A must-listen for anyone fascinated with Mafia history - and a rare inside account of the rise of the "Springfield Crew" in Massachusetts, its ties with the Genovese Crime Family of New York, and its evolution into the present-day Mob.This crime story is 100% true. From the personal diary of a man sitting in his jail cell awaiting trial.

The story follows Giuseppe “Joseph” Parisi, who guns down the “King of Bootleggers,” Carlo Siniscalchi, a ruthless crime boss, as his limousine idled against the curb. The ferocious and devastating retaliatory attack that follows on Parisi’s unsuspecting family and attorney. A car-to-car exchange of gunfire between mob gunmen on a desolate Connecticut roadway.

The electrifying trial had over 2,000 people huddled around the courthouse, awaiting every word uttered from within by Parisi’s defense attorney, the future Governor of Massachusetts. The Bootleg Queen, Pasqualina Siniscalchi-Miranda, ferociously and savagely ambushed by a gang of ruthless mafia hitmen, marking the first time the mob put a hit on a woman. A notorious gangster, Michael Fiore, sitting in a barber chair with a towel draped over his shoulders, suddenly a target of a burst of bullets.

Family insider Nick Parisi reveals the truth behind the legends, disclosing for the first time the unforgiving aftermath of the Mafia lifestyle, with the compelling drive of a thriller and the power of a painfully honest family memoir.

All names, events, and conversations in this book are real and carefully documented from the newspapers of the era, reporter interviews, trial and law enforcement archives, author Nick Parisi's family conversations, as well as the personal diary of the alleged killer, Giuseppe "Joseph" Parisi.

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