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Good fellow, capo, killer, thief.

A man so diabolically evil that he ordered his eldest son to murder his closest associate and his youngest, to murder his best friend.

When Greg Scarpa was in his early 20s, he became a good fellow in the Profacci family by

swearing a blood oath to the mafia. At the time, the country's largest organized crime

syndicate. And for 25 years, he betrayed that oath and the men closest to him by acting as a

paid informant for the FBI. He fed America's premier law enforcement agency a steady stream of

self-serving information, accusing the men who trusted him with their lives of every crime he was himself committing.

During those 25 years of treachery, Scarpa was a one-man crime wave who spent only 30 days

behind bars, thanks to his status as the FBI's ultimate mafia insider.

His standing as a prized informant freedom to engage in mayhem and murder,

knowing he had a virtual license to kill.

Greg Scarpa, legendary evil, is a deep dive that provides fresh insight into Scarpa's malignant personality. Dyer peels back the layers

of myth and misdirection to paint as complete and accurate a picture as possible, of a man who

murdered his enemies and betrayed his friends, of a bigamist who loved only money, of a feared and reviled man whose destructive

appetites knew no bounds. The book that we're featuring this evening is Greg Scarpa,

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