{"product_id":"greg-scarpa-the-grim-reaper-marco-bruno-9798196832406","title":"Greg Scarpa, The Grim Reaper: Mob Murders, Betrayal, and the FBI's Most Dangerous Informant","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than two decades, Gregory Scarpa Sr. lived two lives simultaneously. To the Colombo crime family, he was the Grim Reaper - a killer credited with between forty and fifty murders, a man whose name alone carried the specific authority of organized violence. To the FBI, he was something rarer and more dangerous: a Top Echelon informant, a source whose access to the family's most guarded deliberations made him one of the most valuable assets in the Bureau's organized crime program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was both of these things at the same time. For twenty years, a protected killer fed intelligence to the same institution that should have been building a case against him. And when the Colombo family tore itself apart in the civil war of the early 1990s, Scarpa was in the middle of the shooting - while his handler, Special Agent Lindley DeVecchio, allegedly shared the FBI's own investigative intelligence to help him win it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen there is Mississippi. In 1964, the FBI quietly sent Scarpa south to extract - by whatever means necessary - the information that broke open the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. A mob enforcer in the service of civil rights. The moral arithmetic has never resolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreg Scarpa, The Grim Reaper\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of the most corrupted informant relationship in FBI history - a story about murder, institutional failure, and the dangerous line between intelligence and complicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marco Bruno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798196832406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Marco Bruno","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743209959679,"sku":"9798196832406","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/greg-scarpa-the-grim-reaper-marco-bruno-9798196832406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}