Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

£5.15

A good read - A good read but a bit longwinded. Enjoyed the book but found my mind wandering during some of it.What a bunch of snitchers the mafia ended up being, all these confessions of books are all about those who ended up telling all in the hope of getting a shorter sentence. This is another.Most mafia or murder buffs will enjoy this, it is one of the better tales.

woeful - i have read pretty much every mafia book going and this was without a doubt the worst, most badly researched and least factual tome i have ever had the misfortune to pay for.there is no detail whatsoever. there are something like 72 chapters with so little detail in each it makes a mockery of the term true crime. no mention of why and how casso was thrown out of the witness protection programme or any detailed analysis of his own court case. no index either and that tells you all you need to know about a so called non-fiction true account.full of simple errors, non sequiturs and cliches.perhaps gaspipe himself had final copy approval because there is no other explanation for the blatant glossing over of all casso s degeneracy.anyone reading the book would think casso was an honourable man caught out by turn coats, snitches and the greed of other men. the fact is he was an informer who gave up the store before securing a binding agreement from the government. carlo shown no recognition of the irony that the duplicitous streetsmart Casso was completely had over by the government. the hawk becomes the pigeon as it were.i agree he was treated unfairly by the reneging government but it was hardly surprising.the term is i believe poetic justice.none of this comes through from the book which is low on factual content and high on repetitive cliche. in short: all filler, no thriller

A little disappointing - Was looking forward to reading this for many months before publication, had previously read Philip Carlo s The Ice Man and had enjoyed his eloquent and entertaining writing.On the positive side Carlo portrays Gaspipe as a human being and tries to explain his actions in an almost sympathetic way rather than the one dimensional brutal, systematic killer he has been portrayed by most recent writers.For avid readers on this subject there is not a great deal new contained within the book and the very short chapters give the impression that the author is struggling to find the material to fill the book.Interestingly though one of Gaspipe s revelations completely debunks one of the main claims in Carlo s previous book The Ice Man surrounding the murder of Roy De Meo.

Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss - If your interested in the mafia between 70 s and 80 s this is the book for you to read. It will give you the understanding of what it is all about. I ve just started reading mafia books in the past year and this book puts everything into perspective. Fantastic book! You ll find it hard to put down. The author Philip Carlo is brilliant the way he has wrote this book. Short chapters have made this a better read. Goes back to old days and to gas pipes era. FANTASTIC. ALAN HAASE. U.K

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