{"product_id":"greg-scarpa-the-grim-reaper-mob-murders-betrayal-and-the-fbis-most-dangerous-informant-9798196832406","title":"Greg Scarpa, The Grim Reaper: Mob Murders, Betrayal, and the FBI's Most Dangerous Informant","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marco Bruno\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Organized Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than two decades, Gregory Scarpa Sr. lived two lives simultaneously. To the Colombo crime family, he was the Grim Reaper - a killer credited with between forty and fifty murders, a man whose name alone carried the specific authority of organized violence. To the FBI, he was something rarer and more dangerous: a Top Echelon informant, a source whose access to the family's most guarded deliberations made him one of the most valuable assets in the Bureau's organized crime program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was both of these things at the same time. For twenty years, a protected killer fed intelligence to the same institution that should have been building a case against him. And when the Colombo family tore itself apart in the civil war of the early 1990s, Scarpa was in the middle of the shooting - while his handler, Special Agent Lindley DeVecchio, allegedly shared the FBI's own investigative intelligence to help him win it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there is Mississippi. In 1964, the FBI quietly sent Scarpa south to extract - by whatever means necessary - the information that broke open the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. A mob enforcer in the service of civil rights. The moral arithmetic has never resolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreg Scarpa, The Grim Reaper\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of the most corrupted informant relationship in FBI history - a story about murder, institutional failure, and the dangerous line between intelligence and complicity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969325351063,"sku":"9798196832406","price":1719.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196832406.webp?v=1782921352","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/greg-scarpa-the-grim-reaper-mob-murders-betrayal-and-the-fbis-most-dangerous-informant-9798196832406","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}