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Al DeMeo will never forget the day in 1992 when a coworker taunted him with a copy of the hot new book Murder Machine chronicling the horrific criminal life of DeMeos father Roy the head of the most deadly gang in organized crime The moment sent DeMeo into a psychological tailspin How could he have spent his life looking up to and loving a vicious killer

For the Sins of My Father recounts the chilling rise and fall of the man who led the Gambino familys most fearsome killers and thieves through the eyes of a son who had never known any other kind of life Coming of age in an opulent Long Island house where money is abundant but its source is unclear Al becomes Roys confidant sent to call in loans at age fourteen and gradually coming to understand his fathers job descriptionloan shark car thief porn purveyor and above all murderer But when Al is seventeen Roys body is found in the trunk of a car a gangland slaying that places Al between federal prosecutors seeking his testimony and a mob crew determined to keep him quiet

With the implacable narrative drive of a thriller and the power of a painfully honest memoir For the Sins of My Father presents a startling and unprecedented perspective on the underworld of organized crime exposing for the first time the cruel legacy of a Mafia life