Download or read book Lion in the Basement Growing Up in the Gallo Crime Family written by Frank Dimatteo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank shares his unique perspective, his first-hand accounts and deathbed confessionals which will blow the lid off secrets that have been confidential for so many years. In honest and sometimes graphic detail, Frank takes his readers into a world they only thought they knew. Born in South Brooklyn in 1956 into a family of hitmen, Frank's father Ricky and uncle Bobby Darrow were shooters for the Gallo crime family. They were also bodyguards to Larry Gallo and Joe Gallo.