Dimensions
153 x 230 x 40mm
In DEAL WITH THE DEVIL, award-winning reporter Peter Lance draws on thousands of pages of previously unreleased internal FBI memos, court transcrips, and other documents to trace the history of Colombo crime family killer Greg Scarpa Sr., known as "The Killing Machine." For years Scarpa was a Top Echelon Informant to the FBI; in forty-two years of murder and racketeering--he stopped counting after 50 homicides--he did only 30 days in jail thanks to his relationship with the Feds. Using more than 1,153 pages of heretofore secret files on Scarpa obtained by the author, DEAL WITH THE DEVIL peels back the layers on that relationship, which a trial judge later called "a deal with the devil," providing a shocking window into the FBI's conflicted, decades-long war with "the Mafia enemy."
Drawing on exclusive interviews, never-before-seen primary documents, and the same astounding capacity for understanding criminal networks that mark his investigations of al Qaeda in New York, DEAL WIT THE DEVIL is a work of eye-opening investigative journalism that reads like a Scorsese movie.
