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The Last Ruthless Don: Carmine Galante and the Drug Empire That Changed Organized Crime

by Vittorio Mancini
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798197993007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 152
  • Original Price: USD 19.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 191 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criminals & Outlaws

Carmine Galante was feared by rivals, watched obsessively by the FBI, and ultimately condemned by his own world. Rising from the tenements of East Harlem to the summit of the Bonanno crime family, Galante transformed organized crime through one ruthless conviction: narcotics would become the engine of modern power. While older Mafia bosses hesitated to embrace the heroin trade, Galante built an international pipeline stretching from Sicily to Montreal to New York, generating fortunes that reshaped the American underworld forever.

In The Last Ruthless Don, Vittorio Mancini reconstructs the violent rise and spectacular fall of the man many investigators considered the most dangerous Mafia boss of the twentieth century. Drawing from FBI and DEA files, courtroom testimony, homicide investigations, and the historic Pizza Connection and Commission trials, this book follows Galante's evolution from street enforcer to architect of a global narcotics empire. It examines the Sicilian "Zip" assassins he imported into America, the internal Mafia wars his ambition ignited, and the growing paranoia within the Commission as his influence expanded beyond acceptable limits.

At the center of the story is a brutal contradiction: Galante's genius strengthened organized crime even as his ambition threatened to destroy the balance that kept it alive. His murder on a Brooklyn restaurant patio in 1979 - cigar still burning between his teeth - became one of the most iconic executions in Mafia history and marked the end of one era and the beginning of another.

A deeply researched work of historical nonfiction, The Last Ruthless Don is a portrait of power without restraint, violence without apology, and the criminal empire that changed America forever.

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