'Wiretap' exposes the world of organized crime and the Mob's inner workings in a selection of the secret tapings, wiretaps, and video surveillance actually used to indict and convict some of America's most notorious mobsters. These conversations are by turns fascinatiing, blackly humorous, chilling, venal, and shocking. Strategies, threats, vendettas, pranks, warnings, and felicitations are the stuff of secret discussions never before overheard by the general public. Wiretap profiles 25 alleged American Mafia figures from all five families, each in a chapter prefaced by a short introduction and revealing visual evidence.