Pesos: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family by Pietro La Greca Jr. with Rebecca Paley

"Mexico's real-life Don Corleone, Pietro La Greca, just celebrated his seventieth birthday. So notorious and powerful is La Greca that Mexican newspapers openly talk about his involvement in fraud, smuggling, and money-laundering activities that he conducts with impunity."     

                -from an article the author found in 1994 regarding his father

This book was a free one from Amazon First Reads. Interesting memoir from the son of a guy described above. I rated it a 3. It was very different from anything I have read lately! I was thankful it was pretty short.

The author's father, el jefe, is sometimes called "King of the Peso" along with the reference in the quote. The apple obviously fell far from the tree as Pietro Jr. relates growing up in the shadow of a man he could not respect.  I feel like the subtitle of this book pretty much gives a down and dirty summary, so I don't need to say much more.