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Undercover cop : how I brought down the real-life Sopranos /

One moment, New Jersey state trooper Mike Russell was working undercover, playing the role of an up-and-coming mobster hoping to infiltrate a Mafia family crew. The next, he was lying facedown in an alley after being ambushed and shot in the back of the head by a mobster over a dispute. Russell mira...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Michael, 1950-
Other Authors: Picciarelli, Patrick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, [2013]
Subjects:
Russell, Michael, > 1950-
Police > United States > Biography.
Undercover operations > New Jersey.
Mafia > New Jersey > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Fitting in
  • No hard feelings
  • Mikey Ga-Ga : back in the life
  • Balancing act
  • Striking oil
  • We're talking real money here
  • Gathering dirt
  • Here's looking at you, Mikey
  • On the wire
  • One man's garbage--
  • Fed up
  • Back with a vengeance
  • Gangsters "R" us
  • Getting bombed
  • No second takes
  • Takedown.