{"product_id":"book-c43w","title":"The Big Heist","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe crime that inspired the movie \u003ci\u003eGoodfellas\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eThe story that couldn't be told-until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend-and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this legendary unsolved case using recent evidence from the 2015 trial of eighty-year-old Mafia don Vincent Asaro, who for the first time speaks out on his role in the fateful Lufthansa heist. This blistering you-are-there account takes you behind the headlines and inside the ranks of America's infamous crime families-with never-before-told stories, late-breaking news, and bombshell revelations:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew details on the heist's planning: who was involved, how they pulled it off, and what really happened to the almost $6 million in cash and jewels they stole from JFK Airport\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy suspected heist participant Vincent Asaro was found not guilty of all charges-racketeering, theft, and murder-even after being observed by the FBI for more than three decades\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe shocking discovery of human bones in a Queens home belonging to a relative of Jimmy Burke, the homicidal Lucchese crime family associate who assembled the Lufthansa heist team-and masterminded the caper, then the biggest cash robbery in American history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe eye-opening testimony of gangsters-turned-informants Salvatore Vitale and Gaspar Valenti-and what it reveals about the Mafia code of silence known as \u003ci\u003eOmerta\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe greed, betrayal, murder, and other frightening insights into  the Bonanno and Lucchese  crime families\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisturbing claims about how some members of the NYPD leaked information to mobster Jimmy Burke and may have helped hide evidence of a mob murder victim's demise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn invaluable addition to any crime library, this is the most complete, thorough, and up-to-date account of the Lufthansa heist currently available. Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony DeStefano draws from his years of experience reporting on the mob for New York\u003ci\u003e Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e-as well as his firsthand coverage of the Asaro indictment and attendance at the trial-to expose the all-too-human heart of organized crime in America. \u003ci\u003eThe Big Heist\u003c\/i\u003e is thrilling, shocking, and impossible to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49294745207088,"sku":"BDc43w","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49294745239856,"sku":"ZEc43w","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49294745272624,"sku":"ZMc43w","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/c43w-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775818519","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c43w","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}