Mobfather: The Story of a Wife and a Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia

George Anastasia

  • Mobfather: The Story of a Wife and a Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia

$ 17.95

Pages 320 pages with 29 photographs
Size 6" x 9"
ISBN 978-0-940159-99-0-1
Tags ebook, Philadelphia, True Crime
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  • Mobfather: The Story of a Wife and a Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia

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George Anastasia has crafted a gangland masterpiece. You see the murderous Philadelphia mob through the eyes of a turncoat and relive the daily horror of life in his home from the words of the wife and son whose lives he nearly destroyed.
Jerry Capeci, columnist, GangLandNews.com, former columnist, New York Daily News

George Anastasia [is] our most important chronicler of the decline and fall of Italian America’s dark glory, La Cosa Nostra.

Bill Tonelli, former editor, Esquire and Rolling Stone

 

In Mobfather, George Anastasia exposes what it really means to be married to the mob—and fathered by it. As revealed in their harrowing personal accounts, life for the wife and sons of Thomas “Tommy Del” DelGiorno became a descent into hell. When Maryann Welch ignored misgivings on her wedding day and plunged into marriage with the small-time gangster, she could not have foreseen how swiftly his greed and bloodlust would propel him to the highest ranks of the South Philadelphia Mafia.

In the end, guilty of a raft of crimes that included multiple murders, Tommy Del served less than a year in prison in exchange for turning government witness during a dozen trials against fellow mobsters. Revisiting his gangland classic, the author follows up on the fates of all the major players. Based on years of reporting, thousands of pages of court testimony, and extensive interviews, Mobfather takes the reader deep into the heart of corruption.

 

About the Author

George Anastasia, a former reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is the author of five books of nonfiction. Four of these, including Mobfather, are about the Philadelphia mob. He has won many awards for investigative journalism and magazine writing.

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