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This is actually the true account of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to America. In a small village in upstate New York, mob bosses from all over the country-including Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Cuba boss Santo Trafficante, Jr., and future Gambino boss Paul Castellano-were nabbed by Sergeant Edgar D. Croswell as they accumulated to sort out a bloody battle of succession. For years FBI director J. Edgar Hoover possessed adamantly rejected the lifestyle of the Mafia, but young Robert Kennedy immediately identified the shattering importance of the Apalachin summit. Appointed lawyer basic after his brother John became chief executive, Bobby embarked on a plan to break the back of the mob, participating in a furious turf struggle with the powerful Hoover. Detailing mob killings, the early times of the heroin trade, and the crusade to loosen the your hands on organized crime, this momentous account will caputre fans of Gus Russo and Luc Sante. Reavill scintillatingly recounts the start of the end for the Mafia in the us and how it all started out with a good man in the right place at the right time. Gil Reavill can be an publisher, screenwriter, and playwright whose work has been generally featured in journals. He is the author of Aftermath, Inc. and coauthor of Beyond All Reason and the screenplay that became the 2006 film Dirty, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr.
