Deal with the Devil: The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer
Jul 2013 · Harper Collins
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In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a Mafia capo who “stopped counting” after fifty murders, while secretly betraying the Colombo crime family as a Top Echelon FBI informant.
Lance traces Scarpa’s shadowy relationship with the FBI all the way back to 1960, when his debriefings went straight to J. Edgar Hoover. In forty-two years of murder and racketeering, Scarpa served only thirty days in jail thanks to his secret relationship with the Feds.
This is the untold story that will rewrite Mafia history as we know it —a page-turning work of journalism that reads like a Scorsese film. Deal with the Devil includes more than 130 illustrations, crime scene photos, and never-before-seen FBI documents.
Lance traces Scarpa’s shadowy relationship with the FBI all the way back to 1960, when his debriefings went straight to J. Edgar Hoover. In forty-two years of murder and racketeering, Scarpa served only thirty days in jail thanks to his secret relationship with the Feds.
This is the untold story that will rewrite Mafia history as we know it —a page-turning work of journalism that reads like a Scorsese film. Deal with the Devil includes more than 130 illustrations, crime scene photos, and never-before-seen FBI documents.
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M Storran
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February 16, 2024
Bit of a snoozer. Peter Lance spends to much of the book speculating the speculation to speculate his own view of the facts often stumble Stepping through very underwhelming chapters. First 3 chapters are okay, and then after you've seen similar dialogs from the first 3 chapters , it will often use the same sentences. Good book if you need to fall asleep.
deborah elliott
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April 18, 2020
Peter Lance nails it! Excellent book, thoroughly researched, probably has too much information for the average reader like myself, but definitely worth reading. I gained a lot of knowledge about the inner workings of the FBI and how imperative it is for agents to be wary of being manipulated by top level informants. This is a continuing problem for the FBI.
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About the author
Peter Lance is the author of three previous works of investigative journalism, 1000 Years for Revenge, Cover Up, and Triple Cross. A former correspondent for ABC News, he covered hundreds of stories worldwide for 20/20, Nightline, and World News Tonight. Among his awards are the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize and the Sevellon Brown Award from the Associated Press. He lives in California.
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