OPERATION FAMILY SECRETS(ISBN=) 英文原版

Operation Family Secrets is the chilling true story of
how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago made the
unprecedented decision to work with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s
Office to incriminate his own father and to help bring down the
last great American crime syndicate—the one-hundred-year-old
Chicago Outfit.

The Calabrese family of Chicago is a close-knit, middle-class,
multi-generational Italian-Irish-American clan. They operate family
businesses. They work day and night striving for the American
Dream. All three sons forge a bond with their controlling father,
Frank Sr., and their soft-spoken favorite uncle, Nick. As a boy,
the oldest son, Frank Jr., realizes that his father and uncle are
also “made” members of another close-knit family: the outfit.
     In Operation Family Secrets Frank
Calabrese, Jr., tells the turbulent tale of a family dominated by a
violent patriarch who breaks a longstanding unwritten outfit code
and “brings the street into his home” by enlisting two of his sons
into the outfit’s 26th Street/Chinatown crew. Frank Jr. reveals for
the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and describes being put
to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling,
labor racketeering, and extortion, and plotting the slaying of a
fellow gangster, while they commit the bombing murder of a trucking
executive, the gangland execution of two mobsters whose burial in
an Indiana cornfield was reenacted in Martin Scorsese’s blockbuster
film Casino, and numerous other hits.
     The Calabrese Crew’s colossal earnings and
extreme ruthlessness make them both a dreaded criminal gang and the
object of an intense FBi inquiry. Eventually Frank Jr., his father,
and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, and
“Junior” and “Senior” are sent to the same federal penitentiary in
Michigan. Upon arrival, Frank Jr. makes a life-changing decision:
to go straight rather than agree to his father’s plans to resume
crew activities after serving his sentence. But he needs to keep
his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and
save his family. Frank Jr. makes a secret deal with prosecutors,
and for six months—unmonitored and unprotected—he wears a wire as
his father recounts decades of hideous crimes. Frank Jr.’s
cooperation with the FBi for virtually no monetary gain or special
privileges helps create the government’s “operation Family Secrets”
campaign against the Chicago outfit. The case reopens eighteen
unsolved murders and also implicates twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers
and two outfit bosses. it becomes one of the largest organized
crime cases in U.S. history.
     Operation Family Secrets intimately
portrays how organized crime rots a family from the inside out
while detailing Frank Jr.’s deadly prison-yard mission, the FBI’s
landmark investigation, and the U.S. attorney’s office’s daring
prosecution of america’s most dangerous criminal
organization.