BREAKING OMERTÀ

They swore an oath of silence that was supposed to be unbreakable. Then ten men broke it anyway.

Breaking Omertà tells the story of the mafia's most consequential informants: the soldiers, bosses, and one undercover FBI agent who turned on organized crime from the inside and changed its history forever. From Joe Valachi's landmark 1963 testimony that first proved the Mafia existed, to Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's betrayal of John Gotti, to Tommaso Buscetta's role in the Sicilian Mafia's Maxi Trial, each chapter traces what drove these men to talk, what they revealed, and what happened to them after.

This is not a celebration of these men. Most were killers. Several walked away with sentences that bore little relationship to their crimes. But without them, the most powerful criminal organizations of the twentieth century might never have been touched. Breaking Omertà is the story of what it cost to break the code - and what it bought.

This audiobook is narrated using AI text-to-speech technology (Microsoft Edge neural voice).