The Bonannos: A Century of Murder

The complete, sweeping, and destructively bloody history of New York’s Bonanno crime family and its blindly driven namesake, from inception in 1800s Sicily to present day.

By the time the Bonannos—hailing from the seaside Sicilian town, Castellammare del Golfo—emigrated to America at the turn of the 20th century, the foundations of the Italian Mafia were deeply woven into the fabric of the nation’s largest metropolis, and ambition was in young Joseph Bonanno’s blood. At 26 and wise beyond hi...