The Weasel A Double Life in the Mob

by Humphreys, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780470964514
• ISBN10: 0470964510
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-14
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

In the world of organized crime, it is often the mob bosses who get the spotlight. The godfathers. The public faces of their Family. But a family has many parts, and The Weasel is an inside look at the day-to-day life of a working gangster on the streets of Toronto and New York. It is an inside look at the Golden Age of organized crime, when The Weasel was on call 24 hours a day to do the Joe jobs: enforcement, cash drops; running gambling rackets and collecting debts; chauffeur to mob bosses and politicians. But The Weasel learns that he is a less than stellar at committing crimes. He's a boxer, con man, gambler and a thief, but a lousy crook. Following an arrest for a bit part in a massive scam, he turns police informant, where he finds his true calling. He begins to work as an undercover operative for the FBI, RCMP, and Scotland Yard. He is seconded by police forces around the world to play the role of a mob heavy to infiltrate criminal gangs. He even trains police officers on informant tricks of his trade. His work as an informant does not go unnoticed. Two contracts have been issued on his life and the Weasel finds himself in and out of witness protection programs. In a decision that puts him at considerable risk, The Weasel tells his story for the first time in excruciating and often hilarious detail to award-winning veteran crime reporter and bestselling author Adrian Humphreys. Humphreys scrutinizes the material, confirms the substantive facts with other sources, reflects on what it all means and then tells the full story of The Weasel from more than just The Weasel's point of view. Here also is the perspective of the police - his "handlers" - who worked with The Weasel, often in life-threatening situations, as well as the view of some who were betrayed by The Weasel from the witness stand. As a man, The Weasel is at once repellent and engaging. With his sausage-like fingers bursting from under heavy gold rings, atrocious table manners and a history of violence, The Weasel is a man to be wary of. With his easy laugh, unflinching honesty and acute pride in the work he has done to put crooks, pedophiles and killers in jail, The Weasel is a man with a surprising knack for telling a story that is not supposed to be told. As a book, The Weasel is a true story that reads like a novel and immerses the reader into the arcane, work-a-day world of both crooks and cops with a depth of detail that resonates with credibility. The Weasel reveals the stunning successes and frightening failures by men on both sides of the law. And at the end, The Weasel raises troubling questions of morality, propriety and justification that naturally arise in a world where the line between the good guys and the bad guys blur together in one man, known as The Weasel.

Author Biography

Adrian Humphreys is an award-winning journalist and the author of two critically acclaimed bestsellers, The Enforcer (HarperCollins) and The Sixth Family (Wiley), an epic mob saga published in three languages. A senior reporter with the National Post, his exposés of underworld life have been featured in newspapers and magazines around the world and made into movies, including Zeyda and the Hitman starring Danny Aiello as The Weasel. Adrian can be reached at [e-mail].

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. vii
Chapter 1âÇô22 3âÇô147	p. 1
Chapter 23âÇô41 155âÇô309	p. 153
Chapter 42âÇô50 321âÇô383	p. 319
Epilogue	p. 391
Acknowledgements	p. 397
Index	p. 399
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