Carmine the Snake

In the golden age of organised crime, Carmine ''The Snake'' Persico was the King of the Streets. The defacto boss of the Colombo Mafia family since the 1970s, he oversaw gang wars, murders, and major rackets, even from prison. In this blistering street-level account, ''Mafia survivor'' Frank Dimatteo teams up with true-crime master Michael Benson to take down one of the most notorious figures in the American La Cosa Nostra. This is the real inside story of Carmine Persico.