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FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone shares his harrowing experience infiltrating organized crime for six years under the alias Donnie Brasco.

For six years, FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone lived a lie that nearly swallowed him whole. Armed with a fake name—Donnie Brasco—and nerves of steel, Pistone infiltrated the most dangerous organized crime families in America, earning the trust of mob bosses and hitmen while his own identity slowly disappeared.

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