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"Bad cops, good crook, great story."--USA Today

"[The Good Rat] is Jimmy Breslin at his best."--New York Times

"Breslin is a writer of the heart. It's hard to name another author who demonstrates a better understanding of the passions of urban misrule."--Playboy

"[Breslin's] writing, like the Mafia itself, breezily transitions from humorous to horrifying."--Publishers Weekly

"A great look at the ugly and anything-but-glamorous truth of organized crime. This is Breslin at his Runyonesque best."--Rocky Mountain News

"The ineffable Breslin, the mob's Homer, may not have done much to ensure Kaplan's longevity, but he has surely granted him immortality."--Boston Globe

"Breslin chronicles the cops' sordid tales with a mixture of awe, repugnance and perfect diabolical detail. He remains a master at transforming crookery into opera."--New York Times Book Review

"Completely sure of what he's doing, the author knows how to hook a reader."--New York Observer

"Breslin put his notes to brilliant use in a colorfully nuanced depiction of Burt Kaplan. Kaplan is The Good Rat, and while Breslin doesn't put a gloss on his crimes, he uses him wisely and well to tell us once again about New York's underbelly. And, in such memorable terms."--New York Daily News

"Smart and stinging--Breslin in fine form, which means a winner."--Kirkus Reviews

In a street-savvy journey behind the scenes of the Mafia during its golden era, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the people, places, and events that defined organized crime, capturing the world of such colorful figures as John Gotti, Vito Genovese, Sammy the Bull, and others and tracing the rise and fall of the mob in New York. (True Crime)