Running from the Witness Protection Program by Mark Spector

An eye-opening look into secrets that lay hidden for decades, Running from the Witness Protection Program by Mark Spector is a fascinating dive into a life that feels stranger than fiction. Rarely are there first-person accounts from someone who was truly “in the know” with legendary mobsters, and Spector knows how to hook a reader, revealing some of the inner secrets of mob life, along with personal anecdotes from his own youthful endeavors in organized crime. While this short work could absolutely be expanded into a longer memoir, Spector has a succinct and compelling voice that makes this a captivating read that you can fly through in a single sitting.