BOB DELANEY
Thursday, July 3 at 5 p.m.

NBA official Bob Delaney no longer visits Seattle in his official capacity, but speaks today about his earlier career ... as a New Jersey State trooper who infiltrated organized crime families. Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob (Sterling), written with St. Petersburg Times sportswriter Dave Schreiber, tells the story of his years running a fake trucking agency, an enterprise which helped convict members of the Bruno and Genovese families. "Delaney captures perfectly the daily routine and perils of undercover work, and describes the psychological challenges he faced during the three years of Project Alpha ... Becoming a basketball referee after these proceedings was a return to an early passion of the high school all-state forward and captain of his college team—but the fear, he says, still comes back sometimes." - Publishers Weekly.

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