I just finished reading the novel The Mob Father. This novel was written by a very talented author George Anastasia. George Anastasia really went into detail about the Philadelphia Crime Family. The book talked about very specific things that happened in the fifties with the Philadelphia Mob down in South Philly. Anastasia talks about the period when Angelo Bruno was the Philadelphia crime boss, until the period that Phil Testa, and Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo. George Anastasia talks about the way that the Italian people lived in the 19050's down in South Philly, and how an associate of organized crime started to clime the ladder from associate to being a capo in the mob in the 1980's. This novel has some good insight on how organized crime operated in Philadelphia. Although it only talks about a man's life that was an associate of organized crime, Tommy Del climbed the ladder of ranks of the Philly Mob, and also helped the police to bring down the Philadelphia Crime Family.
             Tommy Del was working for United Parcel Services in the 1960's as a truck driver. He met his wife Maryann in a jewelry shop, because he crossed that street every time when he made deliveries. After, Tommy Del asked Maryann out, and they went out for about a month, then Tommy Del asked Maryann if she would marry him. After four months of being engaged to Tommy Del Maryann saw a lot of things that she did not know about her husband to be. Maryann found some betting slips that Tommy kept at his father's house. She asked him to who they belonged to, but he lied to Maryann and told her that he was holding them for a friend. On the day they got married, they were counting the money that they gathered from the wedding. Tommy Delgiorno took the money and gave it to a loan shark because he had lost the money on pool games. Tommy Del ran a small numbers game while he worked for U.P.S. His business started to grow and he needed a partne...