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Patrick Picciarelli

Biography

Patrick Picciarelli

Patrick W. Picciarelli, a Vietnam vet, spent twenty years in the NYPD and is a licensed private investigator and adjunct writing professor at Seton Hill University. The author of Jimmy the Wags, My Life in the NYPD, he regularly contributes to Hardboiled magazine, among others. He lives in Monessen, PA.

Patrick Picciarelli

Books by Patrick Picciarelli

Undercover Cop: How I Brought Down The Real-Life Sopranos
by Mike Russell and Patrick Picciarelli - True Crime

Undercover cop Mike Russell had a stroke of good luck when he saved a man from an attack by two street thugs. The man he saved turned out to be Andy Gerardo, one of the ranking captains of the Genovese crime family. Using his cover story --- an ex-cop fired for excessive force --- and street skills, Russell assimilated into the Genovese crime family in New Jersey and ultimately orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns of all time, leading to more than fifty arrests of mobsters, corrupt prison officials, and even a state senator.