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Family Secrets

The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

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By: Jeff Coen
Narrated by: Matthew Boston
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Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of 18 gangland killings, revealing organized crime's ruthless grip on the city throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Painting a vivid picture of murder, courtroom drama, family loyalties and disloyalties, journalist Jeff Coen accurately portrays the Chicago Outfit's cold-blooded - and sometimes incompetent - killers and their crimes in the case that brought them down. In 1998 Frank Calabrese Jr. volunteered to wear a wire to gather evidence against his father, a vicious loan shark who strangled most of his victims with a rope before slitting their throats to ensure they were dead. Frank Jr. went after his uncle Nick as well, a calculating but sometimes bumbling hit man who would become one of the highest-ranking turncoats in mob history, admitting he helped strangle, stab, shoot, and bomb victims who got in the mob's way, and turning evidence against his brother Frank.

©2009 Jeff Coen (P)2017 Tantor Organized Crime True Crime Biographies & Memoirs
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"[A] revealing, shocking book . . . superbly crafted." ( Publishers Weekly)
Excellent Mob History • Informative Details • Great Storytelling • Comprehensive Account • Understandable Complexity

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It was a comprehensive telling of the trial that kept things moving along. I was enjoying this book because I lived the first 30 years of my life in Wrigleyville, and connected the cities neighborhoods with the gangsters in the trial.

Excellent history

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Excellent story about the Chicago Mob. Well done. This was my first audiobook and It won't be the last!

Fantastic

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If you want a real, not glamorizing look at mafia, this is an excellent book to get

One of the best

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The author gives lots of good detail and makes the huge case understandable. The narrator adopts a passable Chicago accent for the gangster’s dialog, although pronunciation of certain place names (“Noperville” “Hyr-on”) suggests he is not native.

Exhaustive, coherent account of a complex trial

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great storytelling and the voice over is also good. I highly recommend this book. Great read

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