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Product Description Unheard of for one man in the criminal underworld to garner such a complex network, MAFIA INTERNATIONAL is a riveting memoir which offers insights not to be found in other organized crime stories. John Alite explains how he extended his relationships with other mafia factions across the United States and, by embracing different people through his connections that spanned over ten countries, constructed his own INTERNATIONAL MAFIA empire. How he become connected to this world in the first place and found himself digging ever deeper into the quagmire of organized crime makes it a standout in literature. Review Few books chart the journey into the crime world as powerfully John Alite's Mafia International. Perhaps this is because of Alite's high-level involvement in the Mafia. He was also known as Johnny Alletto, an Albanian-American former Gambino crime family associate who made the decision to testify against his 'family' after being charged with murders, international drug dealing, and having learned he had been betrayed by the Gottis and the leadership of captains while Alite was in Brazilian jails, having been captured while on the run. As an Albanian, they thought they could all point at him. As Alite confesses in the opening paragraphs of his book: "I immersed myself further and further into the matrix of the mafia and beyond. I extended my relationships with other mafia factions across the United States and constructed my own international drug connections. I had associations with drug cartels in over ten countries and a vast network of buyers and sellers across the globe. How he become connected to this world in the first place and found himself digging ever deeper into the quagmire of organized crime makes for a riveting memoir and true crime story that should be on the shelves of any collection strong in Mafia exposés. This is no quick overview of this world. Alite's intimate relationship to not just criminals but the economic and political extent of their activities traces the building blocks of his criminal involvements in explicit detail: "By the early nineties, this very drug ring I established and ran would earn the Gambino family almost a million dollars a month and sometimes more. This type of generated income allowed me not only move in and among higher circles, but I became privy to so much. The fact that I grew up and was friends with many sons whose fathers held high positions within the mafia worked to my advantage as well." From his considerations of power plays and deceit that operated both above-board and underlay many of these relationships to his crime partners, friendships, and the perceptions of Mafia members who ran in these circles, his story embraces different people, circumstances, and experiences. Alite's clashes, realizations, and moves from the crime world to international operations and then prison is especially intriguing because he operates in no singular circle, and holds the ability to not just move into Mafia operations and murder, but to ultimately use his experiences as growth opportunities to change, even as the Mafia embraces overseas operations. Any collection strong in true crime reads must add Mafia International to their holdings. It is a standout in the literature. -Mid West Book Review About the Author Since his first incarceration at age 17, John Alite has been known as a mobster. Now, he's attempting to change that perception people have of him and hopefully save a few teens from making the same mistakes he did. A former enforcer for the Gambino crime family and close confidante to the John Gotti family, John has been in and out of jail (mostly in) for a large portion of his adult life. He hit a turning point though which has now led him down a path of which he can be proud...and alive. When you get in deep enough and are caught in their web, you realize there's no way out. In his former world, wh