Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob - Hardcover

Delaney, Bob; Scheiber, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402754434 ISBN 13: 9781402754432

Verlag: Union Square Press, 2008

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Book by Delaney Bob Scheiber Dave

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This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the life of the mob. It includes 16-page insert of rare photographs. You've seen "The Godfather", now experience the real thing!In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball's most respected referees. In 1975, whilst working as a New Jersey State Trooper, Delaney was approached with a tantalising yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. He accepted. At the height of The Godfather era, Delaney wore a wire and lived among wise-guys who modelled themselves on their on-screen counterparts, quoting lines from "The Movie" and boasting of how often they'd seen it.Delaney knew that all the while a single slip could get him killed, but he ultimately gathered enough evidence to convict 30 members of the Bruno and Genovese crime families. He struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and traces of Stockholm syndrome after getting too close to those he investigated, which he overcame with therapy. And once a college basketball star, Delaney began officiating high school games as a way to rebuild his life - eventually working his way up to the NBA, where he has been a referee for more than two decades. This is his amazing true story, with a foreword by NBA commentator Bill Walton.

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• Verlag: Union Square Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402754434
• ISBN 13: 9781402754432
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288