4.0
informative slow-paced

 This book is about Joseph "Big Joey" Massino, a member of the Bonanno crime family. Massino really began his career under Rusty Rastelli as a truck hijacker. He arranged several murders, including three captains who were in rebellion and his rival. He was brought in on a RICO case, where his brother in law turned on him and testified for the State. Massino himself became the first boss of one of the New York organized crime families to turn witness for the government as well. Another interesting fact is that Massino and his subordinates were the ones who accepted Donnie Brasco into their gang, though he turned out to be Joseph Pistone, an FBI agent. I never realized until I read this book. I picked it up on Audible with my credits, simply because I like a mafia book and I did not own this one. It was really interesting learning about some of these figures whose names were not quite as familiar to me as some of the others. I know the least about the Bonanno crime family figures, so it was worth the credit I spent.