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In this dark, jagged true crime thriller, wily mob head Gregory Scarpa Sr. (alias the "Grim Reaper") secretly steals and kills under FBI protection for decades. When faced with arrest for his own crimes, he betrays his adoring son, Gregory Jr., whom he'd groomed to take his place. Taking the fall for his father out of familial respect and love, the young Scarpa endures decades of maximum security imprisonment by furnishing the feds with detailed intelligence...

Tells the story of a woman married to a hereditary prince of an ancient secret society, the Mafia.

A brilliant telecommunications inventor was held down by corporate greed and government monopolies and ended up so desperate to provide for his family he ended up working for the mafia; creating the infamous 'black box.' His unimaginable decline led his son to turn to life of crime to become the world's most notorious jewel thief.

Alternately rough and tender, hard-boiled and hilarious, Wedded to Crime is a fascinating look into the final years of the traditional mob--and the heart of a woman who lived through them. Sandy Sadowsky was only nineteen when she met nightclub owner Bernie Barton, twenty years her senior and a lifetime member of the Meyer Lansky mob. A sharp dresser with a heart of gold and a pinky ring to match, Bernie wooed Sandy with dogged nonchalance, and soon...