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This is the true story of Carmine Imbrialea gambler a brawler a bandit a bookie an enforcer For two decades Imbriale was a streetlevel operative in one of the most violent crews in the Colombo Family

Now in hiding Imbriale teams up with truecrime veteran writer Craig McGuire to take you inside the Thirteenth Avenue rackets at the height of their violence This is the jarring account of his lawless lifestyle culminating in a gang war in South Brooklyn from which he emerges a survivor

From his first arrest at fifteen for robbing a Coney Island pimp to surviving multiple assassination attempts Imbriale offers up dozens of toogoodtobetrue tales featuring some of the most notorious gangsters as well as other lions and lackeys of La Cosa Nostra and details a beef with none other than Greg The Grim Reaper Scarpa Sr

A young streetwise hustler Imbriale thought he found loyalty a brotherhood Instead he descended into a world of treachery and deceit where your best friend is your executioner and no one gets out alive But no one expected him to become the domino that helped bring it all down

Contains mature themes