Mafia Son: A Mafia family, the FBI and a story of betrayal
By (Author) Sandra Harmon
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
1st January 2011
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Organized crime
364.106092
Paperback
288
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
276g
The Scarpa's were a New York Mafia Dynasty led by Greg Scarpa Sr., nicknamed 'the grim reaper' for his brutal addiction to violence and murder. But since the 1960s Scarpa has also been a Top Echelon informant for the FBI. Betrayed by the father he worshipped, his son Gregory Jr. still festers in Colorado's maximum security ADMAX prison, where his information of a plot that resulted in 9/11 was fatefully ignored by the authorities. Granted unique inside access to Greg Jr. and to the FBI, Sandra Harmon pries open the dark heart of the Scarpa family and tells an unforgettable tale of violence, wealth and sex, set in a word where a man's word is both everything and nothing.
Sandra Harmon is the co-author, with Priscilla Presley, of Elvis and Me.