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Chargement... Mob Killer: The Bloody Rampage of Charles Carneglia, Mafia Hit Manpar Anthony DeStefano
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Man, this book suffers from false advertising. MOB KILLER: THE BLOODY RAMPAGE blah blah blah -- you'd think this book was about Kuklinski, or at least his equal. Alas, Charlie Canigs is hardly the larger-than-life character that is The Ice Man. We're pretty sure he killed four people (possibly five, but he wasn't convicted of the fifth), and I know it's a horrible thought, but -- that's it? Really? Four people over 10+ years is a bloody rampage? Of course, body count isn't everything. A wiseguy doesn't have to number his victims on two hands to be myth-worthy. For all we know (and we're certainly told it over and over in this book), Charlie Canigs really is a bloodthirsty, sadistic, morbid, sociopathic mobster with few equals in the personality disorders department. The problem is that the book tells us this, but it doesn't show us. And this is largely because Charles Carneglia declined to be interviewed by the author, and the subsequent lack of personality completely cripples the book. MOB KILLER fails to bring Charlie Canigs to life, and I think the author knows it, which is why most of the book isn't even really about Charlie. It's about Gotti, Alite, McMahon, Zuccaro -- all of whom are much more present personalities. We get lots of quotations from these guys -- words straight from the mobsters' mouths -- but I can recall maybe three quotations attributed to Charlie (and even those are hearsay). The guy who supposedly made Gotti dangerous just seems absent from his own book, and that's a real shame. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A Crazed Killer He dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard. La Costra Nostra Charles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the infamous crime family rose to power with their murderous trail of sex, jealousy, greed, and revenge, Carneglia rose with them. Mafia, Madness And Murder This is the horrifying story of a misfit who fit perfectly into the New York mafia. In a harrowing journey inside a ruthless criminal underworld, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony M. DeStefano chronicles one man's life in a world of depraved acts of violence and the horrors that went with being a member of the Gambino family. "Thrilling American crime writing." -Jimmy Breslin on King of the Godfathers Includes 16 Pages of Shocking Photos Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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