Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob--The Mafia's Most Violent Family A prime target for hit men to this day, Caramandi continues to survive only through the government's Witness Protection Program. Blunt and unsparing, it is a first-hand account of murder, money, and corruption told by wiseguy-turned-witnes
| TITLE | : | Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob--The Mafia's Most Violent Family |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.65 (566 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0940159864 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 368 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2003-10-01 |
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Here is the critically acclaimed inside story, now in an expanded edition, about the rise and fall of Philadelphia's notorious Scarfo organization. Blunt and unsparing, it is a first-hand account of murder, money, and corruption told by wiseguy-turned-witness Nick Caramandi, whose testimony put Nicky Scarfo and many of his associates behind bars for the rest of their lives. A prime target for hit men to this day, Caramandi continues to survive only through the government's Witness Protection Program. In this updated edition of Blood and Honor, author George Anastasia picks up the story where he left off, filling us in on the fates of all the characters--major and minor--in recent years.
Editorial : From Library Journal The violent rise and precipitous fall of the Philadelphia/Atlantic City Mafia family led by the bloodthirsty Nicky Scarfo has received extensive coverage in Joseph Salerno and Stephen J. Rivele's The Plumber ( LJ 1/90), Donald W. Cox's Mafia Wipeout ( LJ 2/15/90), and Frank Friel and John Guinther's Breaking the Mob ( LJ 6/15/90). Journalist Anastasia's riveting account is based primarily on his interviews with Scarfo associate Nick Caramandi, a confessed murderer and extortionist-turned-government witness who helped convict the entire Scarfo hierarchy. His story rings true, and it is one of treachery and viciousness, all blood and no honor. Easily the best of the Scarfo mob books, it is recommended for organized crime collections.-Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., DavisCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Nausicaa and Miyazaki fans will find this book to be a nice collectible.
(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. But then again, if I have known the serving sizes were so large, I probably wouldn't have purchase the cookbook.. For example, I do not think one should broadly suggest doing gua sha or cupping on the face, as the author suggests, unless the practitioner is well trained in those modalities. He never complains about reduced calorie wheat bread because he's so excited about the amount of lunch meat he can have. Yoga nidra is a deeply restful, meditative state. Kudos to Al Ulrich for making our hobby not so complicated. But that is really nit picky.
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