Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business.

PISTONE, Joe and Charles Brandt.

$500.00

Item Number: 147903

Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007.

First edition of this account of the FBI agent’s undercover operation. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco) on the title page, “Howard Best Wishes Regards Joe Pistone Donnie Brascoe.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

In 1976, FBI agent Joseph Pistone volunteered to go undercover in the Bonanno crime family, assuming the identity of Donald "Donnie" Brasco to infiltrate and report on their activity. What was initially intended to last for around six months became several years of informing which led to over 200 indictments and over 100 convictions. After the operation's end in 1981, Pistone composed a book about the experience in his 1988 'Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia,' the basis for the 1997 film starring Johnny Depp as Pistone and Al Pacino as Pistone's Mafia tutor "Lefty" Ruggiero. Now living in an undisclosed location, Pistone continues to publish books, participate in media coverage of the events, and consult with worldwide law enforcement agencies on matters of organized crime.