The Last Gangster by George Anastasia

The Last Gangster by George Anastasia

As a cop Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story -- the story of the last days of the Philadelphia mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all.

For thirty-five years Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six foot-tall, 300-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking and prostitution to the extortion of millions from Atlantic City. By the 1990s, Previte, an old-school workhorse, found himself answering to younger mob bosses like "Skinny Joey" Merlina. Spoiled, cocky, and careless, the young, up-and-coming gangsters were hungry for the media's attention and the public's recognition. Gone were the days of loyalty and discretion.

Convinced that the honor of the "business" was over, Previte became the FBI's secret weapon in an intense and highly personalized war on the Philadelphia mob. Operating with the same guile, wit, and stone-cold bravado that had made him a force in the underworld, and armed with only a wiretap, Previte recorded it all: the murder, the mayhem, and the betrayal.In The Last Gangster, George Anastasia -- the critically acclaimed author of Blood and Honor and The Goodfella Tapes -- tells Previte's story for the first time. Unflinching and enthralling, The Last Gangster is the true story of how the once monolithic, highly organized, powerful, and secretive Cosa Nostra was defeated by its own hand.

Glen Macnow has been a popular talk-radio host for over fourteen years on Philadelphia's 610-AM WIP, where he currently hosts the midday sports and entertainment show daily from 10am-2pm, which includes the weekly feature, The Movie Club for Men. He is the author of the acclaimed book, The Ultimate Book of Sports Movies, as well as five other successful titles. He lives outside Philadelphia, PA.

George Anastasia is one of America's foremost experts on organized crime. A crime reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer for decades, he has written five books about the mob, including Blood & Honor, which Pullitzer Prize-winning author Jimmy Breslin called the best gangster book ever written. Anastasia's work also appears in the Village Voice, Playboy, and others, and he is the co-host of The Crime Guys, a call-in radio show on Philadelphia's 1210-AM Sundays at 9 pm. He lives outside Philadelphia.

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ISBN 13	9780060544225
ISBN 10	0060544228
Title	The Last Gangster
Author	George Anastasia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harpercollins
Year published	2004-03-16
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.