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Covert
My Years Infiltrating the Mob
Delaney, Bob
Scheiber, Dave
Hardcover
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketballs most respected referees.
In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New Jersey State Trooper when his superiors approached him with a tantalizing yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational business used by law enforcement as fly paper for snagging crooks.
At the height of The Godfather era, Delaney wore a wire and lived among wiseguys who modeled themselves on their on-screen counterparts, quoting lines from The Movie and boasting of how often theyd seen it. Delaney even crossed paths with Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco (though neither knew the other was undercover), knowing all the while that a single slip could get him killed.
Ultimately gathering enough evidence to convict 30 members of the Bruno and Genovese crime families, Project Alpha was a success, but Delaney struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and traces of Stockholm syndrome after getting too close to those he investigated. Therapy helped him come to terms with all hed endured during his three tense years undercover, and, once a college basketball star, Delaney began officiating high school and intramural games as a way to rebuild his lifeeventually working his way up to the NBA, where he has been a referee for more than two decades.
This is his amazing true story, with a foreword by NBA great and current TV commentator Bill Walton.

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1402754434
ISBN(13-digit): 9781402754432
Dewey Decimal: 364.1092
Library of Congress: 2007042585
Book Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 276

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