Dimensions
111 x 175 x 25mm
The incredible true story of the FBI's most successful undercover agent is an unforgettable eyewitness account of how the Mafia really operates.
There is a Mafia contract out on Joseph Pistone. A contract with no expiry date.
From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia. Only able to visit his young family once every few months, Pistone - under the alias Donnie Brasco - ate, drank, partied, worked, and sometimes killed with the wiseguys. He got so close that his Mafia partner, Lefty Ruggiero, asked him to officiate as best man at his wedding.
Pistone's eventual testimony, in such spectacular prosecutions as "the Pizza Connection" and "the Mafia Commission" resulted in more than 200 indictments and 100 convictions of members of organised crime.
Combining the high tension of a thriller with the riveting detail of a close-up documentary, this extraordinary story lays bare the people and the inner workings of the world's most powerful and chilling crime syndicate.
Now a major motion picture starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
