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Washington Times
The many fans of “The Sopranos” TV series might be interested in reading about a cop who infiltrated the real deal. Giovanni Rocco, a New Jersey police officer, detailed as an FBI undercover operative, infiltrated the notorious DeCavalcante Cosa Nostra crime family in...
The Times London
The undercover FBI agent who brought down the “real life Sopranos” thought his ordeal was over when a mafia boss and nine mobsters were arrested. In fact, it had only just begun. The fear of reprisal made nervous wrecks of Giovanni Rocco and his wife and children,...
New York Post
After the feds arrested a capo and nine other goodfellas from New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family in 2015, the undercover FBI agent who’d infiltrated their outfit looked forward to his next assignment. Instead, Giovanni Rocco went into hiding. Some of...
The Chronicle Herald
Little shocked Douglas Schofield when he sat down to record and then write the true story of a former FBI undercover agent who infiltrated New Jersey’s DeCavalcante crime family – said to be the inspiration for The Sopranos. Schofield had already spent decades as a...
Philadelphia Weekly
“Giovanni’s Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos,” written by Giovanni Rocco with Douglas Schofield, covers the true story of a former FBI undercover operative and his successful infiltration of the DeCavalcante Cosa Nostra crime family. Rocco was a New Jersey...
Library Journal
In this compulsively readable mix of memoir and true crime, former undercover FBI agent Rocco (a pseudonym the author is using to safeguard his identity) describes infiltrating a branch of an Italian American mafia syndicate in New Jersey and New York in the...
Booklist
Giovanni Rocco walked the tightrope of an undercover operative deftly for years, infiltrating the DeCalvacante crime family in New Jersey. Rocco grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey, where the presence of organized crime loomed. Despite some minor rabble-rousing in his...
Publisher’s Weekly
Rocco, the alias for a New Jersey cop who infiltrated the Mafia in the 2010s, vividly conveys the challenges and perils of undercover work in this gripping if inadequately sourced memoir. Rocco, the son of a policeman, grew up in Bayonne, N.J., playing with kids whose...