Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business

Readers who don't know Donnie Brasco, either the book or the movie, which detailed how young Pistone managed to float in the sewer of Mafia scum, won't get what Unfinished Business is all about. But those who remember rasco

will be eager to know the rest of the story, 20 years after

Pistone/Brasco recounted how he infiltrated the New York Mafia and how

his testimony led to a series of investigations that emasculated the

five New York families. The rationalization for this follow-up volume is

that, now that the trials have come to fruition, Pistone can tell more about

how he worked undercover and how he testified. There's a great deal of

filler here (we don't really need to know about what a nice guy Johnny

Depp was on the set of the movie Donnie Brasco), but there is

also enough deep background about working undercover, enough truly

hair-raising reminiscences of close calls, and enough reflection on how

far an undercover agent submerges himself before losing a moral compass

to make this worthwhile reading--providing you're a fan of the first Donnie Brasco. Connie FletcherCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved