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An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down A Mafia Family
Touchstone
October 2008
On Sale: October 13, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 1416551638
EAN: 9781416551638
Hardcover
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"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon,
he was going to get whacked." So begins Making Jack
Falcone, the extraordinary true story of an undercover
FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which
resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized
crime family. But long before Joaquin "Jack" Garcia found
himself wearing a wire with some of the Mafia's top capos,
he was one of the FBI's unlikeliest recruits. A Cuban-born
American, Jack graduated from Quantico standing
six-foot-four and weighing 300 pounds -- not your typical
G-man. Jack's stature soon proved an asset as the FBI looked
to place agents undercover with drug smugglers,
counterfeiters, and even killers. Jack became one of the few
FBI agents dedicated solely to undercover work. Using a
series of carefully created aliases, Jack insinuated himself
in the criminal world, from the Badlands of Philadelphia,
where he was a gregarious money launderer, to the streets of
Miami, where an undercover Garcia moved stolen and illicit
goods and brought down dirty cops. Jack jumped at the
opportunity to infiltrate the shadowy world of La Cosa
Nostra, but how would the Cuban-American convince wiseguys
that he was one of their own, a Sicilian capable of "earning
his button" -- getting made in the Mafia? For the first
time, the FBI created a special "mob school" for Jack,
teaching him how to eat, talk, and think like a
wiseguy. And it wasn't long before the freshly minted Jack
Falcone found himself under the wing of one of the Gambinos'
old school capos, Greg DePalma. DePalma, who cared for an
ailing John Gotti in prison, introduced Falcone to his world
of shakedowns, beatings, and envelopes of cash, never
suspecting that one of his trusted crew members was a
federal agent. A page-turning account of the struggle
between law enforcement and organized crime that will rank
with such classic stories as Donnie Brasco, Serpico,
and Wiseguy, Making Jack Falcone is an unforgettable
trip into America's underworld through the eyes of a highly
decorated FBI veteran.
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