About the Author

Jerry Capeci is one of America s foremost experts on organized crime. A frequent guest on television programs in the United States and Canada, Capeci has co-authored three books about the Mafia and has written scores of articles and features about organized crime for magazines and newspapers. Since 1996, Capeci has written Gang Land, an award-winning online column about the Mafia that evolved from a weekly column he wrote for "New York Daily News" from 1989 to 1995.