Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family – An Inside Story of Power, Murder, and Control from Sicily to New York

This is a well written, solid book about the Gambino Family through the decades. It starts with its inception and finishes with John Gotti going to prison.The book is full of interesting stories about Mafia people throughout the Gambino history. The book isn't short, isn't fluff. Very substantial, well researched and well written. I highly recommend it.The book was written in the 1990s soon after Gotti's last trial, which he lost. Looks like the print book was scanned and turned into the Kindle version. It's a mess. Every paragraph, probably every sentence, has weird spelling and punctuation. It would be nice if the publisher would re-do the scan and clean up the spelling and formatting. It's very irritating and disruptive to read the book the condition it is now.Also, no photos in the Kindle book. Surely the publisher can find a few that are ok for a digital book.

Just got my book,can't wait to read it,I sure it good and worth the money..just disappointed it didn't come with a cover smh..4 🌟s..

I read all the mafia books because I find it amazing how these guys rolled ... they just did whatever they wanted ... very well put together and an easy read. Would highly recommend it to anyone.

Good story over many decades. Covering a lot of different people to tell the story. Interesting reading from start to finish!

This was an informative and entertaining read, especially the rise and especially the fall of John Gotti, but there were some problems that the editors or Amazon could have and should correct. First the good. There was some entertaining and informative details about Gotti, and especially his last trial that any fan of true crime or Mafia stories will enjoy. There was also quite a bit of information about the beginnings of Cosa Nostra and the Gambino family, especially considering the secrecy and mystery of that world before wire taps and informats were around to lift the veil. In my opinion there were only two negative problems with this book. First there were several parts of the book that were repeated word for word several times throughout the book, mainly regarding tapes of Gotti. The book would quote the tapes and a few chapters later in a trial they would appear again, and then a few chapters later, they would be show up some more. Even though it sometimes was frustrating and maybe could have been cleaned up, at times some of the repeated stories were helpful, so it didn't bother me too bad. The other problem did bother me. There were several typos that at times made it difficult to follow. By reading this review it should be obvious I am no grammar cop. I'm not talking about a misspelled word or a missing comma,. There were names that only had one or two letters, and several times a name or word was replaced by numbers, like the writer but the number lock key, the editors missed it and apparently no one at Amazon caught it either when it was being written for a digital copy. Before writing the review, I looked and it was written in 1993. So either since 1993 the author, none of the author 's family, or the publisher read this book, or the mistakes were made when it was converted to digital. Either way, parts of the book was hard to understand. It was like a test where they give you the first and last letter of a word and humble everything else up, except worse and for 200 pages. The only other thing I would add is that it would have been nice for someone to have added a chapter or two to follow up on the family in the last 25 years since this book was written. If you are a fan, it's worth struggling through the errors to read this.

This book was very interesting and informative definitely going to be a classic. The author is well versed on the subject he writes about and writes a great account of incidents. Believe me my review can not do this book justice it is one of those books you need to read for yourself.

Very detailed and accurate look at the history of organized crime in New York. Good read if you can tolerate significant and numerous editing issues.

what a history lesson on the Gambino crime family

This really is a brilliant account of the rise of the mob and its subsequent downfall. It is really well written, factual and fascinating, albeit a little explicit in places. I've read many many books about the mafia and visited all of the US related places of interest and memorials. This book really is the best account of them all.

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I HAVE JUST STARTED READING THIS BOOK, AND SO FAR IT HAS MET MY EXPECTATIONS

Awesome

Bought for my nephew who said he very much enjoyed this excellent book. He's into all that crime stuff anyways. Delivery and packaging were excellent.