Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
Part I
1 The Kiss of Death 3
2 A True Machiavelli 12
3 Hitting the Boss 19
4 The Special Goes South 28
5 Sinatra, Capote, and the Animal 36
6 Agent Provocateur 45
7 God, the Mob, and the FBI 58
8 Thirty Days in Forty-Two Years 70
9 The Octopus 83
10 Guns and Rabbis 92
Part II
11 The Royal Marriage 105
12 Going to Hell for This 118
13 Love Collision 126
14 Twenty Grand a Week 139
15 Enter the Secret Service 151
16 Death of a Second Son 162
17 The Case of Cases 174
18 I Shot Him a Couple of Times 184
19 Murder on the Overpass 193
20 A Connection by Blood 201
Part III
21 Rumblings of War 211
22 Death by Wire 221
23 Brains, Butcher, and Bull 229
24 Coup d'État 241
25 Pearl Harbor 253
26 Go Out and Kill Somebody 265
27 The Hit on Nicky Black 279
28 Closing and Reopening "34" 292
29 Who's Going to Win This Thing? 304
30 Scarpa's War 317
Part IV
31 A Grain of Sand on Jones Beach 333
32 Expecting to Go Home 344
33 The OPR 358
34 The Dying Declaration 370
35 Burning a Good Cop 379
36 Gaspipe's Confession 393
37 Insane Mad-Dog Killer 403
38 Organized Crime and Terrorism 416
39 Junior's Second Sting 431
40 The Cover Up Virus 446
Part V
41 Agent of Death 467
42 G-Man Sticks It to DA 482
43 The Son Also Rises 498
Afterword 506
Acknowledgments 527
Appendix A The Principal Figures 532
Appendix B The Marriage Certificate of Gregory Scarpa and Lili Dajani 533
Appendix C Gregory Scarpa Sr.'s Arrest Record 534
Appendix D June 18, 1962, Airtel to J. Edgar Hoover Debriefing of Gregory Scarpa Sr. 536
Appendix E The "Girlfriend 302" 547
Appendix F 302 from Scarpa Jr.'s Sting of Ramzi Yousef 548
Appendix G Ramzi Yousef's "Kite" from the Scarpa Jr.-Yousef Sting 549
Appendix H Judge Reichbach's Decision and Order Dismissing the DeVecchio Case 550
Notes 555
Credits 635
Index 637
