The Butcher Av Philip Carlo

<p>Written by the bestselling author of <i>The Ice Man</i>, <i>The Butcher</i> is a gripping and disturbing fly-on-the-wall account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration''s four-year hunt to bring down Tommy ''Karate'' Pitera, a drug-dealing, murderous capo in the Bonanno crime family. <br><br>In 1992, Pitera was sentenced to life in prison for murdering six people and supporting a massive drug-dealing operation. Yet this covered only a fraction of the crimes he committed. Pitera is thought to have murdered more than 60 people, cutting many of his victims into pieces before burying them on Staten Island.<br><br>Exhaustively researched and written with the cooperation of the DEA agents who hunted Pitera down, <i>The Butcher</i> will send shivers down the spine of the most hardened reader.</p>