The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia

Written by Sal Polisi and Steve Dougherty

Narrated by Pete Simonelli

The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America . . . until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional crime Family values.

And by guys like Sal Polisi.

As a member of New York's feared Colombo Family, Polisi ran The Sinatra Club, an illegal after-hours gambling den that was a magic kingdom of crime and a hangout for up-and-coming mobsters like John Gotti and the three wiseguys immortalized in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas-Henry Hill, Jimmy Burke, and Tommy DeSimone. But the nonstop thrills of Polisi's criminal glory days abruptly ended when he was busted for drug trafficking. Already sickened by the bloodbath that engulfed the Mob as it teetered toward extinction, he flipped and became one of a breed he had loathed all his life-a rat. In this shocking, pulse-pounding, and, at times, darkly hilarious first-person chronicle, he paints a never-before-seen picture of a larger-than-life secret underworld that, thanks to guys like him, no longer exists.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Nov 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781541477698

Sal Polisi

Sal Polisi spent much of his life inside the New York Mafia before he flipped and provided testimony against key Family members. No longer under federal witness protection, he has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, and Playboy, and has been interviewed by Larry King, Connie Chung, and Matt Lauer, among others. He works as a screenwriter and playwright and also speaks frequently in schools and at law enforcement gatherings as an organized crime expert. He lives somewhere in America.

Reviews for The Sinatra Club

[Ron Henning · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Super good and very interesting and compelling story
lots of insights to the Bergen crew has a fresh perspective on all the other stories I’ve read

[Jesus Garcia · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I liked all of it because it's about history of the new York mafia.

[knightlight777 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I'm hesitant to review this book, subject to possible repercussions. Just kidding of course. This book is a tell all of former Mob connected soldier Sal Polisi affectionately know as Sally Ubbatz. Ubbatz meaning whacko. Sal turned informant late in his career and testified against John Gotti in the trial he was acquitted before finally being convicted through the turn of Sammy Gravano.Though the book was entertaining at times, if one can describe things of this nature in that way, it left me wondering in light of the author and his character how much was the gospel truth. He was active in the mob during its wild times of the 60's and 70's and knew many of the characters that were depicted in the popular movie, "Goodfellas."Sal pleads throughout the book he came to realize how destructive and despicable his life was in what is termed The Life. Yet even after a number of these awakenings, from a prison term, to his drug dealings, and even a shot at some semi-legitimate businesses, he always seems to gravitate back to the means that got him what he needed, money. His conclusion being this drive for money not only is was drove the mob but for the most part drives everyone else to do what it takes, and in some cases whatever it takes to secure the green goddess.