Among the mobsters caught on tape:

John Stanfa, the violent, often irrational, paranoid old-school mob don battlinga new generation of savage young turks.

Rosario Bellocchi , the young Sicilian-born hitman in love with his boss’sdaughter, who would do anything to get ahead—even kill his best friend.

John Veasey, the two-hundred-pound mad dog hitman who once had to postponea hit—in order to visit his parole officer.

Drawing on four years of investigative work, and more than two thousandtaped conversations, veteran true crime journalist George Anastasia takes readersinside the world of mobsters at war, and FBI agents so close on their heels thatt hey even watched onehit unfold live through asurveillance camera.