UNDERBOSS

Sammy the Bull Gravano's story of life in the Mafia is based on dozens of interviews. The reader is ushered into the secret inner sanctum of Cosa Nostra, an underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always looming. We've often read or heard about this world from the outside, but now comes a no-holds-barred account from one who was there. Gravano's story reveals the truth behind a quarter-century of shocking headlines. It is also a tragic story of a wasted life, and of the unalterable course that confronts those who become members of the so-called Honored Society.