The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia

Detective Stephen Caracappa achieved the distinguished rank of first

grade detectve while under the hire of the Luchese crime family.

Detective Louis Eppolito worked the heart of Brooklyn's mobland; he

himself was the son of a Gambino crime family soldier.

Detective William Oldham, the lead investigator on major organized-crime

cases, quietly and relentlessly tracked Caracappa and Eppolito for more than

seven years.

The Brotherhoods is the riveting account of the notorious rogue cops

charged with murdering for the mob, and the brilliant detective who stalked

them. With unparalleled access to both the NYPD and organized crime, a gallery

of unforgettable characters, and sweeping from Manhattan to Las Vegas to

Hollywood, this is the ultimate wiseguy story, packed with psychological

intrigue, criminal audacity, and paranoid, blood-soaked fury.

Now with updates on the trial's shocking outcome and the ongoing legal battle.

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All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Read Serpico, 2008-10-05
I can't stand a book where I can't get the author's voice out my head enough to concentrate on the story. He loves the 'sound of his own voice' so much the book could be half the size and twice as interesting.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

THE TRUE CRIME BOOK OF THE CENTURY, 2007-12-15
This is a tight,concise true crime saga with a cast of hundreds of good and bad guys. YET there is only one brave,drivin "warts & all" man who stands out,Detective William Oldham ,who pursued over 7 years basically on his own, the most corrupt detectives NYC has ever witnessed known forever as the 2 Mafia Cops ; Caracappa & Eppolito.Those 2 cops were working directly for the Mafia Luchese family . Without giving anything away ,other than what you may have read in the newspapers ,this is one hell of a compelling page turner . If you thought you knew the politics of the various divisions of crime fighting or the ways of the mafia fully fleshed out. You, my fellow true crime buffs' are in for some major suprises throughout.


1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Four Stars., 2007-10-14
It's more like a bad road through an interesting place. The subject is fascinating, but it's not a page flipper. And that's because of the book's organization. It shoulda been divided into Parts with distinct themes and characters. If it was easier to read I'd give it 5 stars.


2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Under construction?, 2007-10-02
I must agree with reviewer/reader maskirovka in that this book takes liberties not with facts, but with narrative tense and editing. This is not really the story about the infamous mafia cops ( we have to read to almost page 120 to begin the biography of one of the killer detectives ) as much as it is the story of the cop who chased them. Oldham's publishers probably thought we had read enough about supercops fighting the mob and police corruption. The idea of another Serpico or Donnie Brasco was probably a hard sell. Regardless, what we really get is a biography on Oldham and his career in law enforcment. The case of the mob cops was simply the one that he obsessed with the most and that was most infamous. Oldham's writer/partner Lawson is no Truman Capote either. His device of using quotations for some of Oldham's first person narratives are questionable, given the fact that THE WHOLE BOOK is really a first person narrative from Oldham's persepctive. We can imagine Oldham in Hollywood shopping this story to the major film studios. Here's a question for him. "If any of the living criminal characters in your book with a vowel at the end of their name agreed to attend a luncheon with you and a movie producer, just to add an air of credibilty, would you bring them along?" Hmmm.


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

The Brotherhoods, 2007-09-26
A riveting account of two rogue cops who freelanced themselves to the Luchese crime family for years and got away with it until a cadre of dedicated investigators compiled the evidence to put them away. The book gives a detailed description of day to day life in the NYPD and the mob. Martin Scorcese should be looking for a cast for a blockbuster movie.

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