Accardo

The Genuine Godfather



William F. Roemer, Jr.



For forty years Tony Accardo was America's most dangerous criminal. He cut his teeth on the Chicago mob wars of Al Capone and Elliot Ness. He got his nickname "Joe Batters" for killing two men with a baseball bat. As the bodies piled up, Capone's youngest capo murdered and schemed his way to the top. William Roemer was the first FBI agent to face Tony "The Big Tuna" Accardo. Noe Roemer tells the story that only he could tell: the deals, the hits, the doublecrosses, and the power plays that reached from the Windy City to Hollywood and to New York. Drawing on secret wiretaps and inside information, ACCARDO chronicles bloodshed and mayhem for more than six decades-as Roemer duels against the most powerful don of them all....




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