
Homicide Is My Business
Luigi the Zip: A Hitman’s Quest for Honor
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Stephen Bel Davies
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The story of Luigi Ronsisvalle is an intimate look at the life of a professional killer. It is, in some ways, the story of all workingmen and women with ambition who never achieve their ultimate goal. But what makes Luigi unique is that, for him to achieve his goal, people had to die. His ambition, from when he was twelve years old, was to be a made man in the Mafia. He once told a presidential commission, "American child falls in love with baseball, I fall in love with Mafia."
Coauthor Michael Vecchione spent months interviewing the hitman about his life in the Sicilian and American Mafia, finally becoming his confidant. Those days, weeks, and months together brought Luigi to realize that, despite the concept of omertà—the code of silence ingrained in him from an early age—the road to a truly honorable life meant turning on those he once admired.
Luigi had done everything asked of him by his Mafia bosses. This included the murder of thirteen people. But unlike other hitmen, Luigi was denied the Mafia recognition he felt he deserved. Drawing on personal files, handwritten notes, and official sources, this book attempts to explain his complicated life.
Contains mature themes.
©2022 Michael Vecchione and Jerry Schmetterer (P)2022 TantorListeners also enjoyed...
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Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history - "Little" Nicky Scarfo’s reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s - written by Scarfo’s underboss and nephew, "Crazy" Phil Leonetti. The youngest-ever underboss at the age of 31, Leonetti was at the crux of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the 1980s when he infiltrated Atlantic City after gambling was legalized, and later turned state’s evidence against his own.
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Guilty pleasure.
- By A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. on 03-28-14
By: Phillip Leonetti, and others
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Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys
- Surviving Brooklyn's Colombo Mob
- By: Craig McGuire, Carmine Imbriale - contributor
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the true story of Carmine Imbriale—a gambler, a brawler, a bandit, a bookie, an enforcer. For two decades, Imbriale was a street-level operative in one of the most violent crews in the Colombo Family. Now in hiding, Imbriale teams up with true-crime veteran writer Craig McGuire to take you inside the Thirteenth Avenue rackets at the height of their violence. This is the jarring account of his lawless lifestyle culminating in a gang war in South Brooklyn, from which he emerges a survivor.
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Entertaining
- By Mark on 01-03-23
By: Craig McGuire, and others
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Mobfather
- The Story of a Wife and a Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia
- By: George Anastasia
- Narrated by: Tom Beyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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George Anastasia exposes what it really means to be married to the mob—and fathered by it. As revealed in their personal accounts, life for the wife and sons of Thomas "Tommy Del" DelGiorno became a descent into hell. In the end, guilty of a raft of crimes that included multiple murders, Tommy Del served less than a year in prison in exchange for turning government witness during a dozen trials against fellow mobsters. Based on years of reporting, thousands of pages of court testimony, and extensive interviews, Mobfather takes the listener deep into the heart of corruption.
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Great story
- By Amazon Customer on 06-21-24
By: George Anastasia
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Sonny
- The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese
- By: S.J. Peddie
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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John "Sonny" Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a "made man" for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades - and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery. This is the true story of an old-school Mafioso as it's never been told. Newsday reporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself.
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Absolute BS
- By Lingerfelt on 04-20-22
By: S.J. Peddie
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The Last Godfather
- The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino
- By: Simon Crittle
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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As head of the Bonanno clan, Joey Massino was the last don, and ran his world with an iron hand - until he got hit with a murder rap, and turned on his own people. Here, for the first time, is his shocking true story - a glimpse inside the world of organized crime that we may never see again.
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the 6th family
- By chris torkelson on 05-16-20
By: Simon Crittle
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Mob Boss
- The Life of Little Al D'arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia
- By: Jerry Capeci, Tom Robbins
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D'Arco's life.
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Well written, accurate information, great narrator
- By Lisa on 12-01-13
By: Jerry Capeci, and others
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Hitman
- The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano, Whitey Bulger’s Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld
- By: Howie Carr
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Martin Scorcese’s The Departed barely touched his story, but radio talk show sensation, crime reporter, and Boston Herald columnist, Howie Carr, takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades Martorano struck fear into anyone remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to 20 murders for which Johnny would serve only 12 years in prison.
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My audible listening enjoyment has taken a hit
- By Steven Schuster on 06-01-11
By: Howie Carr
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Murder Machine
- A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia
- By: Gene Mustain, Jerry Capeci
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.
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stop browsing and just get it.
- By Patrick on 04-20-21
By: Gene Mustain, and others
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Wiseguy
- By: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese - introduction
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Corey Brill, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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This is the true crime best seller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds...with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action.
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Finally unabridged
- By Rodney on 12-16-19
By: Nicholas Pileggi, and others
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- Cody
- 01-18-23
Loved it
A story of an unknown mobster & hitman that I haven't heard of and a bit of a deep dive into the life of a "zip" that had a big impact.
Highly recommend for organized crime fans.
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- alfredlion
- 09-06-24
Great insight into the life of a knock-around mobster
Ronsisvalle spent the better part of two decades knocking around the lower rungs of the Bonnano Family’s Knickerbocker Ave Sicilian crews. An inveterate gambler and womanizer he was never more than a brokester and would never fulfill his dream of becoming a made man. Still, his story is an interesting one.
There is much to recommend this book to fans of Mafia history. The people he was around are not often discussed in books. I may be wrong but I think Ronsisvalle was the only Zip from that era that flipped. He testified at the Pizza Connection trial along with Tomasso Buscetta. Even though he was at the bottom of the Pizza Connection he was still around a lot of guys. He talks about going around burning pizza places associated with the Gambino’s down. He was told it was for gambling debts, but it fits right into the timeline of Galante’s attacks on Gambino traffickers and their pizza shops.
The book is well written and will appeal to casual readers as well as fans of the genre.
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- LINY Amazon Shopper
- 01-27-23
My first view into the mafia!
Sure I’ve watched mob movies and shows, but to hear a true story from the perspective of both a ‘zip’ and DA - wow… so much I never knew that happened while I was a kid growing up on the east coast. I wouldn’t have minded an even more broken English representation of Luigi just to get an even more real sense of him. The greed and drugs within the mafia really surprised me, it’s a shame that honor is not a top priority anymore. But then again everyone’s definition of honor is different…
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- Randy Ayotte
- 07-03-23
Very interesting, and entertaining!
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys mafia history. This book was very informative.
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