Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the
Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court
in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other
high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total
of eighteen gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless
grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Painting a
vivid picture of murder, courtroom drama, family loyalties and
disloyalties, journalist Jeff Coen accurately portrays the Chicago
Outfit's cold-blooded--and sometimes incompetent--killers and their
crimes in the case that brought them down. In 1998 Frank Calabrese
Jr. volunteered to wear a wire to gather evidence against his
father, a vicious loan shark who strangled most of his victims with
a rope before slitting their throats to ensure they were dead.
Frank Jr. went after his uncle Nick as well, a calculating but
sometimes bumbling hit man who would become one of the
highest-ranking turncoats in mob history, admitting he helped
strangle, stab, shoot, and bomb victims who got in the mob's way,
and turning evidence against his brother Frank. The Chicago
courtroom took on the look and feel of a movie set as Chicago's
most colorful mobsters and their equally flamboyant attorneys
paraded through and performed: James "Jimmy Light" Marcello, the
acting head of the Chicago mob; Joey "the Clown" Lombardo, one of
Chicago's most eccentric mobsters; Paul "the Indian" Schiro; and a
former Chicago police officer, Anthony "Twan" Doyle, among others.
Re-creating events from court transcripts, police records,
interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in
court, Coen provides a riveting wide-angle view and one of the best
accounts on record of the inner workings of the Chicago syndicate
and its control over the city's streets.
General
| Imprint: |
Zephyr Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
August 2010 |
| First published: |
September 2010 |
| Authors: |
Jeff Coen
|
| Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
432 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-56976-545-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-56976-545-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781569765456 |
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