Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Gosa Nostra mafia was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned don. The family's territories in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia were subjected to a street tax on illegal gambling and flooded with drugs by mob-connected suppliers. The new profits were increased by a brutal mob war launched against the weakening Cleveland family to control lucrative rackets in Youngstown, Ohio. But as their regional power peaked, the seeds of their own destruction were sown. The organisation's former second-in-command betrayed his crime family and became a key FBI informant. A casino takeover, numerous unsolved murders, a mole in the Pittsburgh FBI office and a plot to kill a prosecutor are just some of the gritty stories of the Steel City mob. Author Paul N. Hodos charts the rise and fall of Pittsburgh's Gosa Nostra crime family.