Stabbings, bloodshed, dismemberment. Life in the belly of the beast known as the Mafia is tough, violent and unrelenting.

For FBI agent Joe Pistone, it was a world he was destined to confront and conquer. Pistone accomplished what no one in the history of the bureau had ever done - he successfully infiltrated the secretive and deadly world of the mob. For six years, he lived among two of New York's most infamous crime families, The Bonnanos and the Colombos, bravely posing as a jewel thief named "Donnie Brasco".