Last Days of the Sicilians

by Ralph Blumenthal

An award-winning journalist recounts the suspense- and danger-filled Pizza Connection Case, which involved Mafia killings, secret meetings, stakeouts, billions of dollars in heroin, and a six-year FBI investigation. Reprint.

Genres: True Crime, Crime

464 pages, Paperback

First published August 12, 1988

Reviews

[Dan E]

Wild story. Very in depth storytelling from the reporter who covered it all while it was happening. I only wish he went into the trial a bit more thoroughly but I have no real complaints. Excellent retelling of one of the biggest FBI investigations and mafia trials in US history

[Walt]

The prose is leans away from mass audience and towards legalese. The Sicilian drug peddlers in America do not readily fall into classification types for organized crime and thereby create a complex nexus of personalities and shifting alliances.