Gaspipe by Philip Carlo

Gaspipe by Philip Carlo

The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"--concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities of drugs into New York--fueled his unstoppable rise up the ladder of organized crime. A mafioso responsible for at least fifty murders, Casso lived large, with a beautiful wife and money to burn. When the law finally caught up with him in 1994, Casso became the thing he hated most--an informer.

From his blood feud with John Gotti to his dealings with the "Mafia cops," decorated NYPD officers Lou Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, to the Windows case, which marked the beginning of the end for the New York Mob, Gaspipe is Anthony Casso's shocking story--a roller-coaster ride into an exclusive netherworld that reveals the true inner workings of the Mafia, from its inception to the present time.

Gaspipe, The Butcher, and The Night Stalker were written by Philip Carlo and follow serial killer Richard Ramirez's terrible career. Carlo grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, which has the world's greatest Mafia population. Carlo was injured in the head in a gang battle when he was 16, and while recovering, he devoured reading, experiencing the magic of books for the first time. Carlo became a great crime writer thanks to his deep knowledge of Mafia culture--their walk and talk. He died of ALS in 2010.