filippo, smart enough to have
been a successful whatever were he not-and he knows it-"an
excitement junkie." Russo and O'Brien are part of an FBI
surveillance team concerned with the unsavory doings of the
Freemont Avenue Social club, which has been thoroughly bugged.
Surprisingly, events soon involve the disappearance of a Columbia
University Slavic Studies professor, which in turn signals the
appearance of new hoods in the 'hood, the Russian wiseguys. Bobby
Blue Eyes hates them bitterly, with cause, while Russo and O'Brien
have their own Russian ax to grind. A temporary alliance leads to a
denouement in the O.K. Corral tradition, though buckets bloodier.
Bonanno and Pistone: a pairing made in bookseller heaven. (Kirkus
Reviews)
In a collaboration between the former head of the Bonanno crime
family and a former undercover FBI special agent, a member of the
mafia and a police officer who has infiltrated its family embark on
a high-stakes adventure from alternating perspectives. 100,000
first printing.
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