Word: mafioso
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Throwing the book at a Mafioso like Bill Bonanno for a white-collar crime is not new. But the dynastic story of how Bill Bonanno was reduced to using another man's credit card is absorbing-especially when reported and assembled by Gay Talese, the golden retriever of personalized journalism. As in The Kingdom and the Power, his best-selling chronicle of traditions and feuds at the New York Times, Talese drops more at the reader's feet than anyone knows what to do with. Honor Thy Father is a jumble of you-are-there re-reportage, underworld...
Talese notes other moments of excitement. Yet he shows better than anyone else that the life of a Mafioso can be pretty dull. Much of the time it is bounded by family reunions, television watching, overeating and taking circuitous auto trips to avoid surveillance...
...your duty to teach someone else your job." The grim humor was an adequate hint; Cammillieri is not known as a jokester in Buffalo Mob circles. He closed the notice with the classic Mafia double entendre: "Best of health." The workers had no trouble translating the threat of the Mafioso...
...former Mafioso turned Government witness whose revelations at the 1963 Senate hearings provided the first insider's account of Mob activities...
...What's a Mafioso gangster like Joseph Sr. doing with a nice Italian name like Colombo...