Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story by Bill BonannoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Besides being an inside report of life as a mafioso, this book has three big, interrelated themes: The Banana Wars among the American mafia, the decline of the American mafia, and the assassination of JFK. The interrelation is that they were in a mesh of reinforcing causes. The actual details of the War seem distracting minutiae: The stabilizing role of The Commission, once eroded led to internal violence and violence leaking out, eventually effectively destroying the institution. Part of this reminds me of a book a read looking at some L.A. street gangs - when run "well", violence was kept internal. Here, the eroding of the Mafia (in this few) from external causes (RFK, where he sees a mob conspiracy around Thane Eugene Cesar and an unleased FBI (author claims to have seen and identify the source of the JEH in drag pics that kept him in line) and eventually the presidential assassination from an untethered Traficante etc. mixed with miffed anti-Castro forces all from a talkative sewer darin shooter Johnny Roselli.
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