The Mad Ones : Crazy Joe and the Revolution at the Edge of the Underworld EPUB

The Mad Ones chronicles the rise and fall of the Gallo brothers, a trio ofreckless young gangsters whose revolution against New York City's Mafiawas inspired by Crazy Joe Gallo's forays into Greenwich Village counterculture.

Crazy Joe, Kid Blast, and Larry Gallo are steeped in legend, from Bob Dylan'seleven-minute ballad ';Joey' to fictionalizations central to The Godfathertrilogy and Jimmy Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Calledthe toughest gang in the city by the NYPD, the Gallos hailed from therough Red Hook neighborhood on the Brooklyn waterfront. As low-levelMafiosi, they were expected to serve their don quietly, but the brothersstood apart from typical gangsters with their hip style, fierce ambition,and Crazy Joe's manic idealism.

Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the Gallos' war againstthe powerful Cosa Nostra, an epic crime saga that culminates in CrazyJoe's murder on the streets of Little Italy, where he was gunned downmid-bite into a forkful of spaghetti in 1972. The Mad Ones is a wildlysatisfying entertainment and a significant work of cultural history.