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    The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
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    The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
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    The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath

    By Philip Carlo

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    The New York Times bestselling author of Gaspipe and The Ice Man, Phillip Carlo returns with a hair-raising portrait of arguably the most depraved psychopath in the history of the Mafia, mob enforcer Tommy “Karate” Pitera. The Butcher tells the riveting true story of a hit man who loved his work too much—a maniac believed responsible for more than sixty remarkably brutal murders—whom even organized crime’s most cold-blooded assassins feared. Another riveting journey into the darkest corners of the underworld, Carlo’s The Butcher is destined to be a true crime classic alongside Wiseguys by Nicholas Pileggi and Underboss by Peter Maas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 29, 2009
    ISBN9780061943836
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    The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
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    Philip Carlo

    Philip Carlo was born and raised on the mean streets of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn—the same streets Tommy Pitera hailed from. There, Carlo earned a Ph.D. in street smarts, and he escaped a life of crime by writing about it with unusual insight. He is the author of the bestsellers The Night Stalker, about notorious serial killer Richard Ramirez, and The Ice Man, about infamous Mafia contract killer Richard Kuklinski. Carlo lives with his wife, Laura, in New York City.

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    • 5/5
      Incredibly good. Evil cant even describe the kind of monster this capo in the bonnano family was
    • 5/5
      Couldn't put it down. Got like two hours before heading to work! Shit.
    • 2/5
      This is the story of Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, a made man in the Bonanno mafia family and brutal killer. As far as it goes, this is a fascinating story about the criminal underworld, and one that I wish had been written by a skilled author. What was so disappointing was the writing - Carlo has a style that is all choppy sentences breathless with excitement: "They were moving at 200 miles an hour", "This was a fire-breathing dragon..." and the like, which becomes irritating to read after a couple of pages. Amaturishly written, but seemingly well researched with information from DEA files, this book can be skipped without any regret.

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