making jack falcone an undercover fbi agent takes down a mafia family
petey chops wasnt kicking up . and if he didnt start soon he was going to get whacked . so begins making jack falcone the extraordinary true story of an undercover fbi agents years long investigation of the gambinos which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family . br but long before joaquin jack garcia found himself wearing a wire with some of the mafias top capos he was one of the fbis unlikeliest recruits . a cuban born american jack graduated from quantico standing six foot four and weighing 300 pounds not your typical g man . jacks stature soon proved an asset as the fbi looked to place agents undercover with drug smugglers counterfeiters and even killers . jack became one of the few fbi agents dedicated solely to undercover work . br using a series of carefully created aliases jack insinuated himself in the criminal world from the badlands of philadelphia where he was a gregarious money launderer to the streets of miami where an undercover garcia moved stolen and illicit goods and brought down dirty cops . jack jumped at the opportunity to infiltrate the shadowy world of la cosa nostra but how would the cuban american convince wiseguys that he was one of their own a sicilian capable of earning his button getting made in the mafia for the first time the fbi created a special mob school for jack teaching him how to eat talk and think like a wiseguy . and it wasnt long before the freshly minted jack falcone found himself under the wing of one of the gambinos old school capos greg depalma . depalma who cared for an ailing john gotti in prison introduced falcone to his world of shakedowns beatings and envelopes of cash never suspecting that one of his trusted crew members was a federal agent . br a page turning account of the struggle between law enforcement and organized crime that will rank with such classic stories as donnie brasco serpico and wiseguy making jack falcone is an unforgettable trip into americas underworld through the eyes of a highly decorated fbi veteran .