The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family

by Gerard O'Neill and Dick Lehr

Book Overview

On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, bestselling authors Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill tell the story of the fall of the house of Angiulo. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, aided in part by the Irish Mob's Whitey Bulger, entered the Boston Mafia's headquarters in Boston's North End early one morning in 1981 and began to compile the evidence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586481088
• ISBN13: 9781586481087
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

GOOD PLACE TO START

Interested in the New England mob? Go no further - THE UNDERBOSS is well researched and you walk away from it with a very good understanding of the events that occurred and the key players behind it. Worthy of any mafia book collection. I also recommend BLACK MASS, ALL SOULS, and STREET SOLDIER.

Do you speak american?

One of Jerry Angulio's favorite sayings do you speak american..$$$. At any rate, this a good account on the Boston mafia and New England Underboss Jery Anguilio's. It tells how he got his start after being in the navy in ww 2 becoming a bookmaker and early on almost getting whacked for making a blunder. He eventually rose in the mafia ranks despite never having actually personally killed anyone himself although he would order many hits. He actually at one time wanted to be a lawyer and was one of the first mafioso to Realize that RICO could become what it has becom and ironically his family would be the first proving ground trial that RICO would be used against LCN successfully. He wasn't all that well like even among mafia ranks but made a ton of money. FBI breaks ins to wire his social club would bring down him and many other Boston LCN members instead of the supposed info Whitey Bulger gave to the FBI.

Good mafia reading

This is a great book to read if you ever wanted to know about Boston's mafia and the Angiulo family. It would be of particular interest if you live in Boston - especially the North End, Angiulo's home base. It goes in to detail about the FBI and their determination to get Angiulo, no matter how long it took. Very interesting!

Great Book About the Boston Mob

If you're interested in the Boston Mob & the Angiulo family, this is the book for you. There is very little out there on the subject and this book gives a compelling view into the workings of the North End Mob & the Feds attempts, failures, & ultimate success in catching the seemingly unattainable Jerry Angiulo. It is well written and consistantly interesting & exciting.

Outstanding look into the Boston mob.

This book documents the Rise and Fall of Patriarca Family underboss Jerry Anguilo and his brothers. From start to finish it is highly enjoyable reading. I couldn't put it down, and in fact have read it twice since the first time (1988). It is even more relevant now that Steve Flemmi, Whitey Bulger's Irish mob partner, is testifying that he and Whitey were able to commit crimes (short of murder) in return for their 'informing' on the Anguilo's.