From the New York Times bestselling writer of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster-“perhaps one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)-comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the initial viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man John Alite, a detailed associate of Junior Gotti who later testified against him.

In Gotti’s Guidelines, George Anastasia, a prize-winning reporter who spent over thirty years covering crime, offers a surprising about Gotti’s Guidelines: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, as well as the Demise of the American Mafia and incredibly rare glimpse into the Gotti family, witnessed up-close from former family insider John Alite, John Gotti Jr.’s longtime friend and protector. Until now, no one offers given up the type of personal details about the Gottis-including the renowned “Gotti Guidelines” of leadership-that Anastasia exposes right here. Drawing on considerable FBI files and other documents, his own knowledge, and exclusive interviews with insiders and experts, including mob-enforcer-turned-government-witness Alite, Anastasia pokes openings in the Gotti star, demystifying this notorious family and its lucrative and often deadly machinations.

Anastasia offers never-before-heard information regarding the murders, medication coping, and extortion that propelled John J. Gotti to the very best from the Gambino criminal offense family members and the treachery and deceit that allowed John A. “Junior” Gotti to check out in his father’s footsteps. Told from road level and through the eyes of a wiseguy who saw it all firsthand, the effect can be a riveting look at a family group whose hubris, assault, passion, and greed fueled a bloody rise and devastating fall that is still reverberating through the American underworld today.

Gotti’s Rules includes 8 pages of black-and-white photos.