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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny  Publisher Comments With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and entrepreneurs alike became intoxicated by forecasts of limitless expansion into newly open markets. No...
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King of the Godfathers: "Big Joey" Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family
by Anthony M. Destefano Synopsis Previously published as "The Last Godfather," this account by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter tells the story of the brutal mob war that made Joseph Big Joey Massino head of the Bonanno family and the most powerful gangster in America. photos....
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Underboss
by Peter Maas Publisher Comments In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime...
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury Publisher Comments The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self...
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The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
by Howie Carr Publisher Comments An account of the infamous Massachusetts criminal team describes their mobster activities and corrupt political practices, tracing Whitey Bulger's ongoing placement on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives lists and Billy Bulger's expulsion from his...
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Confessions of a Yakuza : a Life in Japan's Underworld (91 Edition)
by Junichi Saga Publisher Comments A riveting tale of murder and unexpected compassion by the author of Memories of Silk and Straw, recounting the true life saga of one of the last traditional gang bosses in Japan....
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Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers
by Gus Russo Publisher Comments The widely praised and meticulously researched book that reveals the story of how, for fifty years, superlawyer Sidney Korshak and the nefarious Chicago Outfit pulled the strings of American business, politics, and society. Investigative...
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Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Rob Pickering Iazzi Book News Annotation Pickering-Iazzi (French, Italian, and comparative literature, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukie) presents a collection of fiction and nonfiction accounts, from the 1880s to 1990s, allowing readers to experience a variety of different ways in which Italian...
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The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
by T. J. English Publisher Comments Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell’s Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City’s West...
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Accardo: The Genuine Godfather
by William F. Foemer Publisher Comments "A STORY THAT NO OTHER AUTHOR COULD HAVE PUT <BR>TOGETHER . . . Roemer [is] America's most decorated FBI agent."<BR>--Chicago Tribune<BR>For forty years Tony Accardo was America's most dangerous criminal. He cut his teeth on the Chicago...
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The Good Rat: A True Story
by Jimmy Breslin Publisher Comments Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime —...
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The Last Gangster: From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob
by George Anastasia Publisher Comments As a cop Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story -- the story of the last days of the Philadelphia mob, and of the clash of...
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Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob
by Bob Delaney Publisher Comments Featured on NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball’s most respected referees. In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New...
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Murder at the Office
by Brent C Doonan Publisher Comments Doonan recounts the horrifying 1999 attack on his Atlanta day-trading firm by fellow employee Mark Barton, who had already murdered his family by the time he killed nine and wounded a dozen at the firm, and then turned his gun on himself....
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For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mafia Life
by Albert Demeo Review Offers a remarkable perspective on how a brutal mobster could lead a sweet home life as a suburban dad.” —New York Times “One of the most searing volumes ever written about the mob . . . An] unforgettable memoir.” —...
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Once a King, Always a King : the Unmaking of a Latin King (03 Edition)
by Reymundo Sanchez Publisher Comments This riveting sequel to "My Bloody Life" traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto...
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Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan
by Robert Whiting Publisher Comments "A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo <BR>In this unorthodox chronicle of the rise of Japan, Inc., Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa, gives us a fresh...
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Mafia: The Government's Secret File on Organized Crime
by Treasury Department Publisher Comments Some time in the early 1960s, during the golden age of organized crime in America—the era that would inspire The Godfather; Goodfellas, and even The Sopranos—federal investigators pulled every known piece of information on more than 800 Mafia...
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Umbrella Mike: The True Story of the Chicago Gangster Behind the Indy 500
by Brock Yates Publisher Comments He was known as "Umbrella Mike": a hard man among the beautiful people. He moved among the elite of New York society with little notice, his sharply cocked fedora, broad Irish face, and ever present cigar setting him apart from the celebrities and...
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
by T J English Publisher Comments Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike...
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