Nation: Portrait of an Obsolete Mobster

EVICTED from the Mob's top hierarchy in 1964, Joe Bonanno of New York—one of the bloodiest killers in Cosa Nostra's history—eventually retired to Tucson, Ariz., where, amid his fig and orange trees, he now lives modestly, reflecting on his days of power and plotting his comeback. His life is not entirely normal, however. The FBI tried, unsuccessfully, to recruit his confidant and all-round handyman, David Hill, 21, as an informer. Once a bomb landed in Bonanno's backyard. He thinks that an FBI agent may have prompted two young thugs to throw the bomb and start a fight between Bonanno and another...

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