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The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto | 
| Authors: Adrian Humphreys, Lee Lamothe
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 225720
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Upd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0470154454
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780470154458
ASIN: 0470154454
Publication Date: February 4, 2008
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From The Sixth Family, according to witness testimony: BROOKLYN, MAY 5, 1981 "We were in the closet. We all had our weapons loaded. We sat there and waited for the doorbell to ring," said Salvatore Vitale, a slender New York mobster known as Good-Looking Sal. "We left the door open a smidge to look out." The ringing of the bell at the private social club’s entrance signaled the arrival of the first of the invited guests. Vito Rizzuto crouched low, peeking out from his vantage point. Through the swelling crowd and loud chatter from tough men all accustomed to having their say, Vito kept his eyes on one man, Gerlando Sciascia, a fellow Sicilian who was a long-time Rizzuto family friend. Breathing deeply beneath his mask, Vito watched for the secret signal that would draw him from the closet, a signal that came when Sciascia slowly ran the fingers of his lean, right hand through the silver hair on the side of his head. That simple act of preening brought mayhem to the social club and radically changed the balance of power. "Don’t anybody move. This is a holdup," Vito said as he confronted the roomful of powerful mobsters, his words muffled by a woolen ski mask pulled down over his long, thin face. Despite those words, this was not about robbery. Nothing would be taken but three lives and the rights to an underworld throne.
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 A superb and amazing book about OC. August 17, 2007
This is a well written and brilliant book which comes from two accomplished, experienced journalists who are experts on the global history of organized crime and the Mafia. The amount of research and analysis that has gone into this book is amazing and it fully enjoys a 5 star review. The book is very detailed and can be dense at times to wade through the facts and absorb the international and national ramifications of this book. Hang in there and read it carefully, l sometimes read some chapters two or three times to grasp fully the international links of Mafia clans based in North America, South America and Europe.
A branch of the Sicilian mafia has planted cells in the North and South America that have been active since the 1940's and have slowly grown into powerful criminal cartels with links all over the world. In particular Canada which is the home of the Sixth Family with clever and powerful Vito Rizzutto as first among equals. Drugs are the main game for the Sixth Family, but according to this book they are also active in counterfeiting, stock fraud and was even involved in a bizarre search for some lost gold ingots in the Philippines that used to belong to ex President Marcos, l would not even be surprised if they even made a buck out of this book too.
The Bonanno mafia family from New York sent its feared enforcer Carmine Galante to Montreal in the 1950's to setup an offshoot of its own in that city. Galante succeeded so well that for years tribute flowed from Montreal to New York and that city was used to traffic drugs into the USA from the French connection and later Sicily. The Sixth Family bloomed in Montreal from the 1950's onward and gradually became the Montreal crime power in its own right as the New York influence dwindled away to nothing. This book also contains much information about the Bonanno crime family and its operations and how it tried to handle an influx of Sicilian born wise guys into its midst from the 1970's. Eventually there was much suspicion on both sides and some wiseguys ended up whacked. This is a great read for the true crime history buff
Detailed Look July 24, 2007
The Sixth Family by Lee Lamothe offers a detailed look at the infiltration of sicilians and drugs into the traditional New York families through Canada. Lamothe does an admirable job connecting the dots chronologically.
 More detailed, less readable June 23, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book covers much of the same territority as Crittle's "The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino" and although it's longer and contains more detail, it's harder to read, perhaps for that reason. Account of Vito Rizzuto's doings in Montreal, the book's subject, is reason for reading this book, but you might find it slow going, at times. Vito was convicted of murder in New York, after Canada gave him up. Seems like the FBI's game plan was and is to put all mob bosses in jail, no matter how long it takes.
 Interesting but can be boring May 7, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
this book has it's interesting points but over all is very long and boring. i would have definately waited for the softcover and then only read it when I was out of other things to read.
Don't pass this one up--The Sixth Family November 9, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was the most informative book I have read about the Canadian Mafia. Very interesting reading about the rise of Montreal Mafia.
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