Gotti’s Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia Audiobook (Free)

From the New York Times bestselling writer of Blood and Honor as well as the Last Gangster-“one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)-comes the certain to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the initial viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man John Alite, a close associate of Junior Gotti who later testified against him.

In Gotti’s Guidelines, George Anastasia, a prize-winning reporter who spent over thirty years covering crime, offers a surprising about Gotti’s Guidelines: THE STORYPLOT of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia and incredibly rare glimpse in to the Gotti family, witnessed up-close from former family insider John Alite, John Gotti Jr.’s longtime friend and protector. Until now, no one has given up the type of personal stats about the Gottis-including the famous “Gotti Rules” of leadership-that Anastasia exposes right here. Drawing on considerable FBI files and other documents, his own knowledge, and distinctive interviews with insiders and professionals, including mob-enforcer-turned-government-witness Alite, Anastasia pokes openings in the Gotti star, demystifying this notorious family and its profitable and often fatal machinations.

Anastasia offers never-before-heard information regarding the murders, medication working, and extortion that propelled John J. Gotti to the top from the Gambino crime family members and the treachery and deceit that allowed John A. “Junior” Gotti to follow in his father’s footsteps. Told from street level and through the eye of the wiseguy who saw everything firsthand, the effect is certainly a riveting take a look at a family whose hubris, violence, passion, and greed fueled a bloody rise and damaging fall that is still reverberating through the American underworld today.

Gotti’s Rules includes 8 web pages of black-and-white photographs.