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(More customer reviews)It took a long time to get ahold this book. But it was worth the wait. Unlike most books on organized crime, The Sixth Family concentrates on how criminals work but also why their so powerful.
As an American living in Canada I was surprised and shocked to discover this Canadian mafia family is in the forefront of the international drug trade and has been there for fifty years. I don't think this will make American mob watchers very pleased to find there is a sophisticated mafia family that holds control over the typical American family. But the facts are there.
The authors seem to have spent years gathering information on Vito Rizzuto and members of his family. Unlike some mafia books, the Sixth family isn't about blood and bullets, although there are some murders.
This is not a quick book and requires a little bit of knowledge about the under-world. The writers delve deeply into everything from the French Connection to the Piza Connection and along the way they find the Rizzuto family at work.
I recommend this book as a good read as well as a source of research.
Connie Bryce, Toronto, Ontario
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From The Sixth Family, according to witness testimony:
BROOKLYN, MAY 5, 1981
"We were in the closet. We all had our weapons loaded. We sat there and waited for the doorbell to ring," said Salvatore Vitale, a slender New York mobster known as Good-Looking Sal. "We left the door open a smidge to look out."
The ringing of the bell at the private social club’s entrance signaled the arrival of the first of the invited guests. Vito Rizzuto crouched low, peeking out from his vantage point. Through the swelling crowd and loud chatter from tough men all accustomed to having their say, Vito kept his eyes on one man, Gerlando Sciascia, a fellow Sicilian who was a long-time Rizzuto family friend.
Breathing deeply beneath his mask, Vito watched for the secret signal that would draw him from the closet, a signal that came when Sciascia slowly ran the fingers of his lean, right hand through the silver hair on the side of his head. That simple act of preening brought mayhem to the social club and radically changed the balance of power.
"Don’t anybody move. This is a holdup," Vito said as he confronted the roomful of powerful mobsters, his words muffled by a woolen ski mask pulled down over his long, thin face. Despite those words, this was not about robbery. Nothing would be taken but three lives and the rights to an underworld throne.
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