WISED UP -- AGAIN. Mobster turned cooperating witness returns! Charlie Wilhelm is our special guest

Wised Up: A Reformed Mobster's Confessional Memoir - Second Edition Updated With a New Chapter and More Photos: Charlie Wilhelm, Joan Jacobson on Amazon.com..

Wised Up is a story of atonement for Charlie Wilhelm, a career criminal who ended his life of crime the year he turned 40. Going to the FBI with no lawyer - and no criminal charges against him -  he went undercover, wearing a wire to catch his life-long friends for drug dealing, bribery, loan sharking and murder.

This intimate story, told in Charlie's voice, is the first to expose organized crime in Baltimore. It reveals the complex relationship between an informant and his FBI handlers, and explores the tormented mind of a man with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who faces the consequences of doing the right thing, while turning against his crime family.

Wised Up also introduces the one person most responsible for helping Charlie change his life - FBI agent Bruce Hall, a forensic mineralogist who grew up with Charlie in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore's suburbs.

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