The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia Hardcover – 9 May 2013

This was a fascinating and exciting story.The characters were real people who took me inside of their club to see where the action was. I thought this book might be about the mafia that J.Carol Johnson told of in The Lonely Life of a Pornographer's Wife. I though her mafia men were brutal until I read what Sal Polisi had to say. His mafia was the real deal--the actual big bad guys and wise guys from the Gambini, Columbo and Gottti Families! I remember hearing about those men in the news, on TV and in the movies, But Polisi was right there in the middle of everything and let the readers know what actually happened. This was an exciting book and I'm sure I'll be reading again some day.

Awesome book covering a great era in Mob history. Sally Ubatz gives it to you straight from beginning to end. There were stories and facts I never knew. You won't be disappointed.

A great nook for the real Frank fan. Some stuff is not read anywhere else due to the very close relationship at the books heart. Barbara Sinatra doesn’t come out of it well. But others do. Including Frank.

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As some of the reviewers say, the book got way too repetitive, and about the wrong things. We really didnt need to have 20% of the book be about this guys voracious sexual appetite which if 2/3 of it is true, he needed to be a porn star or have himself checked out for a very, very over-active prostate gland. -). That said, I bet money that while some of these things you heard before, there are definitely stories you did not here before! EG-Did you know that Tommy Desimone came within a hair of blowing away John Gotti? Did you also know that John had him killed years later for a different beef? And the stuff Sal lays out about the JFK assassination clearly being a mob hit is worth the price alone. No he cant offer any proof, but the things we know about the old bosses at that time, it all makes sense.Great stuff we never knew about Hoffa too. What I always wanted to know and this book finally answered is how much did the guys from the movies Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco and the movie Gotti know each other as the movies spanned 3 decades and different families. Sal shows us... a lot more than we thought! Now...did Sal leave out a lot of really bad things he did to get where he got and earn all this respect? Id say yes. He makes it seem like he is almost a nice guy but I do not buy it. I think that Steve Dougherty helped clean up a lot of things that would have turned us all off. But as far as a page turner...if you have a whole weekend off and its raining outside...this book could keep you busy. And Steve , you write with the easy reading style and clarity of a Pileggi, a Breslin or Gay Talese. I just want to know the biggest question, how could Sal have written this book and still be alive? He has to be one shrewd guy, this Polisi. I think it is because he had the class to not talk bad about any of the people in the book to anger their families. Both of them. Book is 384 pages and I read it in 3 days! Would give 5 stars if he didn't fill 20% of the book or more with his sex life and chasing women. Here's the summary:He was a good looking guy and a chick magnet to begin with, could spend money on anything a woman wanted, was lucky enough to almost never get caught stealing, and decided since tomorrow may never come, he decided to screw himself to death. The End! We should all be so lucky. -)