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This is the story of a Mob lawyer turned mole with a million-dollar contract on his head who has clanged back and forth between sin and sainthood like a church bell clapper—a turbulent youth, a stint on Chicago’s police force, law school, and then the inner sanctum of Chicago’s Mob bosses and political leaders. With wild abandon he chased crooked acquittals for the likes of Pat Marcy, former henchman of Al Capone, who had become the Mob’s key political operative; ruthless Mafia Capo and gambling czar Marco D’Amico; and notorious hit man Harry Aleman. He dined with Mob bosses and shared "last suppers" with friends before their gangland executions. With Cooley on their side, the Mob controlled the courts, the cops, the politicians, and could fend off the Feds. In a startling act of conscience, Cooley walked into the office of the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force and agreed to wear a wire on the same Mafia overlords who had made him a player.
Having sent two dozen mobsters and public officials to prison, the man who bulldozed the Chicago Mob tells a tale of transgression and redemption in a book that reveals the personal story behind the federal government’s most successful Mafia investigation.