Internationally renowned detective Colin McLaren examines notorious mobsters who played the deadly game and won...for a while. McLaren shares his many years undercover inside organized crime families to give viewers chilling first-hand details about how mafia families operate and why their ruthlessness was often their downfall. In hour-long episodes see the crews behind the bosses and the motivations and weaknesses of notorious mobsters John 'Teflon Don' Gotti, Henry Hill, Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano and Vincent 'Chin' Gigante. McLaren traces the rise of each mobster showing viewers the exact locations where they clawed their way out of poverty and climbed the treacherous ladder to wealth and power only to pay a steep price for a life of crime. Hear from people who ran in their inner circles, the law enforcement officials who hunted them and other specialist commentators.