April 2, 1992: John Gotti convicted of murder and racketeering.

My plan was to post about Son of the Mob, because you know, IT'S AWESOME.

But apparently I read it before I started Bookshelves of Doom. So I never actually wrote about it. Which is a problem I'll have to rectify in the near future.

In the meantime, I shall point you to the SEQUEL to Son of the Mob, which is slightly inferior to the original, but still lots and lots of fun:

Vince, Alex and Kendra are all off to college. Vince and Kendra are in the L.A. area, and Alex is in Las Vegas. Vince (stupidly) assumes that being on the other coast will mean that Dad's business won't affect his life anymore. Of course, it doesn't take him long (4 pages) to realize otherwise...

There are loads of other mob-themed YA books, of course: Al Capone Does My Shirts, Dark Eyes, Strings Attached, Boy21, Black Duck, the Mob Princess series...