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At six-foot-four-inches and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI. Big Jack Falcone, as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syndicate and its illegal activities--from extortion and loan-sharking to assault and murder. The result was a string of busts and a quarter-million-dollar contract put out on his life. Making Jack Falcone tells the incredible true story of Garcia's audacious attempt to become only the second agent (after Donnie Brasco) to become a made man in the Mafia. Readers will join Garcia as he attends Mob School, an intensive course of study designed to teach him everything he needs to know about the Mafia, its operations, and its attitudes. An unprecedented glimpse into the inner workings of the FBI, the book also pulls no punches as Garcia reveals how sometimes the agency ran smoothly and criminals were collared according to plan, while other times tempers flared over the progess of cases. A fascinating inside look at the struggle between law enforcement and organized crime, Making Jack Falcone sheds new light on two organizational cultures that continue to exert an unparalleled grip on the American popular imagination.

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Joaquin Jack Garcia spent twenty-six years as a special agent for the FBI. Working undercover for twenty-four years, he used various aliases to gather evidence on and arrest criminals, from drug dealers and counterfeiters to corrupt city officials and mobsters. Bestselling author Michael Levin is an Amherst College graduate and Columbia Law School-trained attorney whose publishing career includes more than fifty works, including his own novels and nonfiction books, ghostwritten books, a commissioned screenplay, and the script for a DVD series. Among his ghostwritten titles are Dropping the Ball by Dave Winfield and No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage and Basketball by Doug and Jackie Christie. He has also contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Writers Digest, CBS News, and many other outlets and publications. A member of the Massachusetts bar, he has served as a consultant on creativity to the NBC and WB Television Networks and to the largest law firm in Los Angeles. Bestselling author Michael Levin is an Amherst College graduate and Columbia Law School-trained attorney whose publishing career includes more than fifty works, including his own novels and nonfiction books, ghostwritten books, a commissioned screenplay, and the script for a DVD series. Among his ghostwritten titles are Dropping the Ball by Dave Winfield and No Ordinary Love: A True Story of Marriage and Basketball by Doug and Jackie Christie. He has also contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Writers Digest, CBS News, and many other outlets and publications. A member of the Massachusetts bar, he has served as a consultant on creativity to the NBC and WB Television Networks and to the largest law firm in Los Angeles. Dick Hill, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, is one of the most awarded narrators in the business, having earned several Audie Awards and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he has both acted in and written for the theater.

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