MAFIA WIFE. My Story of Love, Murder, and Madness

Hardback. The spellbinding, explosive memoir by Lynda Milito, wife of Louie Milito, a Capo in New York's most powerful and notorious Mafia family, the Gambinos, in which she shares an intimate portrayal of living inside the dangerous world of the Mafia. She confesses to being attracted to the danger and headlines of being with a powerful man, and explores the searing pain of child molestation and spousal abuse, life-threatening bouts with mental illness, and strained relationships with her children. In exposing the unadulterated truth about the mob, Lynda divulges what details she knows about Louie's criminal enterprises and the blind eye she turned, year after year, to the bloood on his hands. It was only after his death, and 22yrs. of marriage, that Lynda Milito is finally talking. A blindingly honest survival story, presenting an astonishing and groundbreaking perspective on the world of the Mafia, depicting with uncommon lucidity the merciless heritage of true love wed to true crime. Illus. 290pp. 8vo. With small, plain white label to fpd, o/w F. in f. dw.