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Thoroughly absorbing true-life adventure.

Newsday

The tension builds with machine-gun
rapidity ... the suspense of a fictional
mystery yarn but the chilling ring of
reality.... Joseph D. Pistone is a true
American hero!

VirginianPilot

Excellent ... for a view of how the Mafia operates, none can match Joe Pistone!

SeattlePost-Intelligencer

Truly exciting.... so skillfully written its worth your time.

PalmSprings Desert Sun

Oozes with names ... and plenty of behind-the-social-club-door gossip.

NewYork Daily News

Unprecedented ... a chilling chronicle of undercover work in the Mafia.

UPI

A penetrating look into the Mafia inner circle ... real-life drama.

DetroitNews

What its really like ... fascinating ... frightening ... daring.

FortWorth Evening Telegram

Compelling, gripping, revealing ... raw, hard-hitting nonfiction at its best.

TorontoStar

Immense!y satisfying!

OaklandPress

Chilling ... not since Nicholas Pileggis Wiseguy has the day-to-day life of the Mafia been so entertainingly captured.

BuffaloNews

New ground is broken! ... There are few
ways, short of participating in it, that
youll get a better look at the business of
crime than by reading Pistones
recollections of his life in it.

CantonRepository

An unforgettable eyewitness account!

RollaNews

Fascinating!

DaytonNewslJournal Herald

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First Signet Printing, January 1989

Copyright Joseph D. Pistone, 1987

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To my wife and children, whom I love dearly.
To both sets of parents, brothers and sisters.
To Michael, Sheila, Janie, Bob F., Howard and Gail,
and Don and PatriciaThank you.

To the FBI undercover agents, who are the best at
what they do.
To the street agents, who make the FBI the best
investigative agency in the world.
To the U.S. Justice Department Strike Force attorneys
in Tampa, Milwaukee, and especially the Southern
District of New York.

J.D.P.

THE WHIRLWIND

I looked down from the witness stand at five Mafia defendants, five rows of press, and a standing- room-only courtroom filled with more than 300 people. It was an incredible sight to me. This was just the first mob trial, the first group of wiseguy defendants.

Lefty Guns Ruggierro was shaking his head. So were Boobie Cerasani and Nicky Santora and Mr. Fish Rabito and Boots Tomasulo. It was as if these defendants couldnt believe what was taking place either. Lefty had told his lawyer, Hell never go against us. Up until my appearance on the stand, apparently he refused to believe that I was a special agent of the FBI and not his partner in the Mafia.

But two other defendants had already pleaded guilty before the trial. And later in his jail cell, between court appearances, Lefty had become a believer. He told his cell mate, Ill get that motherfucker Donnie if its the last thing I do.

There was a Mafia hit contract out on me. FBI agents were guarding me twenty-four hours a day.

Two days before I took the stand to testify, before my real name was revealed, we got word from an informant in Buffalo, New York, that the mob was going to go after my family.

The chief prosecutor for this case was Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Jones. The most powerful Mafia boss, the man who then sat at the head of the Mafia Commission, the boss of bosses, was Big Paul Castellano of the Gambino family. I told Barbara that I wanted to go to Castellano myself and tell him this: If anybody touches my wife or kids, I will go after you personally. I will kill you myself. I said I would do that only if it wouldnt jeopardize the cases. I cant tell you who and who not to talk to, she said.

She was being tolerant and understanding. But I figured it might hurt the cases, so I held off and alerted some people and stayed very watchful.

In the middle of the courtroom, half hidden in the crowd, a Bonanno Mafia family associate I had seen around Little Italy but whose name I didnt know aimed his hand like a pistol and silently pulled the imaginary trigger with his forefinger. At a break in the trial, agents protecting me got the guy in the hallway and talked to him. He never came back.

I had been undercover inside the Mafia for six years. All that time, no more than a handful of people in the world knew who I was in both real life and in the Mafia. Now there was this explosion in the media.

There were huge headlines in the press, some of them covering the front pages: G-MAN CONNED THE MOB FOR SIX YRS; SECRET AGENT BARES MOB DEALS; MAN WHO CONNED THE MOB; FBI UNCOVERS MOB SUPERAGENT; BRASCO FACES GRILLING TODAY. Newsweek had a full page entitled, I Was a Mobster for the FBI. They also indicated the threats: MAFIA SEEKS REVENGE ON DARING INFILTRATOR; MOB IS TRACKING FBI-ER WHO FOOLED BONANNO FAMILY.

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