Full name: Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob

Author: Howard Blum Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

In the bestselling tradition of "Wiseguy" and "Boss of Bosses" -- the inside story of the fall of the "Teflon Don" The team: A handpicked squad of FBI agents -- led by a war hero determined to get the job done. The target: John Gotti, the seemingly invincible head of the richest and most powerful crime of modern-day Untouchables, the FBI's C-16 Organized Crime squad, who finally ended the cocky crime lord's reign of terror. Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI records and agents, bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Howard Blum tells the riveting and suspenseful story behind the headlines. Here is the deadly game of cat and mouse that pitted Gotti, his ruthless henchmen and his elusive law-enforcement mole against the Bureau. It is a tale of courage, murder and betrayal. From Mafia backrooms to FBI squad rooms, from the high-tech electronic invasion of Gotti's headquarters to the desperate effort to expose the mole, Gangland is more shocking than fiction -- an instant Mafia classic. Similar books: American Lightning by Howard Blum Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt Wicked Beyond Belief by Michael Bilton Low Life by Luc Sante Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid Midnight in Peking by Paul French Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan American Fire by Monica Hesse Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan Fire in a Canebrake by Laura Wexler Till Death Us Do Part by Vincent Bugliosi Casino by Nicholas Pileggi Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas Our Guys by Bernard Lefkowitz Born to Kill by T. J. English Deranged by Harold Schechter Outrage by Vincent Bugliosi