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The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
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Written by the bestselling author of "The Ice Man", "The Butcher" is a gripping and disturbing fly-on-the-wall account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's four-year hunt to bring down Tommy 'Karate' Pitera, a drug-dealing, murderous capo in the Bonanno crime family. Born in 1954 and raised in Gravesend, Brooklyn, Pitera was a thin boy with a high-pitched voice who was bullied as a result of his feminine voice. As a teenager, he became obsessed with martial arts and with a religious fervour began studying karate to protect himself. After winning a karate tournament, he travelled to Japan, where he was trained by a martial arts expert for three years. Upon returning home in 1974, Pitera was a very different human being. Quiet and introspective, sullen and aloof, he had developed his body into a fighting machine. He began associating with gangsters from the Bonanno family and was soon dealing drugs on a huge scale, while simultaneously embarking on a killing spree that spanned almost two decades. In 1992, Pitera was sentenced to life in prison for murdering six people and supporting a massive drug-dealing operation. Yet this covered only a fraction of the crimes he committed. Pitera is thought to have murdered more than 60 people, cutting many of his victims into pieces before burying them on Staten Island. Exhaustively researched and written with the cooperation of the DEA agents who hunted Pitera down, "The Butcher" is the perfect good-versus-evil story and will send shivers down the spine of even the most hardened true-crime reader.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #6265 in Books
- Published on: 2009-06-04
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
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About the Author
Philip Carlo is the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Night Stalker and Gaspipe. He lives in New York.
Customer Reviews
GREAT READ A MUST READ
This book is an extremley intesting read that keeps the reader hooked throughout, the content provides a quality account of the workings of the mafia and the life of Tony Pierta if you like true life crime this is a must read highly reccomended.
