Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family Paperback – 7 Mar. 2023

A book I could not put down, well written and keeps your interest a cross between Donnie Brasco and Goodfellas. Fast service by seller, arrived in perfect condition at a very good price.

Great book and written with a lot of passion. Couldnt put it down and read it in two days in the end.Would recommend to everyone, great author and what a story.

Phat

This book is so badly written and constructed I was disappointed to the point of disgusted. The book hardly tells the story of his time undercover withing the mafia and talks about other cases he was involved in at the time. For an undercover book read Donnie Brasco and avoid this.

Courage and wits while working undercover. A great story from a great agent and public servant. Good review of Bronx and Westchester Italian restaurants. Throughly enjoyed this book.

This is definitely one of the best books I've ever read. Some pictures would have been great, but nevertheless, a good one. Hats off to FBI and it's tireless efforts to control organized crime in USA.

Good and interesting read. It’s amazing how things work and how complex and complicated they can get, especially when the government gets involved.

A true page turner.Set aside some free time-you will not want to put this book down. It is very interesting and entertaining,non-stop/no dull moments.True story,well written-Joaquin:hats off to you brother

Having reviewed some of the less than favorable reviews of Jack Garcia's book, Making Jack Falcone... which compare it to Joe Pistone's book "Donnie Brasco" in a negative way, I just had to respond. While Joe Pistone has to be commended for the excellent work he did undercover as a mob guy remember that Joe was a native born Italian-American who played the role of an Italian-Amerian and ONLY the role of an Italian-American for the years he was undercover with the mob. Jack, on the other hand, was born in Cuba, immigrated to the United States at age nine and didn't even speak english when he arrived in this country, yet was so determined to be a success he eventually became an FBI agent and an undercover FBI agent playing multiple roles at the same time during his lengthy undercover career.As you read the book, which some criticze as being written in a poor writing style, but which I see as being written in a "street agent's" language you come to the realization that for someone born and initially raised in a different culture to have the foresight, stamina, intelligence and guts to learn and act out the American Mob personality in such a successful way to fool an experienced, "stand-up" mafia capo or captain and his entire crew of experienced mob guys for several years deserves nothing but the highest praise for his work, especially when he was switching identities and personalities while working several other cases throughout his time spent as a wiseguy with the Greg DePalma crew.I too am an experienced FBI undercover agent, albeit retired now, and I'll be the first to admit that I can count on one hand the number of FBI undercover agents, the world's best, who have the capability and the guts to work multiple cases with multiple identities like Jack did, especially when one slip in an undercover situation where a mob family in New York or a drug gang in Philadelphia makes you as a traitor can mean certain death, even though you're a cop.And give Jack credit where credit is due, i.e., to work other groups such as Asian organized crime as he describes in the Royal Charm case involving counterfeit cigarette smuggling and the importation of millions of dollars in counterfeit bills from North Korea and the heavy weapons ordered up from the Peoples Republic of China.And as you read and digest this information presented in this book and realize the scope of criminal problems facing this country, as revealed just by the undercover activities of a Cuban-born nine-year-old who came to this country years ago determined to make a difference ask yourself how many people would take the risks this man took and if he is truly an American hero entitrled to brag about the work he did and criticize the famed FBI when it held him back.If you're a fan of mafia books and/or undercover agent books, this is a book you have to read, and this statement is coming from an experienced FBI undercover agent.