16 Sep 2006

Fentress: 'Interesting and informative'

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to provide you with an early review of Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia provided by author and Mafia historian James Fentress:

“ ... The book centers very much around the life of J. P. Macheca and his ... career in New Orleans. I found it all very interesting and informative. I was also happy to see my own prejudice confirmed: the Hennessy murder emerges out the turbid racial and political situation in the city ... I was impressed by how much information you got a hold of.”

A resident of Italy, Mr. Fentress is the author of Rebels and Mafiosi: Death in a Sicilian Landscape and the soon-to-be-released Eminent Gangsters.