Mob Nemesis

Mob and crime-fighting cognoscenti and die-hard Sopranos fans will certainly enjoy Griffin's detailed recollections of these lesser-known mobsters' downfall. -Publishers WeeklyThe combination of FBI and Mob intrigue makes for compelling reading. -Booklist[A]n essential contribution to the modern genre of Mafia books ... an insider's view of how organized crime works and how the FBI fights it ... also provides a nifty thumbnail history of the mob.-South Florida Sun-SentinelWhile J. Edgar Hoover was denying that there was such a thing as organized crime, in the forties, fifties, and sixties the mob was busy forming powerful syndicates in many northeastern cities. This book tells the fascinating, first-hand story of how FBI Special Agent Joe Griffin, with the help of a team of courageous professionals, succeeded through dogged determination and uncanny street smarts to convict major La Cosa Nostra leaders in Buffalo, Cleveland, Rochester, and Youngstown.Forget Hollywood's version of the mafia; this is the real inside story from a man who observed the day-by-day behavior of these instinctual killers and for whom it was a matter of principle to destroy them. FBI Medal of Valor recipient Joe Griffin, with the help of writer/researcher Don DeNevi, provides intimate details of mob intrigue, drug deals, gambling rings, hits, bloody gangland wars, and even a plot to plant a mole in the Cleveland FBI office.All the more fascinating because it's true, Mob Nemesis is an engrossing story of the underworld from a man who took them on and won.Joe Griffin, after a very successful 30-year career with the FBI, is now president and CEO of Quest Consultants International, A chicago-area investigative consulting firm.Don DeNevi is the author of Riddle of the Rock: The Only Successful Escape from Alcatraz, among other works.