GANGLAND How the FBI Broke the Mob

Hardback. 1st US edn. The riveting story of the FBI's C-16 Organized Crime Squad, a group of modern-day Untouchables who waged a grim 6yr. battle to bring down the generation's Al Capone - John Gotti. Drawing on his unprecedented access to FBI records and the FBI agents themselves, the author goes behind the scenes and the back rooms of the mob and the squad rooms of the FBI to reveal precisely how Gotti's headquarters was bugged, how informants were turned, and how the mole was brought to light. It is a story of small victories and major setbacks, or bureaucratic bungling and bitter inter-agency rivalries that prolonged Gotti's reign of terror, and of the patience and persistence that finally toppled him from his throne: a man trapped by his own words. With a Note on Sources. 349pp. lge 8vo. h/back. With tiny label to fpd o/w Nr. F. in F. protected dw.