The story of "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, second in command to John Gotti in the nation's most powerful crime family and the highest ranking member of "la Cosa Nostra" ever to defect. Illustrations.

The story of "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, second in command to John Gotti in the nation's most powerful crime family and the highest ranking member of "la Cosa Nostra" ever to defect. Illustrations.

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.