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Mafia Prince

Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra

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Mafia Prince

By: Phillip Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
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Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history - "Little" Nicky Scarfo’s reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s - written by Scarfo’s underboss and nephew, "Crazy" Phil Leonetti.

The youngest-ever underboss at the age of 31, Leonetti was at the crux of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the 1980s when he infiltrated Atlantic City after gambling was legalized, and later turned state’s evidence against his own. His testimony directly led to the convictions of dozens of high-ranking made men including John Gotti, Vincent Gigante, and his own uncle, Nicky Scarfo - sparking the beginning of the end of La Cosa Nostra.

Just as The Godfather and Boardwalk Empire defined the early 20th century Mafia, and Wiseguy and Casino depicted the next great era through the ’70s, Mafia Prince concludes this epic genre revealing the Mafia’s violent final heyday of the 1980s straight from the horse’s mouth.

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Loved it very entertaining look into the real version of what you see in the movies.

really enjoyable look into mafia life

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While the style fell into occassional repetetiveness, Perhaps this was purposeful to give it a journalistic story quality.

Most importantly this story resonated is an authentic description by a person who fell into a complicated and painful lifestyle, too young to understand what trap he had stepped into.

When someone is a made man, the very thing that made him so potentially traps him for life.

It is an insight into the complexity that is the mafia, that attracts people to an idea of honour, which is then subverted by individuals, leaders whose weak egos lead them to drown in their lust for power or just simply slide into sociopathy.

Its a pity this tight knit society ...army, can’t turn its skills to being a force for creating safe communities, rediscovering the ideal of honour on which it was founded long ago, when it served as protector of simple people, just freed from feudal control.

What an insight this book gives!

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the length, felt that there wasn't to much rambling on. it was all relevant, from starting out in the life to the life catching up with everyone involved.

just love a true story

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Every part kept me glued to the book. Wild story and brilliant narration. This one is for mob fans and non fans alike.

The overall feeling of the story portrays the Philly mafia family under the protagonist's uncle Nicky "Little Nicky" Scarfo as a death cult. In combination with the excellent narration, you really feel immersed in the story.

Highly recommended!

Amazing Story of Mafia Hitman Turned Informant

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loved every minute of this story. A cliff hanging moment at every minute. awesome

Top quality listening

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It’s certainly an interesting insight into the underworld of crime in that era. What can be believed at least.

Unfortunately it seems like the author has not, and may never, come to appreciate the severity and brutality of his own actions and continues to see himself as honorable and good in some twisted way.

Even down to the way he views his own cooperation with law enforcement. Others who did the same as him (after he did, and all the damage that caused) he sees as lesser, as less righteous.

Considering that, at the end of the day, it is a story about a man who joined a particularly ruthless and violent crew, who rose quickly due to that ruthless violence (and also burned out quickly because of that). All the rose colored glasses reminiscing about the honorable cosa nostra that exists in his mind is almost laughable. And that’s before we get to how he went to the FBI immediately after one case was successfully prosecuted against him. And then later wrote a book about the so called “our thing” he romanticizes.

By the end it seems like hes trying to convince himself more than the reader that he really did nothing wrong and/or that he made only honorable decisions.

The palpable hate he has for his uncle reaches Fruedian levels in the epilogue too. I truly think part of that comes from a hate for himself that he sees reflected in the face of his uncle. Or at least a hate for that part of himself that he recognizes there.

If so, that’s at least some kind of poetic justice for the fact he basically got away with murder(s) and now gets to profit from the “story” that those killings gave him.

A monster who looks in the mirror and sees a prince

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