Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires Audiobook (Free)

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For many years these Five Households ruled NY and constructed the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia can be an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that created violent, unreliable leaders and recruits. A twenty-year assault against the five families specifically blossomed into the most successful law enforcement campaign of the last century.

Selwyn Raab’s Five Family members is the brilliant story of the rise and fall of New York’s leading dons, from Lucky Luciano to Paul Castellano to John Gotti and even more. The publication also provides the listener correct up towards the possible resurgence from the Mafia as the FBI and local law enforcement companies turn their focus on homeland security and from organized crime.