For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life

Albert DeMeo

Dec 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Andrew J. Andersen

About this audiobook

Al DeMeo will never forget the day in 1992 when a coworker taunted him with a copy of the hot new book Murder Machine, chronicling the horrific criminal life of DeMeo's father, Roy, the head of the most deadly gang in organized crime. The moment sent DeMeo into a psychological tailspin: How could he have spent his life looking up to, and loving, a vicious killer? For the Sins of My Father recounts the chilling rise and fall of the man who led the Gambino family's most fearsome killers and thieves, through the eyes of a son who had never known any other kind of life. Coming of age in an opulent Long Island house where money is abundant but its source is unclear, Al becomes Roy's confidant, sent to call in loans at age fourteen and gradually coming to understand his father's job description-loan shark, car thief, porn purveyor and, above all, murderer. But when Al is seventeen, Roy's body is found in the trunk of a car, a gangland slaying that places Al between federal prosecutors seeking his testimony and a mob crew determined to keep him quiet. With the implacable narrative drive of a thriller and the power of a painfully honest memoir, For the Sins of My Father presents a startling and unprecedented perspective on the underworld of organized crime, exposing for the first time the cruel legacy of a Mafia life.

Ratings and reviews

kept my attention couldn't wait to hear the next chapter

About the author

Born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island, Albert DeMeo lived in suburban New York. The psychological torment of the sins of his father drove Al to take his own life in 2017.

Andrew J. Andersen was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating high school, he received a BA in theater from Young Harris College in North Georgia, and then settled down in Brookhaven, Georgia, with his college sweetheart. He's been working in theater, film, and voice-over ever since.