Organized Crime

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

After Capone is the first book-length work to present the complete, never-before-told story of Frank "the Enforcer"Nitti-born Francesco Raffele Nitto-the driving force behind the Chicago mob's operations in the years that followed Al Capone's...

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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...

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...

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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...

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The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. Though its...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988213869Author Elena NikitinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Illiad PressPublisher Illiad Press

'Once upon a time, when New York City lived and breathed, there was a man marked for death, like us all ...'Arnold Rothstein was one of the most mysterious figures in Manhattan's history: a godfather of organized crime - rumoured to have fixed baseball's...

In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610882392Author James LarossaFormat HardbackImprint Bancroft PressPublisher Bancroft PressWeight(grams) 590g

The inside story-from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The...

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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...

Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete Public Enemy Almanac"" provides a reliable source of information about the violent and lawless era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310635Author Phil StanfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

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