Tommy 'Karate' Pitera was not like other men in the mob. Sure he was a made man for the Bonanno crime family. Sure he killed people. But there was something different about him, something unhinged. There were stories, rumors really, that floated around about Pitera. The rumors talked about the strange ways that he killed people and the things he did when he was angry. The rumors discussed how people had a way of disappearing when Pitera was around, and a secret cemetery he had somewhere in the five boroughs, a place where the bodies of his victims would remain forever nameless. Philip Carlo explores the man behind some of the most horrific murders in the mob's history and the multi-year DEA investigation that brought him down. A dual tale of murder, drugs, money, and ultimately justice, The Butcher gives us Carlo's most frightening portrayal yet of the depraved depths of the psychopath's mind.
- ISBN10 0061885029
- ISBN13 9780061885020
- Publish Date 1 March 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 July 2016
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 470
- Language English