Murder Machine

"Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia," the second book by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci, was published in 1992. It was hailed by Pete Hamill, Pulitzer Prize winning columnists Murray Kempton and Mike McAlary, New York Daily News columnist Gail Collins and Nick Pileggi, author of Wiseguy and Casino. Murder Machine is an insider's account - buttressed by hundreds of interviews and half a million pages of documents - of a Mafia crew of car thieves and drug dealers that claimed 200 victims in a 10 year period. Headed by Gambino crime family capo Anthony (Nino) Gaggi, the crew had five serial killers among its members, including Gambino mobster Roy DeMeo. (right) At the time Gambino boss Paul Castellano was executed, he was on trial with three of the killers, who were all subsequently convicted and are now serving life terms. Use these links to purchase Murder Machine online from Amazon.com, the Godfather of online booksellers. "This is the scariest book I've ever read about the mob," said Hamill. "We've heard tales about professional killers and tales of solitary serial killers. But this is the tale of a complete gang of serial killers. They maimed. They tortured. They slaughtered. And they enjoyed it. After this, nobody can ever write another Mafia romance." Said McAlary: "You'll be ducking for cover on every page. In Murder Machine, they reveal the story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army." Said Collins: "Nobody knows the mob like Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, and in Murder Machine, they've got the most amazing wiseguy story yet. It's the saga of a crew of serial killers run amok, a cross between the Godfather and Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

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Mob Star

OUR original Gotti book, Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti was published in 1988. "Mob Star: Tireless reporting and tight sentences that make you run to the next page," said Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Jimmy Breslin. The first-ever book about a reigning Mafia boss, Mob Star chronicled Gotti's rise from the South Bronx to the cover of Time Magazine, and from the midtown Manhattan slaying of Castellano to his stunning acquittal of murder and racketeering charges in 1987. With the aid of secret FBI reports that have never been revealed elsewhere, the book also details how Gotti, who fancied himself as a gangster who could smell a rat a mile away, had been betrayed for two decades by two long time buddies who had decided for their own separate reasons to become FBI informers as they walked and talked with the budding Godfather. Mob Star also received lavish praise from Pulitzer Prize winning columnists Mike Royko and Kempton. Said Royko: "What a fascinating portrait they've drawn of this man Gotti: Handsome, ambitious, quick-witted, and enormously successful in his own way. At times, he's almost likeable, until you remember what you're looking at -- sort of a sleek show dog that's alert and well-groomed, but at heart a beast that will tear your throat out just for the fun of it." Kempton put it this way: "Capeci and Mustain have drawn Gotti's portrait with all the splendors and all the blemishes we need for confronting a character strong enough to grow richer from dominating a crew of bookmakers and weak enough to grow poorer for being the most reckless and and unwise of the suckers who bet with him....Whatever his destination we will know, thanks to them, how and why he got there." Perhaps the best praise, however, was uttered by Gotti's lawyer, Bruce Cutler: "It's trash," he said. In July, 2002, a month after Gotti died in a federal prison hospital, Alpha Books published an updated Mob Star with a new prologue, epilogue, and eight additional chapters that takes the Story of John Gotti through his 1992 murder and racketeering conviction and his death from throat cancer.