4th quarter book summary

The book I read was called “The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino”. Joey Massino was the leader the Bonanno's a mob family located in New York. He worked his way up from hijacking cars and taking orders from people to money laundering, order hits on people, and giving the orders instead of taking them. Massino became the mob leader shortly after Phillip Rastelli died in the late sixties. Massino had many undercover cops and friends who would soon betray him that worked under him and were suppose to be some of his closest associates. Even his own brother in law testified against him in court. It took a while for Massino to finally be caught on all his criminal actions, but in 2003 he was caught, convicted in 2004 of racketeering, extortion, loansharking, conspiracy, money laundering, arson, illegal gambling, and seven murders, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms in 2005. Massino avoided the death penalty by wearing a wire and talking to his associates as an undercover informant. This book was okay and sort of interesting, but at the same time it was long and also had its boring parts. The book consisted of numerous characters which made it harder to keep up with every thing since you had to remember all the hard pronouncing names of the victims, friends, and associates. I like this book due to it having more interesting parts then boring parts. I also disliked this booked because of all the people named in the book and the dialogue that you have to keep up with. Overall this is a good book and everything, but I wouldn't recommend it to any one unless they really enjoy mob books.