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Love or Honor: The True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Fell in Love with a Mafia Boss's Daughter Kindle Edition
This “expertly written” true story of an honest New York cop who loses his head and his heart while undercover reads like “a high-caliber TV miniseries” (Publishers Weekly).
On the eve of his second wedding anniversary, Chris Anastos feels secure in his marriage and in his work with the NYPD’s anticrime unit in the South Bronx. A summons to the downtown headquarters of the Intelligence Division spells trouble, however. Links between the Italian mob and a Greek criminal network in Queens have been discovered, and investigators want the Greek-American cop to go undercover.
Reluctantly, Anastos agrees. For five years he plays his role to perfection, moving back and forth between his comfortable home life and a murky, underground world of wiseguys, pimps, bookies, racketeers, thieves, and heroin dealers. But when the happily married cop falls in love with the beautiful, raven-haired daughter of a Long Island capo, he faces his gravest threat yet.
From the acclaimed author of A Death in Canaan and A Death in California, this is the unforgettable true story of a good man torn between passion and principle.
On the eve of his second wedding anniversary, Chris Anastos feels secure in his marriage and in his work with the NYPD’s anticrime unit in the South Bronx. A summons to the downtown headquarters of the Intelligence Division spells trouble, however. Links between the Italian mob and a Greek criminal network in Queens have been discovered, and investigators want the Greek-American cop to go undercover.
Reluctantly, Anastos agrees. For five years he plays his role to perfection, moving back and forth between his comfortable home life and a murky, underground world of wiseguys, pimps, bookies, racketeers, thieves, and heroin dealers. But when the happily married cop falls in love with the beautiful, raven-haired daughter of a Long Island capo, he faces his gravest threat yet.
From the acclaimed author of A Death in Canaan and A Death in California, this is the unforgettable true story of a good man torn between passion and principle.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherOpen Road Media
- Publication dateJanuary 19, 2016
- File size3219 KB
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Chris Anastos, a happily married Greek-American police officer working in the Bronx, was sent on an undercover assignment to infiltrate a Greek gang in Astoria, Queens, that was thought to have Mafia connections. He spent five years on that job, gained acceptance by the Mafiosi and presumably gathered important information, although Bartels ( A Death in Canaan ) is sketchy on the details of just what Anastos accomplished. He had an affair with the daughter of a Mafia leader--identified here only by the first name John--while his marriage was breaking up, presumably because of the absences his undercover work demanded. (When the job ended, so did the affair.) Expertly written, the book tells Anastos' story with the force and flair of a high-caliber TV miniseries.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
New York City policeman Chris Anastos infiltrated organized crime as an undercover agent in 1975. In the process, he began dating the daughter of a Mafioso. When Anastos surfaced in 1980, his marriage was destroyed, and he suffered guilt feelings as a result of his dual identity. For some reason--the passage of time or perhaps Anastos's reluctance--Barthel, who also wrote A Death in Canaan (LJ 12/15/76) and A Death in California ( LJ 9/1/81), presents a curiously circumscribed story which contains only incidental information about the Mafia. While not without appeal, this book could have been much better. A more insightful and compelling book on a similar theme is Joseph Pistone's Donnie Brasco: An FBI Agent Undercover in the Mafia (NAL Bks., 1987).
- Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Gregor A. Preston, Univ. of California Lib., Davis
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
“Fascinating . . . Extraordinary . . . Bizarre . . . Compelling reading.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy
“For devotees of cop tales and mob lore . . . Tantalizing.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A compelling drama about love and the strange, elastic nature of identity. An absorbing read.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Expertly written. [Love or Honor] tells Anastos’ story with the force and flair of a high-caliber TV miniseries.” —Publishers Weekly
“Joan Barthel is an award-winning true crime writer, and in Love or Honor she is working at the top of her form.” —Book Beat
“Barthel breezily draws us into Chris’s life and mind and keeps us hanging on until the end.” —Inside Books
“For devotees of cop tales and mob lore . . . Tantalizing.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A compelling drama about love and the strange, elastic nature of identity. An absorbing read.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Expertly written. [Love or Honor] tells Anastos’ story with the force and flair of a high-caliber TV miniseries.” —Publishers Weekly
“Joan Barthel is an award-winning true crime writer, and in Love or Honor she is working at the top of her form.” —Book Beat
“Barthel breezily draws us into Chris’s life and mind and keeps us hanging on until the end.” —Inside Books
About the Author
Joan Barthel is an award-winning author of nonfiction and a contributor to many national publications, including the Washington Post Magazine and the New York Times Magazine. Her first book, A Death in Canaan (1976), uncovered the miscarriage of justice in the case of a Connecticut teenager accused of murdering his mother. It won the American Bar Association Gavel Award, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and became an Emmy-nominated television movie. A Death in California (1981), the story of a Beverley Hills socialite caught in the thrall of the man who murdered her fiancé, was the basis for a television miniseries. Love or Honor (1989), the extraordinary account of a married undercover cop who infiltrated the Greek mafia only to fall in love with the Capo’s daughter, was called “fascinating” and “compelling” by Nicholas Pileggi. Barthel cowrote Rosemary Clooney’s autobiography, Girl Singer (1999), and is the author of American Saint (2014), a biography of Elizabeth Seton with a foreword by Maya Angelou.
Product details
- ASIN : B018V77IQ2
- Publisher : Open Road Media; 1st edition (January 19, 2016)
- Publication date : January 19, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 3219 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 282 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,082,047 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #195 in Forensic Science (Kindle Store)
- #456 in Biographies of Law Enforcement
- #680 in Forensic Science Law
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Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2019
Excellent read. Sad but true. I’m a New Yorker. Really enlightening and truthful. Spot on story. Well written and researched.
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2023
Excellent book highly recommend reading it. Many of friends have purchased the book and have enjoyed reading.
It’s a true story how this cop lived a double life.
It’s a true story how this cop lived a double life.
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2016
Good
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2019
Excellent book, NYPD Detective goes deep undercover and almost losses everything for it. They don’t make stories like this anymore... highly recommended.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2017
It was disappointing.