The Sixth Family

The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto

By: Lee Lamothe, Adrian Humphreys

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

The definitive book about the explosive Rizzuto crime family

On May 5, 1981, three rebellious members of New York's Bonanno crime family were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club. One of the gunmen was Vito Rizzuto, a man who would rise to the top of the underworld in Canada and then expand his reign across continents to become a global superboss.

The Sixth Family, now revised and updated, reveals the hidden history of the rise of the Rizzuto clan, the alliances it forged around the world, and the bloody events that led to charges against Vito Rizzuto in the United States and Italy for racketeering and corruption. As police in the United States, Italy, and Canada meticulously pieced together the puzzle that is Vito Rizzuto, established notions about the nature of authority within the Mafia were called into question. Who was this so-called "John Gotti of Canada"? How did he become one of the biggest names in global crime? And how did he survive the deadly assault from gangland rivals that almost destroyed his family?

©2008, 2014 Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys (P)2019 Tantor

How it all worked, end to end

This is well-researched and thorough. It is not the most flashy-entertaining writing style, but it moves along fine, and is an education in how all this was done, and by whom. It shows the motivations of all the participants.

great book.

new very little about the Canadian mob. great to hear more detail on what i did know and how Rizzuto fit in with the american mob. it's always very interesting to hear different views from different people who know or participated in events already talked about in different books or documentaries. when you're tired of hearing about the American mob it's a very interesting and refreshing change. a lot of great stories and a lot of interesting events. as good as i hoped it would be. narrator was good and no complaints.

The volume of information

Treasure trove of info Canada , Vito is the real deal , Sixth Family don’t play around

Excellent in depth of Vito Rizzuto

I have read / listened to upwards of 100 mafia related books. However, I only knew of the Canada faction from passages of books on the New York families. It was a nice change and very interesting tale of one of the top bosses of his generation. Usually the narrator doesn't really matter in these kind of books. They aren't doing voices and they aren't trying to create a movie around the narration. Still, Danny Campbell was tough to get used to. This is a really long book so eventually his voice doesn't grate at you so much, but it takes a while.

Great stuff

Real mafioso no joke . A hardcore look at Canadian Mafia they are no joke .So many good lines.