Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob
Language: English
Published by Union Square Press, 2008
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In 1975, whilst working as a New Jersey State Trooper, the author was approached with a tantalising yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. He accepted. This book reveals the clandestine life the author led before becoming one of professional basketball's most respected referees.
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- Title
- Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob
- Author
- Bob Delaney
- Publisher
- Union Square Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1402754434
- ISBN 13
- 9781402754432
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In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New Jersey State Trooper when his superiors approached him with a tantalizing yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational business used by law enforcement as flypaper for snagging crooks.
At the height of The Godfather era, Delaney wore a wire and lived among wiseguys who modeled themselves on their on-screen counterparts, quoting lines from “The Movie” and boasting of how often they’d seen it. Delaney even crossed paths with Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco (though neither knew the other was undercover), knowing all the while that a single slip could get him killed.
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Dave Scheiber is a nationally-recognized and award-winning sports and news features writer at the St. Petersburg Times. His work has appeared in numerous publications and, early in his career, he was a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated, which called him "one of the most talented young sportswriters in America."
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