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Summary: The most pleasant book I've read in a long time.
Review: This book was so incredibly sweet. It's so mellow and innocent, it's a really nice thing to read when you come home cold and wet, and all you want to do is curl up under the christmas tree with a nice, relaxing read. "Murder Machine" would be great to read to children, especially as a bedtime story. It's guaranteed to bring calm, pleasant, wholesome dreams. I love the warm fuzzy feeling inside that this book brought me with every sentence, such as "He picked up the heavy lead pipe and forcefully brought it down over his male lover's head. He heard the shattering of his skull and watched the fragments of bone hit the chandelier. Then he washed his hands and had some chamomile tea." How do you not love a book as sweet as that? Sometimes you need a novel that talks about the need for more chamomile tea breaks in the world, for if we all took some time out to sip some chamomile tea, the world would be a much better place.
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Summary: brutal story
Review: This is a great story about Roy DeMeo and his crew. These guys were vicious killers who enjoyed making people do "the houdini." They ran out of people to kill so they started to kill each other. Then the ones left standing at the end were all sent to prison to rot for the rest of their life. Very well researched and very accurate account. Read this in conjunction with "The Westies" to get a more complete picture of how brutal organized crime became when drug crazed killers were set lose on the city.
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Summary: Cant belive it if I diden`t know it was true
Review: I read this book and I can not belive that there are people like this that go about it like you go to work to drive a bus or something,It was very scary and grafic, but knowing its true I couldent put it down, Im about to read it again and would highly recomemd it.Growing up in BKLYN people such as these are everywhere,they are your friends neighbors,even brothers of your friends.Its been my experience that you never know who they realy are because the ones who advertise it are usally pee ons.I wish Jerry Capeci would do follow up books about these people to find out what they are doing now, or where they are, if they are still alive the ones who survived.I would like to see a movie made with this book keept intact so the movie is just like the book ,no change in the story.
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Summary: Anthony Senter a true freind
Review: i lived in canarsie all my life they lived around the corner from me they were great freinds of mine and this book says such things that i nor anyone else thinks its true, people and i cant say anything wrong about them long live Roy Demeo my god bless you anthony you are still missed and will always be in my thoughts, about the book was a good read anything that was talked about anthony in the book is all good p.s if there ever is a movie coming out about this book would be glad to help or even play a part in the movie could make millions. thank you all
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Summary: Welcome To Hell
Review: Excellent story of the DeMeo gang of Brooklyn. Very powerful accounts of the brutality of "that life". Does a very nice job of giving a look into the other side of the Gambino family, the side without John Gotti. The authors do a nice job of taking the romance aspect away from the mafia that is so common in organized crime books, although not always true with Dominick Montiglio. The book also lends itself to understanding the difficulty for law enforcement agencies to prepare and prosecute these powerful families. As close a real life "Godfather" story as you will find.
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Summary: "Big Paul's main Capo's Gotti's Advisaries"
Review: Murder Machine is a very well written book by a great author who I've had the opportunity to chat with through e-mails. This book is mainly about Nino Gaggi a Capo in the Gambinos who was a stand up guy, with a short temper and a lack of patience. He got his nephew a green beret just back from "NAM" involved in family bus- iness, at one point in the book, he posts his nephew in an attic with an automatic M16, because a meeting over a serious charge is going to happen, and his orders were, if Paul and I are not the first ones out, that means were already dead and you open fire & kill those who live! It's a very intense book, that is why the high rating, at one point, Nino is at a b-day party for someone when another Capo, Roy DeMeo appears on his door step dripping w/ sweat and informs him that this guy who's supposed to be whacked just happens to be on the corner, talking on the payphone. So Nino excuses himself gets a pistol, and his nephew, and away they go. Shots are traded up and down a block, I mean this is taking place in the mid-afternoon in a pretty nice neighborhood and here are these cowboys shooting up the streets as if nothing or nobody's gonna complain. I'm not gonna say if they hit the guy or not, you gotta buy the book for that, but as they are making their way back to Nino's party, Roy,who fell has a huge rip in his pant leg and is sweating up a storm, while Nino who always liked to dress sharp had dirt on his hands and his hair was going every which way. See Roy DeMeo's main job was sending cars to the Middle East, he used the Westies, the Irish Mob in Hells Kitchen to get them and in turn they taught Roy how to dismember and cut up a dead body into pieces and explained the finer parts of that trade, so they wouldn't have to worry about a body being found. These where the guys who Big Paul Castellano where gonna use to clip Gotti, but DeMeo got caught and they all got indicted.
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Summary: My Old Neighborhood
Review: One of the individuals written about in this book was someone I knew my whole life, and knew as a very different person than the one portrayed in this book, although I have no doubts of the book's factual information. When I was told of his death I could not imagine what he possibly could have ever done that was so bad that he was killed in such a manner, and how he could have become involved with people who killed and did it a matter of business - this book provided the answers to questions I had for many years - and I am still shocked by those answers.
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Summary: The realism of the underbelly of the mob
Review: This is a true story of the Brooklyn DeMeo gang who specialized in murder during the 1970s and 80s and how they were finally brought to justice. Some of the information came from Dominick Montiglio, a witness who testified against the mob. However, much of it is written from his point of view and somehow managed to deny his direct involvement with any of the murders, therefore making me wonder about every aspect of book's accuracy. It details his heroism in Vietnam, his marriage and family life, and includes photos of him as a two-year old at his birthday party as well as his 1965 high school graduation. There are no photos of course of the shocking and brutal murders which are described in gruesome detail throughout the book. The realism was what was so horrible, and opened my eyes to something that was going on right in my city which I was totally unaware of. I still shudder when I think of it. For the time I was reading the book, it was like a bright floodlight was shed on a part of New York City history which illuminated the criminal mob underbelly of the times. Its clear writing style pulled no punches. The book was meant to shock and it delivered on this promise and is certainly not for everybody. But for all those willing to explore this world from the safety your armchair, I certainly recommend it.
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Summary: Awsome
Review: Murder Machine is a book that you will read over and over again, The reason- you wont believe how brutal the DeMeo crew was. This is the crew that made the mafia tremble. They were the ones who invented the unique method of "desmemberment". Since Roy who was in charge of the crew was a butcher years ago, He had a method of getting rid of bodies(oh about 200 or so). First they would shot the victum in the head, then stab him in the heart a few times to stop the bleeding, Then hang the body up-side down in the bathroom to coagulate the blood, so as not to make a mess. While the body is hanging, they sometimes would order up food and eat while the coagulation was taking place. Sometimes with boold on their hands. After the blood coagulated they would then chop up the body into 6 pieces. Put the parts into bags, the rest is history. Want to learn all about this murderous crew, then buy this MUST READ BOOK.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci do an excellent job of sticking to the facts. Unlike other mob books, they make no attempt to glirfy the criminals. They just tell it like it is. If you are not familiar with the authors, Jerry is the man as far as inside info on he NY mob goes. All in all a very good book. I breezed through this one. A fairly quick read.
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