Chicago Swan Song: A Mob Wife's Story

by Camillus Robinson, Lisa Swan

Overview

Lisa Swan became the wife of Frank Calabrese, Jr., a collector for his father, the notorious and brutal Frank "Frankie the Breeze" Calabrese, a high-ranking member of the infamous Chinatown Crew.

It's all here. The money, the violence, the drugs the greed and the murders that surrounded her as well as her deep passion to break free from a lifestyle that could change with the flash of a single bullet.

Swan's firsthand, intimate look inside the insular and secretive Chicago Outfit details her life inside the Calabrese Clan, one of the First Families of the Chicago Mob. She describes, with clarity and occasional humor her discovery of the dark side of the Mafia and her battle to save herself, her children and eventually her husband from gritty realities of the Mob.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186041351
Publisher:	Coastal West Publishing
Publication date:	06/25/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Lisa Swan was born in Chicago and spent most of
her childhood growing up in the Galewood neighborhood,
a small Italian enclave where she made lifelong friends.
After high school, she started as a runner at the fast
paced Chicago Mercantile Exchange before working her
way up the ladder. Soon after, Lisa met and married Frank
Calabrese, Jr, son of notorious Chicago mob hitman
Frank Calabrese, and that’s where things got tricky. Today,
Lisa works as an operations manager for a national hotel
chain. She first began telling her story at a book signing
for Frank Jr. Later, she gave the incredible YouTube interview that would
ultimately lead to this book. Lisa is the mother of daughter Kelly and son
Anthony. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her pup Rocky.

Camillus Robinson was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in English. He developed an interest in organized crime after hearing the exploits of his great grandfather, an Italian immigrant to Boston who ultimately had to flee to New York to escape the mafia. Camillus attempts to apply traditional historical research methods to his organized crime work and aims to be as thorough and accurate as possible. For the last few years, he has worked with Gary Jenkins on the Gangland Wire Podcast, co-wrote the script for Jenkins’ documentary Brothers Against Brothers: The Civella Spero War, and later went on to work as a cowriter and cast member of Inside the Chicago Outfit, a panel show about the Chicago mob. He currently lives in Munster, Indiana with his beautiful wife, high school teacher Ginny Eib, a German Shepherd named Thor, and two cats, Lobster Roll and Yoncé.

Editorial Reviews

Robinson and Swan put you at the dining room
table where fear is the main course, behind
the wheel, when a notorious killer is stalking
you, and on the chest of a paranoid addict as
his cocaine-fueled heart is about to burst out
of his chest. The stakes don't get any higher
for a young mother caught in the vortex of the
infamous Chicago Outfit Calabrese clan.

Book Cover - JAMES ENZO FORNI

If you think Frankie Calabrese Jr. and his uncle Nick Calabrese told
'Family Secrets' in the trial that brought down the Chicago Outfit, check
out Lisa Swan's secrets of life inside the Calabrese family in Chicago
Swan Song.

Book cover - Gary Jenkins

I thought I'd read every good book about the mob and the Chicago Outfit until I picked up Lisa Swan's book about her Chicago Swan Song! This book not only takes you inside the inner workings of mob life, it shows in detail the effects that such a life can have on a family. A normally happy family, until the monster that was Frank Sr. started mentally affecting the dynamics of how a happy family could coexist. Even if the mob isn't your cup of tea, this book is extremely hard to put down!

Amazon - Jay Murphy

Its a gripping insight into the life of a strong woman caught in a Hegelian dietetic in a world that contained the much to common struggle between a woman's love of her strong faith, love of family the hidden life of the man she loves. I found this to hit home on the often cloistered of many women's lives and the secrets of the men they love that these women either purposely or intentionally ignore so the innocents of the family can be maintained.

Amazon - Steven G