Tommy "Karate" Pitera was not like other men in the mob. Sure he
was a made man for the Bonanno crime family. Sure he dealt drugs,
kept women, and flaunted his money. Sure he killed people. But
there was something different about him, something unhinged. There
were lots of guys in the Five Families who killed people, lots of
guys who did ghastly things, but most if not all of those killers
were afraid of man they called "Karate."
There were stories, rumors really, that floated around about
Pitera, and if even half the rumors were true, that was enough to
make people stay away from him. The rumors talked about his squeaky
high voice--Mickey Mouse with a Brooklyn accent--that didn′t fit
his large, lanky frame. They talked about the strange ways that he
killed people and the things he did when he was angry. The rumors
discussed how people had a way of disappearing when Pitera was
around, but instead of turning up dead, they didn′t turn up at all.
The rumors spoke of a secret cemetery he had somewhere in the five
boroughs, a place where the bodies of his victims would remain
forever nameless.
Jim Hunt came from a long line of law enforcement. Originally a
member of the NYPD, he joined the DEA and never looked back. Like
his father and grandfather before him, fighting crime was in his
blood, and during his storied career at the DEA he′d bagged his
share of bad guys. But nothing like what he encountered when he
first started investigating Tommy "Karate" Pitera. What started as
a routine look into a cocaine and heroin ring in Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn during the 1980s grew exponentially, as Hunt uncovered the
layers of death that surrounded Pitera. Entering into the shadowy
world of wire taps, stakeouts, and informants, Hunt managed to turn
the handful of Pitera′s closest confidants against him in his
pursuit. By the end, Hunt estimated that Pitera might have killed
as many as sixty people.
Offering the first ever detailed look at the life and crimes of
Pitera, Philip Carlo explores the man behind some of the most
horrific murders in the mob′s history and the multi-year DEA
investigation that brought him down. Getting inside the mind of
both killer and detective, Carlo details the delicate game of cat
and mouse that resulted in the conviction of a mafia killer unlike
any other. A dual tale of murder, drugs, money, and ultimately
justice, Gravesend gives us Carlo′s most frightening portrayal yet
of the depraved depths of the psychopath′s mind.
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