The Sinatra Club

My Life Inside the New York Mafia

By: Sal Polisi, Steve Dougherty

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America...until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional crime family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi.

As a member of New York's feared Colombo Family, Polisi ran the Sinatra Club, an illegal after-hours gambling den that was a magic kingdom of crime and a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters like John Gotti and the three wiseguys immortalized in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas - Henry Hill, Jimmy Burke, and Tommy DeSimone. But the nonstop thrills of Polisi's criminal glory days abruptly ended when he was busted for drug trafficking.

Already sickened by the bloodbath that engulfed the Mob as it teetered toward extinction, he flipped and became one of a breed he had loathed all his life - a rat. In this shocking, pulse-pounding, and, at times, darkly hilarious first-person chronicle, he paints a never-before-seen picture of a larger-than-life secret underworld that, thanks to guys like him, no longer exists.

©2012 Sal Polisi (P)2017 Tantor

All Around Great Listen (One of the best in genre)

This book grabs you from start to finish. Get a lot of great stories and scenes from a new perspective, especially around Gotti and and the Gambino family. Also gives you more insight into the day-to-day life and how vice-driven the life really is underneath it all. If you are a mafia buff or looking for a good read on La Cosa Nostra, this one is for you.

great book

I love reading and listening to real life mafia books and memoirs and I have to say that this one is in my top 3 possibly # 1 I recommend it to any mafia true crime fan.

Great Book

Loved it, good read, good story. Better then the other book of his life "Sins of the Father".

great listen !

loved it from start to finish ! the narration was excellent ! ubatz ! You crazy mother fucker !

Great read!

I really appreciate Sal sharing his crazy life experiences with us. He lived a crazy life. this is one of the more honest and better mob books I've read.