xvii+400pp+illus. The story of the first Godfather. Based on previously unavailable information, all the unsavoury facts of the Mob's bloody evolution from a gang of uncouth, bumbling killers to a highly organised, smoothly running corporation. The great nephew of the first Godfather, Don Guiseppe "Battista" Balsamo, discloses the savage beginnings in a group of Italian immigrants, with stories of Capone, Luciano, Genovese, Bonnano and others. Index.

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