Organized Crime

An astonishing and revelatory memoir by two women who escaped the glamorous yet deadly international drug trade.Mia Flores and Olivia Flores live under assumed names. To their neighbours, they are typical single mothers, their days filled with school...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the South Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in America. As the use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice, dealers and gangs staked claims to territory and consumers through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615983066Author Rose KeefeFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Absolute CrimePublisher Absolute CrimeWeight(grams) 104g

Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American history and one of the founders of the modern American Mafia in New York City. For all-out savagery and...

"The intent behind this book is to record classic Las Vegas history that would be lost forever if not memorialized." The Dunes operation was a spectrum of information that is intricate and mysterious at times, protected by a shroud of secrecy and...

A personal account of attempting to escape slavery by a mind control cult A Brain of My Own is about slavery, about brains stolen in childhood and before; brains that have been intruded upon, stopped, shrunk, paralyzed. We know about the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250817785Author Michael CannellFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the South Bronx had one of the highest per capita murder rates in America. As the use of crack cocaine surged, replacing heroin as the high of choice, dealers and gangs staked claims to territory and consumers through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061782381Author T J EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

In this new edition of a cult classic, Henrik KrUEger and Jerry Meldon have added new material and provided updates of the investigations Danish investigative author Henrik KrUEger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063099531Author Max MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569808139Author Neil G. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books Inc

An astonishing read -- full of corruption, greed, strong drink and stronger language -- that reveals the rotten heart of the global economy - Oliver Bullough, author of MoneylandCrackles along ... they deserve credit for exposing the dark underbelly of...

'For almost all my life, I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid...'Peter Woolf's life of drinking, drug-taking and thieving had begun before most people leave school. Spending most of his adult life in prison made no difference to him: life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970461469Author Michael EsslingerFormat HardbackPage Count 610Imprint Ocean View PublishingPublisher Ocean View PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129028Author Nick BiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780307356611Author Alex CaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Random House...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781416580607Author Jonathan EigFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

What is the Russian Mafia? This unique book thoroughly researches this question and challenges widely-held views. The author charts the emergence of the Russian Mafia in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of protection and...

It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-strong street army that is eager to advance its agenda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781443427647Author Stewart BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 336g

A sensational second book in The Biggest Gang trilogy from detective turned author Stephen Hayes. Fifty Shades Of Black 'N' Blue will not disappoint - the beatings continue, the culture of police corruption is further outlined with yet more real-life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806539140Author Anthony M. DeStefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095124Author Misha GlennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann.The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692583241Author Anthony Edward ColomboFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Unity PressPublisher Unity PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

When the poker was almost too hot to handle, he stomped to where I stood. Without warning, Ronnie stabbed my body with the poker. The heat burnt through my jacket and shirt. I felt a sharp pain across my stomach. I was panic-stricken. There was no...

When the poker was almost too hot to handle, he stomped to where I stood. Without warning, Ronnie stabbed my body with the poker. The heat burnt through my jacket and shirt. I felt a sharp pain across my stomach. I was panic-stricken. There was no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627877145Author Gregory A. FournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint WheatmarkPublisher Wheatmark

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310772Author Brian TuohyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984233311Author Ron ChepesiukFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Strategic Media BooksPublisher Strategic Media BooksWeight(grams) 531g

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to...

For two decades, the Burmese warlord Khun Sa controlled nearly 70 percent of the world's heroin supply, yet there has been little written about the legend the U.S. State Department branded the "most evil man in the world"-until now. Through exhaustive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593419496Author Rory CarrollFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 607gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas is a fast-paced account of how the mob created and controlled Las Vegas. It contains accounts of how the most powerful mobsters in the country built, bought, and controlled not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611690057Author William OuseleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Kansas City Star BooksPublisher Kansas City Star BooksWeight(grams)...

Although organised criminal groups have been an ever-present menace to our cities, in the last decade gangs have snowballed into one of the most terrifying problems facing Britain today. Seducing disillusioned youngsters into their ranks, vicious crews...

The Peppermint Lounge was intended to be nothing more than a front for gambling and other rackets but the club became a sensation after Dick "Cami" Camillucci began to feature a new kind of music, rock and roll. The mobsters running the place found...

Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been--until now--a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416673Author Felix SeguinFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada