Joe Pistone Boeken

The story you thought you knew was only the beginning

Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, "connected guys," captains and godfathers. Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings. With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.

In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia. Only able to visit his young family once every few months, Pistone - under the alias Donnie Brasco - ate, drank, partied, worked and sometimes killed with the wiseguys. He got so close that his Mafia partner, Lefty Ruggiero, asked him to officiate as best man at his wedding. Pistone's eventual testimony, in such spectacular prosecutions as 'the Pizza Connection' and 'the Mafia Commission' resulted in more than 200 indictments and 100 convictions of members of organised crime.

Born into a powerful mob family, Salvatore “Bill” Bonanno was privy to a private world that existed just outside the law for decades in America—a world ruled by the tenets of loyalty, secrecy, brotherhood, and survival at any cost: the Mafia. The son of Joe Bonanno—the Godfather-like head of one of the original five New york Crime Families—Bill Bonanno came of age in the Golden Age of the Mafia. In this fascinating final testament he ushers readers into that cloistered world, from its origins in medieval Sicilian and Italian history to its rise, tumultuous peak, and precipitous fall in America. Told from the inside—and complete with rare unpublished photographs of candid moments, major players, rituals, and ceremonies—The Last Testament of Bill Bonanno is the ultimate insider’s final word on one of the most secretive and misunderstood phenomena of our time.

In a novel that draws on their own amazing insider stories, former FBI undercover agent Pistone (aka Donnie Brasco) and Mafia boss Bonnano unleash a wild, all-too-true tale of a war raging on the street of New York.

Stovky pisatelů se pokoušely zachytit život uvnitř zločinecké organizace, nikdo však dosud neměl možnost pohledu zvnitřku, aby napsal knihu, jako je tato. Bývalý agent FBI v utajení Joe Pistone (jako Donnie Brasco) a mafiánský korunní princ Bill Bonanno se pustili ve svém románu, který čerpá z jejich vlastních jedinečných osobních zážitků, do divokého, někdy až příliš naturalistického líčení války, jaká zuřila v ulicích New Yorku, a je k prasknutí nabité postavami a okamžiky tak živými, že vás až mrazí. Zachycení světa organizovaného zločinu během výnosných osmdesátých let minulého století díky spolupráci Pistoneho a Bonanna, která je sice ve své podstatě zavrženíhodná, je tak úžasně autentické, jak to jen je možné.

FBI-Agent Joseph D. Pistone schleicht sich als Donnie Brasco in die Mafia ein und lebt fortan in ständiger Angst, seine Familie nur unter höchsten Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu sehen. Die Situation eskaliert, als er einen Mordauftrag erhält.