Last Gangster

AS A COP, RON PREVITE WAS CORRUPT. AS A MOBSTER, HE WAS BRUTAL. AS AN FBI RAT, HE WAS THE ANGEL OF DEATH. For thirty-five years, "Big Ron" Previte roamed the underworld-a six-foot-tall, 300-pound capo in a powerful Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family. He ran every mob gambit from drug-trafficking to prostitution to the extortion of millions from Atlantic City. But by the 1990s, the old-school criminal workhorse began to resent having to take orders from a cocky and careless younger generation of bosses-like "Skinny Joey" Merlino, the charismatic and deadly MTV mobster. As Previte saw it, the days of loyalty and honor were over, and he became the FBI's secret weapon in its war on the Philly mob. Wired and willing, Previte recorded it all: the secrets, the murder, the mayhem. And the Cosa Nostra never saw the end coming. In The Last Gangster, award-winning journalist and author George Anastasia tells the riveting and remarkable true story of Ron Previte's betrayal and how a ruthless criminal organization was brought down by one of its own.Anastasia, George is the author of 'Last Gangster', published 2005 under ISBN 9780060544232 and ISBN 0060544236.