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Covert, February 2008
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My Years Infiltrating the Mob
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
February 2008
On Sale: February 1, 2008
Featuring: Bob Delaney
288 pages
ISBN: 1402754434
EAN: 9781402754432
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In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals
the clandestine life he led before becoming one of
professional basketball’s most respected referees. In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New
Jersey State Trooper when his superiors approached him with
a tantalizing yet dangerous undercover assignment: to
infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby
Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational
business used by law enforcement as flypaper for snagging
crooks. At the height of The Godfather era, Delaney wore a wire and
lived among wiseguys who modeled themselves on their
on-screen counterparts, quoting lines from “The Movie” and
boasting of how often they’d seen it. Delaney even crossed
paths with Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco (though
neither knew the other was undercover), knowing all the
while that a single slip could get him killed. Ultimately gathering enough evidence to convict 30 members
of the Bruno and Genovese crime families, Project Alpha was
a success, but Delaney struggled with post-traumatic stress
disorder and traces of Stockholm syndrome after getting too
close to those he investigated. Therapy helped him come to
terms with all he’d endured during his three tense years
undercover, and, once a college basketball star, Delaney
began officiating high school and intramural games as a way
to rebuild his life—eventually working his way up to the
NBA, where he has been a referee for more than two decades.
This is his amazing true story, with a foreword by NBA great
and current TV commentator Bill Walton.
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