Body Mike: An Unsparing Expose by the Mafia Insider Who Turned on the Mob

by Joseph Cantalupo

Book Overview

Body Mike presents the startling, real-life mob revelations of Joseph Cantalupo, the most effective "wiseguy" informant in years. Cantalupo was like a son to crime leader Joseph Colombo. He became... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394563719
• ISBN13: 9780394563718
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Body Mike: A great expose of the Columbo Family!

After reading more than 20 mob books, I have found this book to be the most exciting. This book gives the reader an inside look at that inner workings of Brooklyn's Columbo Family and its intriguing boss, Joe Columbo. The reader finds how this man evaded taxes and kept in power for as long as he did, and it also describes loansharking in vivid details. Mr. Cantalupo's memory and survival is a blessing for mafia readers. Organized crime in Brooklyn is stupendously covered with this book. Only one regret about this book and that is it lacks detail on the Gallo-Profaci war. The only other book that holds a candle to this is "Blood Oath" by George Fresolone. I highly recommend this title.