- Mafia, Crime and criminals, La Cosa Nostra, Organised Crime
A biography novel detailing the life of American Mafia member Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno. It chronicles Fratianno's life from a kid in Cleveland to becoming the acting Boss of the Los Angeles crime family.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and cool.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Ovid Demaris
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 565
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553202304
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