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Deal with the devil : the FBI's secret thirty-year relationship with a Mafia killer / Peter Lance.

by Lance, Peter.

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[New York] : William Morrow ; c2013.

Scarpa, Gregory, Sr., 1928-1994.

DeVecchio, Lin.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Biography.

Political corruption -- United States.

Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.

Mafia -- New York (State) -- New York.

Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

9780061455346 :

xx, 652 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

The kiss of death -- A true Machiavelli -- Hitting the boss -- The Special goes south -- Sinatra, Capote, and the Animal -- Agent provocateur -- God, the Mob, and the FBI -- Thirty days in forty-two years -- The Octopus -- Guns and rabbis -- The royal marriage -- Going to Hell for this -- Love collision -- Twenty grand a week -- Enter the Secret Service -- Death of a second son -- The case of cases -- I shot him a couple of times -- Murder on the overpass -- A connection by blood -- Rumblings of war -- Death by wire -- Brains, butcher, and bull -- Coup d'etat -- Pearl Harbor -- Go out and kill somebody -- The hit on Nicky Black -- Closing and reopening "34" -- Who's going to win this thing? -- Scarpa's war -- A gain of sand on Jones Beach -- Expecting to go home -- The OPR -- The dying declaration -- Burning a good cop -- Gaspipe's confession -- Insane mad-dog killer -- Organized crime and terrorism -- Junior's second sting -- The cover up virus -- Agent of death -- G-man sticks it to DA -- The son also rises -- Appendix A. The principal figures -- Appendix B. The marriage certificate of Gregory Scarpa and Lili Dajani -- Appendix C. Gregory Scarpa Sr., arrest record -- Appendix D. June 18, 1962, Airtel to J. Edgar Hoover debriefing of Gregory Scarpa Sr. -- Appendix E. The "Girlfriend 302" -- Appendix F. 302 from Scarpa Jr.'s sting of Ramzi Yousef -- Appendix G. Ramzi Yousef's "kite" from the Scarpa Jr.-Yousef sting -- Appendix H. Judge Reichbach's decision and order dismissing the DeVecchio case.

Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper," a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.--From publisher's description.

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