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The Final Kiss Off from Hollywood’s Secret Keeper

Anthony Pellicano, the notorious former “private investigator to the stars,” has quietly returned to Hollywood and resumed pitching his services—only for a group of his long-ago victims to resurface, seeking nearly $4 million of justice.

Anthony Pellicano
Private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Photo: Michael Montfort/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
July 24, 2022

This past week, I slogged through a book that features a rather peculiar perspective. This novel tells a tale of two best friends from a rough Italian neighborhood in Chicago—one who grows up to be a private investigator for the mafia, the other who becomes an F.B.I. agent. The premise is promising, but what’s most remarkable is the author’s clear affection for the fictional gangsters, and even for mob justice. What kept me reading to the end was the identity of the author, Anthony Pellicano, and the publisher’s word that this was “his first work of not-so-fictional fiction.”