Covert My Years Infiltrating the Mob

Name: Covert My Years Infiltrating the Mob
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ISBN: 9781402767142

ISBN-10: 1402767145

ISBN-13: 9781402767142

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Authors: Bob Delaney, Dave Scheiber, Bill Walton

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Featured on ESPN, NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball's most respected officials. Soon after joining the New Jersey State Troopers in 1973, Delaney was offered a tantalizing undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. And so he became Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational business used by law enforcement as flypaper for snagging wise guys. While wearing a wire, Delaney dealt daily with mobsters who modeled themselves after their on-screen counterparts (at the height of The Godfather's popularity), and even crossed paths with Joe Pistone, the real-life…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Union Square Press
Publication date: 7/7/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056

Dave Scheiber is a nationally renowned journalist and author who has earned some of the most prestigious awards in his profession.



Introduction to the Paperback Edition


Foreword: Bill Walton



A Voice from the Dark Side



Bobby Covert, Meet Bob Delaney



Let's End This Thing of Theirs



The Consigliere and the Cop



In the Shadow of the Statue of Liberty



No Good Fellas Here



The Bella Vita



Remember the Alamo



Going, Going, Gone



The Raid



Spiraling Downward



Whistle-Blower



A New Life through Hoops



I've Always Been a Number



A Final Call


Epilogue


For the Record


Courtside


Afterword


A Note from the Authors


Acknowledgments


Index