Frank Dimatteo was born into a family of mob hitmen.
And finally, revealing the shocking deathbed confessions that will blow the lid off the sordid deeds, stunning betrayals, and all-too-secret history of the American Mafia..
Watching the Gallos wage an all-out war against wiseguys with more power, more money, more guns.
Dropping out of school and hanging gangster-style with the Boys on President Street.
Getting his cheeks pinched by Crazy Joe Gallo until tears came down his face.
From the old-school Mafia dons and infamous "five families" who called all the shots, to the new-breed "independents" of the ballsy Gallo gang who didn\'t answer to nobody, Dimatteo pulls no punches in describing what it\'s really like growing up in the mob. . .
And does he have some wild stories to tell. .and his family. .
And they knew him.
He knew everybody in the neighborhood.
Needless to say, Dimatteo saw and heard things that a boy shouldn\'t see or hear.
His uncle was a capo in the Genovese crime family and bodyguard to Frank Costello.
His father and godfather were shooters and bodyguards for infamous Mafia legends, the Gallo brothers.
Frank Dimatteo was born into a family of mob hitmen