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Il Dottore: The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor
Author(s): Ron Felber (Author)
- Publisher: Barricade Books
- Publication Date: October 25, 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1569802785
- ISBN-13: 9781569802786
Book Description
The gripping story of the man who was the doctor to all of the top NY mafioso in the 70s and 80s, who got caught in the middle of a federal investigation.
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
In the guise of a biography of Mob-connected surgeon Elliott Litner, Felber presents a rambling history of the American Mafia and its Sicilian roots and intertwined profiles of former prosecutor and New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and erstwhile “Teflon Don” John Gotti. Litner grew up in an Italian and Jewish neighborhood. As a schoolboy he covered for the son of a local caporegieme; later he matriculated from low-scale academic fraud to the wise guys’ payroll. Ultimately, he faced a moral decision regarding a mafioso whose survival would be inconvenient, but by then, with Giuliani apparently triumphant and Gotti in jail, the Mob was in shambles. Introduced to Litner by godfather Joseph Bonano’s son Bill, Felber became “enamored with the notion” of Litner’s double life as “high-society Manhattan physician” and “sex addict and inveterate gambler working secretly for the Mafia.” Felber depends on long conversations Litner reported verbatim, and some may be annoyed that he fails to reveal significant details of Litner’s sex addiction. Mike Tribby
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