Tales from the American Mob

The men and women who walked the perilous line of life and death within La Cosa Nostra tell their personal stories. They were witness to a world where survival meant deceit, murder and racketeering. The United States was a different country at the height of the mafia. From Donnie Brasco to John Gotti, the tales from Philadelphia and Queens show the gruesome nature of an underworld so marred in deception and brutality, its legends live on in infamy.