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PublisherChicago Review Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101556527810

ISBN-139781556527814

eBay Product ID (ePID)71140953

Product Key Features

Book TitleFamily Secrets : the Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

TopicMurder / General, General, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws, Legal History

IllustratorYes

GenreLaw, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJeff Coen

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight25.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-040135

Reviews"[An] authoritative account . . . indispensable to truly knowing how Chicago works." — Chicago Tribune, "(An) episodic telling . . . a useful and lucid history . . . [the book] teems with disturbing local color." —Gaper's Block, "[An] authoritative account . . . indispensable to truly knowing how Chicago works." -Chicago Tribune, "[An] authoritative account . . . indispensable to truly knowing how Chicago works." -- Chicago Tribune, "A telling look inside the twisted world of organized crime, sure to interest those who follow mob mayhem." --Kirkus Reviews, "(An) episodic telling . . . a useful and lucid history . . . [the book] teems with disturbing local color." --Gaper's Block, "The book reads like a fast paced crime thriller and, indeed, though it is nonfiction, it makes for fascinating reading." - The Times, "A telling look inside the twisted world of organized crime, sure to interest those who follow mob mayhem." -Kirkus Reviews, "Coen's narrative is compelling even when covering materials where we already know the trial's outcome and gives the participants--from lawyers to prosecutors to defendents--a rich, full rendering which is no easy feat." --Chicagoist.com, "(An) episodic telling . . . a useful and lucid history . . . [the book] teems with disturbing local color." -Gaper's Block, "A telling look inside the twisted world of organized crime, sure to interest those who follow mob mayhem." —Kirkus Reviews, "Painting a vivid picture . . . riveting . . . one of the best accounts on record." -TheChicagoSyndicate.com, "Painting a vivid picture . . . riveting . . . one of the best accounts on record." --TheChicagoSyndicate.com, "Coen's narrative is compelling even when covering materials where we already know the trial's outcome and gives the participants-from lawyers to prosecutors to defendents-a rich, full rendering which is no easy feat." -Chicagoist.com, "Painting a vivid picture . . . riveting . . . one of the best accounts on record." —TheChicagoSyndicate.com, "The book reads like a fast paced crime thriller and, indeed, though it is nonfiction, it makes for fascinating reading." — The Times, "The book reads like a fast paced crime thriller and, indeed, though it is nonfiction, it makes for fascinating reading." -- The Times, "The book reads like a fast paced crime thriller and, indeed, though it is nonfiction, it makes for fascinating reading." --The Times, "The book reads like a fast paced crime thriller and, indeed, though it is nonfiction, it makes for fascinating reading." -The Times, "[An] authoritative account . . . indispensable to truly knowing how Chicago works." - Chicago Tribune, "Coen's narrative is compelling even when covering materials where we already know the trial's outcome and gives the participants—from lawyers to prosecutors to defendents—a rich, full rendering which is no easy feat." —Chicagoist.com

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal364.152/30977311

SynopsisEven in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of eighteen gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Painting a vivid picture of murder, courtroom drama, family loyalties and disloyalties, journalist Jeff Coen accurately portrays the Chicago Outfit's cold-blooded--and sometimes incompetent--killers and their crimes in the case that brought them down. In 1998 Frank Calabrese Jr. volunteered to wear a wire to gather evidence against his father, a vicious loan shark who strangled most of his victims with a rope before slitting their throats to ensure they were dead. Frank Jr. went after his uncle Nick as well, a calculating but sometimes bumbling hit man who would become one of the highest-ranking turncoats in mob history, admitting he helped strangle, stab, shoot, and bomb victims who got in the mob's way, and turning evidence against his brother Frank. The Chicago courtroom took on the look and feel of a movie set as Chicago's most colorful mobsters and their equally flamboyant attorneys paraded through and performed: James "Jimmy Light" Marcello, the acting head of the Chicago mob; Joey "the Clown" Lombardo, one of Chicago's most eccentric mobsters; Paul "the Indian" Schiro; and a former Chicago police officer, Anthony "Twan" Doyle, among others. Re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court, Coen provides a riveting wide-angle view and one of the best accounts on record of the inner workings of the Chicago syndicate and its control over the city's streets.

LC Classification NumberHV6452.I32O874 2009