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GoodFellas Nicholas Pileggi 9780747578635
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07The enthralling story of Henry Hill's life as a gangster and notorious participation in the Witness Protection Programme, made into the hugely acclaimed Martin Scorsese film ... -
Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129903Author Nicholas PileggiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi 9781451635676
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451635676Author Nicholas PileggiFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Casino: The Rise and Fall of the Mob in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66The Stardust... The Fremont... The Marina. They ran them all.And they lost.Big time.No one knew more about casinos than Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal, the gambling mastermind who, along with his best... -
South End Syndicate: How I Took Over the Genovese Springfield Anthony Arillotta 9781949590760
Booksplease Price: $39.64"The last days of the Roman Empire, if it were populated by snitches, gamblers, mobsters, lowlifes, and homicidal maniacs. In other words, this book is entertaining as hell. In chronicling one small,... -
South End Syndicate: How I Took Over the Genovese Springfield Anthony Arillotta 9781949590753
Booksplease Price: $56.76"The last days of the Roman Empire, if it were populated by snitches, gamblers, mobsters, lowlifes, and homicidal maniacs. In other words, this book is entertaining as hell. In chronicling one small,... -
She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron by Richard Cohen
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $23.54"A very personal remembrance of Nora Ephron's life and loves, and her ups and downs" (USA TODAY) by her long-time and dear friend Richard Cohen in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant... -
Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run by Henry Hill
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493071906Author Henry HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman &... -
Martin Scorsese Ian Nathan 9781836006435
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $40.17Discover the genius of Martin Scorsese - one of cinema's greatest storytellers.For over 50 years, Martin Scorsese has been one of cinema's most celebrated directors. From a Catholic kid in Manhattan... -
Wise Guys by Clint Willis 9781560254980
Booksplease Price: $34.75Wise Guys takes readers into the heart of Sopranos territory, with a collection featuring the work of best-selling writers from E. L. Doctorow (with an account of mobster Dutch Schultz that includes... -
The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath by Philip Carlo
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Written by the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Butcher is a gripping and disturbing fly-on-the-wall account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's four-year hunt to bring down Tommy... -
Murder Machine by Gene Mustain
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.50Meet the DeMeo gang - the most deadly killers the Mafia has ever known. They were a small-time Brooklyn corner crew who, headed by the notorious Roy DeMeo, became the hitmen of choice for the Gambino... -
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra by Scott Burnstein
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27MONEY, MURDER, AND MACHIAVELLIAN MAYHEM ... CONTAINS A NEW EPILOGUE Mafia Prince is the first person account of one of the most brutal eras in Mafia history, Little Nicky" Scarfo's reign as boss of... -
License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age by 9780874176247
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07These seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Commission illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of Las Vegas' megaresorts.About... -
America's Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York by Sam Roberts
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.44In a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the New York mayoralty in 1965 by promising to rid the city of apathy and corruption and make New York... -
Fighting for Justice: The Improbable Journey to Exposing Cover-Ups about the JFK Assassination and the Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen by Mark Shaw
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $26.83"Investigative reporting at its best. Mark Shaw's original work into the questionable deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen is now focused on the many unanswered questions left by the Warren... -
Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia Louis Ferrante 9781399618489
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $30.21The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age. From small-town Sicily to glittering Las Vegas, the mob had carefully expanded and consolidated their... -
Rebel Girl and the Godfather: New York City’s Italians and the Fight for Civil Rights by Jeffrey Louis Decker 9798855803433
RRP: $170.63Booksplease Price: $161.93The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the... -
Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Louis Ferrante 9781474604291
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $37.15DISCOVER THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA - FROM A MAN WHO'S SEEN IT ALL FROM THE INSIDEIn BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former mafia member Louis Ferrante pulls back the curtain on the... -
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America by T. J. English 9780063265547
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32“T.J. English hits the bullseye again. This is true crime writing at its most gripping and immediate — a riveting epic about crooked cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and politicians who corrupted... -
Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream by Michael Shnayerson
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.90The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "[A] brisk-reading chronicle of Siegel's life and crimes."-Tom Nolan, Wall... -
Hollywood Godfather: The most authentic mafia book you'll ever read by Gianni Russo
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.20Gianni Russo was a handsome twenty-five-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of... -
Mob Cop: My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department by Fred Pascente 9781613731345
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $37.75Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, a central character in Nicholas Pileggi's Casino and one of Chicago's most notori ous mob figures,... -
Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia Louis Ferrante 9781474604314
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The American mafia has long held powerful sway over our collective cultural imagination. But how many of us truly understand how a clandestine Sicilian criminal organisation came to exert its... -
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America T. J. English 9780063265530
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.03From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour,... -
The Murder of Sonny Liston: A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing & Las Vegas by Shaun Assael
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Sonny Liston was a legend, described by Mike Tyson as "the baddest man boxing ever produced". From veteran sports reporter Shaun Assael, The Murder of Sonny Liston is a gripping, intense examination... -
Unbeaten: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano by Mike Stanton 9781509822508
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I've read in years.' - Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life.Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey,... -
The Encyclopedia of New York by The Editors of New York Magazine 9781501166952
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $51.01The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all. Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a... -
Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas Jeffrey Sussman 9798216368618
Booksplease Price: $36.99Sin City Gangsters is a whirlwind account of how the mob created Las Vegas, building and controlling gambling casinos and buying the favors of influential politicians. The book features such mobsters... -
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather Mark Seal 9781982158606
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.85This "wickedly pacey page-turner" (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.The story of how The Godfather...