Teresa Carpenter 
Mob Girl 
A Woman’s Life in the Underworld

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Missing Beauty comes a fascinating inside look at the mafia.Growing up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City, Arlyne Brickman associated with mobsters. Drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle, she was soon dating "wiseguys" and running errands for them; but after years as a mob girlfriend, Arlyne began to get in on the action herselfeventually becoming a police informant and major witness in the government’s case against the Colombo crime family.