The Sixth Family: The Collapse of The New York Mafia and The Rise of Vito Rizzuto

Written by Lee Lamothe and Adrian Humphreys

Narrated by Danny Campbell

The definitive book about the explosive Rizzuto crime family

On May 5, 1981, three rebellious members of New York's Bonanno crime family were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club. One of the gunmen was Vito Rizzuto, a man who would rise to the top of the underworld in Canada and then expand his reign across continents to become a global superboss.

The Sixth Family, now revised and updated, reveals the hidden history of the rise of the Rizzuto clan, the alliances it forged around the world, and the bloody events that led to charges against Vito Rizzuto in the United States and Italy for racketeering and corruption. As police in the United States, Italy, and Canada meticulously pieced together the puzzle that is Vito Rizzuto, established notions about the nature of authority within the Mafia were called into question. Who was this so-called "John Gotti of Canada"? How did he become one of the biggest names in global crime? And how did he survive the deadly assault from gangland rivals that almost destroyed his family?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Nov 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781515947387

Reviews for The Sixth Family

[datrappert · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This compelling story of the Rizzuto crime family in Montreal is somewhat marred by slightly confusing chronology and the fact that the book has been added to without revising the previous chapters, so it seems to come to a stop then start back up again. use of the present tenses in places is also confusing. What isn't confusing is the power and ferocity of the Rizzutos, especially Vito, the main subject of the book. The crime and corruption in Montreal starts to make the situation in New York look mild by comparison. Eventually, all the secrets can't be kept hidden, people talk, and folks go to jail, even when investigated the often inept Canadian police or tried by the over-lenient Canadian judiciary. The big question is...who run's Montreal's rackets now that Vito is gone?

[scrub_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very well written book. For anyone living in Montreal, this book will give you the chills. Places are mentioned in this book that we know, but that we don't know what goes on behind the doors. For anyone just interested in a book on the Mafia, the Rizzuto's are the last authentic Cosa Nostra in North America. They do things old school.