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ALSO BY LARRY MCSHANE
Cops Under Fire
Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LARRY MCSHANE is a thirty-five-year veteran city reporter currently with the New York Daily News. The award-winning Seton Hall University graduate was a two-time AP New York State Staffer of the Year. He is the author of Cops Under Fire and the upcoming Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante. You can sign up for email updates here.
DAN PEARSON is the executive producer of Discovery’s I Married a Mobster and has been an entertainment-industry veteran for over twenty years. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Cast of Characters
Epigraphs
Prologue: Christmas Day 1973
1. A Sit-Down with the Boss
2. Kids in Philly
3. Love and Devotion
4. New York, New York
5. The Rise of the Docile Don
6. Mob Heavyweights
7. Doing the Work
8. Where the Sand Is Turnin’ to Gold
9. An Irish Wake
10. The Razor’s Edge
11. Union Sundown
13. Meeting Mr. Stanfa
14. Something’s Burning
15. Angelo Bruno, What Has Happened to You?
16. Et Tu, Tony Bananas?
17. The Wake
18. Rise of the Chicken Man
19. They Blew Up the Chicken Man
20. Life in Lewisburg
21. Mr. Natale Goes to Washington
22. A Mafia Prince
23. Stanfa Redux
24. A Marriage of Mob-Style Convenience
25. Don’t Call It a Comeback
26. Where Did It All Go Wrong?
27. The Big Payback
Epilogue: Last Words
Postscript
Photos
Index
Also by Larry McShane
Copyright
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Photos courtesy of Ralph Natale and Dan Pearson.
Cover design by Lisa Pompilio
Cover photograph: Ralph Natale © Kyle Cassidy
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First Edition: March 2017