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Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss | 
 enlarge | Author: Philip Carlo
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 18870
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 1.7
ISBN: 0061429848
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1092
EAN: 9780061429842
ASIN: 0061429848
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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p Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, the head of a mob family has granted complete and total access to a journalist. Casso has given iNew York Times/i bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. This is his shocking story. /p p From birth, Anthony Casso's mob life was preordained. Michael Casso introduced his young son around South Brooklyn's social clubs, where "men of honor" did business by shaking pinkie-ringed hands#8212;hands equally at home pilfering stolen goods from the Brooklyn docks or gripping the cold steel of a silenced pistol. Young Anthony watched and listened and decided that he would devote his life to crime. /p p Casso would prove his talent for "earning," concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring into New York vast quantities of cocaine, marijuana, and heroin. Casso also had an uncanny ability to work with the other Mafia families, and he forged unusually strong ties with the Russian mob. By the time Casso took the reins of the Lucchese family, he was a seasoned boss, a very dangerous man. /p p It was a great life#8212;Casso and his beautiful wife, Lillian, had money to burn; Casso and his crew brought in so much cash that he had dozens of large safe-deposit boxes filled with bricks of hundred-dollar bills. But the law finally caught up with him in his New Jersey safe house in 1994. Rather than stoically face the music like the old-time mafiosi he revered, Casso became the thing he most hated#8212;a rat. It broke his family's heart and made the once feared and revered mobster an object of scorn and disgust among his former friends. For it turned out that a lifetime of street smarts completely failed him in dealing with a group even more cunning and ruthless than the Mafia#8212;the U.S. government. /p p Detailing Casso's feud with John Gotti and their attempts to kill each other, the "Windows Case" that led to the beginning of the end for the mob in New York, and Casso's dealings with decorated NYPD officers Lou Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa#8212;the "Mafia cops"#8212;iGaspipe/i is the inside story of one man's rise and fall, mirroring the rise and fall of a way of life, a roller-coaster ride into a netherworld few outsiders have ever dared to enter. /p
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 Too many errors November 29, 2008
Marcellus (Tejas)
This book has way too many factual errors. It reads more like a blend of fact and fiction. Many of the things Carlo writes contradict with FBI reports, other informants, and wiretap recordings. The top experts on the Mafia, like Jerry Capeci and Selwyn Raab, would laugh at the bologna in Carlo's books.
 Can't-put-it-down New York mob history November 20, 2008
J. Calhoun (Vail, Colorado)
Philip Carlo tells a compelling story that is at the heart of twentieth century New York City: the mob-controlled docks and neighborhoods. Having access to some incredible sources, Carlo takes the reader through a behind the scenes journey of mob boss Anthony Casso that culminates with the end of the "handshake, you've-got-my-word," LCN. Carlo, who keeps the reader on edge for the entire read, does a masterful job of explaining why 'hits" and other events occurred and the mindset of the men involved. If you want one volume that seemingly puts a lot of the pieces together, Gaspipe is a must read!!
gaspipe October 24, 2008
Don Muccigrosso Sr. (POLSON, MT United States)
this is one of the most frightening books i have ever read .to know this mayhem and murder goes on right around us.its inconceivible that such violent killers can be so gentle and devoted to their personal families br /go figure i cant. br /there is so much love in them for the family yet if you are on the wrong side of them boom you're gone. br /i really enjoyed the book from the standpoint that the story flows and the writings created images in my mind which were so realistic. br / br /i'm proud of my italian heritage and the culture itself having been to italy i know from first hand knowledge the depth and beauty of the culture. br /this book points out to me how anti italian are these evil people with their br /actions and beliefs it shames me to see that they claim to be of italian heritage. br / br /the italians i met in italy were so peaceful and gentle ahh how i wish this particular evil stain works its way up into legitmate businesses and out of our american culture they certainly seem to have the skills needed to be top ceos in this country. br /the book describes their prowess in business br / br /i could go on and on br /i never got into the perfect women described in the book br / thank you it was more than worth thhe few bucks it cost br / br /thanks for writing it br / br /don muccigrosso br /
Great read for mafia buffs October 14, 2008
Jesse M. Roland (Barberville, FL United States)
I will not revisit what the others have said but I will emphasize that this book is extremely well-written. I could not put it down and read it in one sitting. It gives you great insight into the mafioso of more recent times. br / br /Unfortunately the author is biased and is much too sympathetic towards a man who was obviously a psychopath who can only be described as sadistic and blood thirsty. Also the preoccupation at the end with corrupt prison guards sounds like just what a mafioso would say who was whining about his loss of freedom. Quite frankly he deserves to live the rest of his life in a very small prison cell estranged from everyone he thought nothing of betraying when he was outside. He was clearly a bad candidate for witness protection and although Gravano did revert to form (as a drug dealer) I have no doubt Gaspipe would have probably done the same by seeing how many more times he could shoot someone without killing them to make them suffer.
A GOOD GANGSTER September 13, 2008
Edward Garcia (QUIETRIOT)
CARLO SPEAKS WRITES ABOUT A STAND UP GUY WHO IN THE END RATTED OUT HIS OWN DOG IN HOPES OF GETTING OUT OF JAIL.
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