Operation Family Secrets is the chilling true story of how the son of one of the most violent mobsters in Chicago made the unprecedented decision to work with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to incriminate his own father and to help bring down the last great American crime syndicate-the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit.Frank Calabrese, Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering and extortion.But when Frank Jr., his father and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, “Junior” and “Senior” are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan. It’s there that Frank Jr. makes the life-changing decision to go straight. His cooperation with the FBI for virtually no monetary gain or special privileges helped create the government’s “Operation Family Secrets” campaign against the Chicago outfit, which reopened eighteen unsolved murders, implicated twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses and became one of the largest organized crime cases in U.S. history.

• 336 pages
• Publisher: Crown
• March 6, 2012