Accardo: The Genuine Godfather Mass market paperbound - 1996
by William F. Roemer
From the most decorated FBI agent in history, here's the blistering new expose of the Chicago Mafia. For 40 years, Tony "The Big Tuna" Accardo was America's most dangerous criminal. William Roemer was the first FBI agent to face him. Now he tells the whole story. Fine.
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Chicago, 1977. As usual it was a cold, blustery November.
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"A STORY THAT NO OTHER AUTHOR COULD HAVE PUT
TOGETHER . . . Roemer [is] America's most decorated FBI agent."
--Chicago Tribune
For forty years Tony Accardo was America's most dangerous criminal. He cut his teeth on the Chicago mob wars of Capone and Elliot Ness. He got his nickname "Joe Batters" for killing two men with a baseball bat. As the bodies piled up, Capone's youngest capo murdered and schemed his way to the top.
William Roemer was the first FBI agent to face Tony "The Big Tuna" Accardo. Now, Roemer tells the story that only he could tell: the deals, the hits, the double-crosses, and the power plays that reached from the Windy City to Hollywood and to New York. Drawing on secret wiretaps and inside information, ACCARDO chronicles bloodshed and mayhem for more than six decades--as Roemer duels against the most powerful don of them all. . . .
"Roemer brings the reality of organized crime home to us."
--Boston Herald
"A big, sprawled out account that serves as anecdotal history of organized crime."
--Kirkus Reviews
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- Title Accardo: The Genuine Godfather
- Author William F. Roemer
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ivy Books, New York
- Date 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780804114646 / 0804114641
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 6.85 x 4.21 x 1.06 in (17.40 x 10.69 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Organized crime - Illinois - Chicago -, Criminals - Illinois - Chicago - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96094340
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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