Frank Ragano

I thought that this was a great book that was factual and the things that happend in this book actually happend. I like that kind of thing because it is realistic and it happend. I also liked that it went through the life of Frank Ragano all the way up until the days when he is creating this book. I liked that it was a hardcover book and that they didn't have a paperback type that would get bent up all over the place. I also liked that he didn't assume things and he put things in this book show more that he knew from fact and he didn't make it up from what people know anyway. I also liked knowing some of the times in this nations history where the government and the Mafia have worked together on things and what happend during those times. I liked hearing about the rivalries that some of the people had with each other. I also liked getting to learn about the president at the time and how he was important to these people.

This book tells about the life of a lawyer that went from small time clients to big named people that pay big. During his prime as a lawyer he was one of the highest payed in the United States. It also tells how he had a very strong friendship with Santo Trafficante. The government tries to find any way to get Frank Ragano out of being able to practice law because he waws too good of a lawyer and almost all of the people that he represented did not go to prison. After he legally lost his ability to preform law in the state of Florida and everywhere else in the country his closest friend Santo turned his back on him when he needed him most and left him with all of his own problems. When he got his license back and was allowed to be a lawyer again he vowed to himself that he would not have and clients that are involved with the mob. After years Santo Trafficante is being prosecuted and he wants Frank to represent him. Against his better judgment he accepts and they go on to win the case. Not long after Santo dies in surgery. show less