Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia

Jerry Capeci · Tom Robbins

Nov 2013 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Michael Prichard

About this audiobook

Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D'Arco's life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for four decades. Until the day he switched sides, D'Arco lived and breathed the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D'Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on mob secrets going back a hundred years. After speaking with D'Arco, the authors reveal unprecedented insights, exposing shocking secrets and troublesome truths about a city where a famous pizza parlor doubled as a Mafia center for multi-million-dollar heroin deals, where hit men carried out murders dressed as women, and where kidnapping a celebrity newsman's son was deemed appropriate revenge for the father's satirical novel. Capeci and Robbins spent hundreds of hours in conversation with D'Arco, and exhausted many hours more fleshing out his stories in this riveting narrative that takes readers behind the famous witness testimony for a comprehensive look at the Mafia in New York City.

Ratings and reviews

the most astoundingly good audio book. brilliant narration, brilliant everything in fact. written from d'arco's viewpoint. you feel it all closing in you. you see the other guys turning their backs on you, freezing you out. don't know why it was given one star. maybe it was gaspipe's people! great book, though. listened to it three times.

Best Tom and Jerry book!!!!

If you love the mob genre this is a fact filled tale

About the author

Jerry Capeci, a New York-based award-winning reporter, columnist, and author for more than four decades, has written or coauthored seven books about the Mafia, including Murder Machine and Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti.

Tom Robbins has been a reporter and columnist covering crime and politics in New York for more than thirty years, including at the Village Voice, the New York Daily News, and The New York Observer. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine and the New York Post.

Michael Prichard has recorded well over five hundred audiobooks and was named one of SmartMoney magazine's Top Ten Golden Voices. His numerous awards and accolades include an Audie Award and several AudioFile Earphones Awards.