Chasing Goodfellas
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$50.70
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2026
Summary
Celebrated mafia prosecutor Edward McDonald provides not only a front-row seat to his exciting takedown of the underworld legends who executed the nation’s largest robbery and exploited big-time college basketball players, but also an inside look into the making of the classic film Goodfellas.
America has its share of feared and famous G-men and mob prosecutors, but at the height of the New York Mafia’s reign over New York City and beyond, arguably none was more successful than…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798895655504 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Edward McDonald, Jake Brown |
| Publisher: | Post Hill Press |
| Imprint: | Post Hill Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 243g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“I love Ed’s ‘Don’t give me the babe in the woods routine, Karen’ in Goodfellas. It’s sublime.” – Dennis Lehane
Edward McDonald
Edward McDonald headed the Justice Department’s largest and most successful Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn throughout the 1980s. He was responsible for the convictions of the leaders of four of the five Mafia families in New York, over sixty LCN capos and soldiers, more than seventy corrupt labor union officials, and countless others associated with the LCN. He also successfully tried New Jersey senator Harrison Williams and successfully prosecuted five US congressmen. A member of the Screen Actors Guild, he played himself in Goodfellas and appeared in three other films. In private law practice in New York since 1990, he has been praised by the Legal 500, which said, “the ‘excellent Edward McDonald’ lives up to his reputation as ‘one of the best criminal defense attorneys in New York.’” He is a graduate of Boston College and Georgetown Law School and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Mary, a short walk from his three sons and five grandchildren.
Jake Brown is an award-winning biographer, has authored more than sixty books in his twenty-five-year career, and is host/creator of About the Authors TV.
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