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Jimmy Breslin's book, "The Good Rat: A True Story," tells the story of a street-savvy mobster named Jimmy who is trying to survive in the mafia during its golden era. Breslin captures the world of the mafia and the colorful characters that make up the underworld. The book follows Jimmy's rise and fall in the mafia, as well as the events that define organized crime during this time period.
In a street-savvy journey behind the scenes of the Mafia during its golden era, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the people, places, and events that defined organized crime, capturing the world of such colorful figures as John Gotti, Vito Genovese, Sammy the Bull, and others, and tracing the rise and fall of the mob in New York. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.