Preorder Valachi issue ebooks

Ebook editions of Informer's November 2024 issue, The Treacherous World of Joseph Valachi, can be preordered now through Amazon (for Kindle-compatible readers) and Google Play Books (for EPUB readers). The ebooks will be downloadable on Oct. 31. (Magazine, e-magazine, hardcover book and paperback book formats also will be available at that time.)

Amazon Kindle (ASIN: B0DJD793GL) preorder:

Google Play Books EPUB (GGKEY: CF4A036805C) preorder:

The November 2024 issue is Informer's largest issue to date. 

Both ebook editions are priced at $15.75. 

Anticipated pricing on other formats (avail. Oct. 31, 2024):
Electronic (PDF, color, 262 pages) magazine - $20; 
Paperback book (6" x 9", b&w, indexed, about 500 pages) - $24.75; 
Hardcover book (6" x 9", b&w, indexed, about 500 pages) - $32.95; 
Magazine (8.25" x 10.75", color, 262 pages) - $62.

New advertisement

This advertisement will appear for the first time in Informer's November 2024 issue.

 

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This advertisement will appear for the first time in Informer's November 2024 issue.

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This advertisement will appear for the first time in Informer's November 2024 issue.

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Valachi issue is coming together

Much of the Valachi-focused 2024 issue of Informer is already in place. There's still about a month to go before the articles deadline of Aug. 30 and two months before the advertising deadline of Oct. 1. The issue will be released on or before Nov. 1. (It looks like this will be a very hefty issue.)

Caution: Video below contains still news images of scenes of gangland violence.

Valachi betrays his oath

Joseph Valachi described his Mafia induction ceremony to a Senate subcommittee. His testimony was broadcast on television in the autumn of 1963. (Video has been edited.)

"This is my doom. This is the promise I'm breaking...
Even if I talked, I should never talk about this.
And I'm doing so."

Joseph Valachi is the focus of the next issue of Informer, scheduled for release in November of 2024.

Sixty years ago: 'The Real Thing'

Sixty years ago...

In May 1964, the FBI distributed to its field offices an English translation of an early version of Nick Gentile's personal Mafia history, Vita di Capomafia. (This version apparently was from a manuscript prepared by Gentile many years before an edited and updated Vita was published in Italy near the end of 1963. See our October 2020 issue for more information.)

Perhaps inspired by that informative Gentile work, the U.S. Department of Justice in June 1964 persuaded its Mafia informant Joseph Valachi to begin writing his own autobiography. Valachi penned a revealing and often bitter memoir of more than a thousand pages, which he called, The Real Thing.

Valachi's handwritten manuscript was typed up by Justice Department staff and became source material for The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas. The manuscript is held by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Information is available at jfklibrary.org. The document's text is available online through the American Mafia History website, mafiahistory.us.

Joseph Valachi will be the focus of the November 2024 issue of Informer: The History of American Crime and Law Enforcement.

Valachi's world to be 2024 focus

Informer's autumn 2024 issue will focus on the personalities, events, locations, murders and betrayals in the treacherous world of Joseph Valachi.

The issue release is scheduled for Nov. 1, 2024. The articles submission deadline is Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. The advertising deadline is Oct. 1, 2024.

If you're interested in contributing your work to this issue or in purchasing an advertisement, let us know as soon as possible.