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In his inimitable Ny speech, Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jimmy Breslin provides us an examine the keyhole in the people and places define the Mafia—characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (called for his tool of preference), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito—interwoven using the amazing true crime tale of the great rat herself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the current test of two NYPD investigators indicted for undertaking eight gangland executions. Through these memorable true-living and long-overlooked Mafia tales, Jimmy Breslin catches the occasions where the mob was damaged and created.