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Fans of insider Mob books should thrill to this account of a guy who wore a wire against the Chicago Outfit and lived to tell the tale...The book also offers a revealing analysis of how the Mob was able to gain a stranglehold over Chicago's government, court system, and police...And it's a thriller, as readers accompany Cooley on sweat-raising stings and meets...A mesmerizing treatise on organized crime. -- Booklist Cooley engagingly recounts his role in sparking Operation Gambat, a sweeping federal corruption probe into Chicago's political and judicial arenas...Cooley does a nice job of taking the reader inside an undercover investigation...Cooley's achievements deserve the wide acclaim this book should garner. -- Publishers Weekly

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Robert Cooley receives grudging assistance from the feds to maintain his new identity. While not in the Witness Protection Program, he remains constantly on the run. He grew up in Chicago and has recently lived in several cities around the country. Hillel Levin has been a contributing writer for the Nation, a staff writer for New York, and editor for Chicago magazine. He is the author of Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John DeLorean and the coauthor of When Corruption Was King. He lives near Chicago. Johnny Heller, winner of dozens of AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a two-time winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration and was named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013.

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