When I picked up this book one thing popped out at me, "the mob." I am a huge fan of the HBO series The Sopranos, so when I saw "the mob" as part of the book title it immediatly got my attention. I was hoping in choosing this book that it would be some what action packed like The Sopranos are. Also on the cover of the book is "The true-life story of the only man to work for all five of New York's mafias family." If you read that on a book cover and your an action packed fanatic and that description does not interest you, well then you are not a real action packed fanatic. When I read that I automatically thought, a man who worked for all five mafia familes during a time where the mob was a real problem, that has got to have action in it.
The main character of this book, Frankie Saggio, was one of the most successful mobsters to ever live. He was smart enough to buy and sell stocks to earn his money. He would put buy a stock and then once it reached its peek he would sell it and it would basically crash. He would do this for numerous years and no one that he would buy stocks from would ask any questions about his stocks falling because they would rise so high that it was an investment they couldn't turn down. Born to the Mob gives a good look on day-to-day organized mob crime from someone who was at the highest level of it. Frankie Saggio now lives in an undisclosed location and the Witness Protection Service has changed his name for safety reasons.
-B-rich
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