Joseph D. Pistone
The broad outlines of FBI agent Joe Pistone’s six-year sojourn undercover as jewel thief “Donnie Brasco” will be familiar to anyone who saw the movie version of Pistone’s story. At incredible risk to himself and his family he infiltrated the Mafia, doing it so well that he was on verge of becoming a “made guy”. It’s a cliche, but, as good as the movie was, the book is better. The book, in addition to being more accurate than the movie, does a better job of conveying the year-in, year-out, unrelenting tension of his second life.