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Title: Tremendously entertaining and insightful
Review: There have been several outstanding accounts about The Mob (Pileggi's, etc.), but this book ranks among the very best. Boss of Bosses presents an unusually empathetic portrait (--for a cop-helmed book) of Mob boss Castellano. It's a full-bodied portrait of both the crooks and the lawmen pursuing them. Much credit must go to the otherwise uncredited ghostwriter Lawrence Shames, a terrific mystery novelist in his own right. This is crime non-fiction about as good as it gets.
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