- ISBN13: 9780061665363
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Product Description
A classic masterwork newly updated The electrifying true story of the rise and fall of New York’s notorious Bonanno crime family On New York’s Park Avenue on a rainy Tuesday night in October 1964, the famous Mafia chieftain Joseph Bonanno was kidnapped by two mobsters and reported by the police as dead on the following morning. More than a year later, Bonanno mysteriously reappeared, setting off a bloody mob feud that came to be known as the ?Banana War.? … More >>
#1 by Eric Aros on April 24, 2010 - 8:20 pm
This has to be the most boring mafia book that I have ever read in my life. It seemed to drag on forever. The detail of some issues bored me and that’s why it took me six months to read the book.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by D. Greenberg on April 24, 2010 - 10:01 pm
Is as far as I could get. It wasn’t even good falling asleep material. I soak up every half decent book on the mob. This ain’t.
I understand the author is a journalist. Probly on the business page. It’s that kind of droll style.
It’s weird cause the title and author are almost household names. Undeserved.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Mcgivern Owen L on April 24, 2010 - 11:45 pm
“Honor Thy Father” is a highly santized look at the Bonanno crime family, one of the infamous “Five Families” in the New York Mafia.The principal character is the son of the Family Boss. Because the author had the cooperation of the Bonannos in writing “HTF”, a reader can scarcely expect any juicy “inside the mafia” expose. And, of course, that is exactly what the reader will NOT get. The story suffers further by its’ studied, almost languid pace. Ultimately, “Honor Thy Father” is a tale leading nowhere and signifying nothing. The one and only saving grace is the historical background provided on the OTHER New York area families and the intrigues, betrayals, rubouts, deportations, etc that have provided so much entertainment. I remember the unsuccesful”hit” on Frank Costello and the succesful Park Sheraton Hotel hit on Albert Anastasia (in his barber chair at the Park Sheraton Hotel)because, at different times,I lived near the sites. On my way to school,I daily walked past Frank Costello’s apartment building at 115 Central Park West. Other than this New York Mob trivia, “Honor Thy Father” has zero to offer. And nowhere between the pages is a single “honorable” act performed. Readers should look elsewhere for tales of honor or of the Mafia.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Anonymous on April 25, 2010 - 12:24 am
I could not put this book down
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 25, 2010 - 1:35 am
Mario Puzo’s God Father had triggered the people to turn their attention to the Mafia, the Organized crime in the USA. And one of our outstanding reporter,author had the courage to live among those crimals, record their daily life and activities, even listen the top boss to give order, a contract, to make somebody disappear. Things like that can only happen in the USA. We, the people in Taiwan, certain hope that we can do or have the same things.
Rating: 4 / 5