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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
243 p.
Language
English
Description
The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as “the real Sopranos”
Giovanni’s Ring is the story of “Giovanni Rocco,” a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as “Giovanni Gatto,” who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin Edition.
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cosa Nostra cogently traces this most powerful and successful of criminal organizations from its surprising beginnings as a protection racket for the lemon and orange groves of Sicily to its more recent history.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 328 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An ATF agent describes his undercover assignment to infiltrate the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, detailing the challenges of working his way up the biker gang's hierarchy and maintaining their hard-won trust.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xv, 384 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former mafia associate and heist expert who spent eight years in prison for not incriminating his fellow Gambino family members presents the history of the mafia's first 100 years, from Sicily in the 1860s to America in the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 362 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the "war on drugs," which has cost more than 60,000 lives in six years. The author explains in detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages.
Language
English
Description
"Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a city "in its brawny postwar prime," is where "Little Joe" Regino and Russ Shorto build a local gambling empire on the earnings of factory workers for whom placing a bet-on a horse or pool game, pinball or "tip seal"-is their best shot at the American dream. Decades later, Russell Shorto grew up knowing that his grandfather...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and most feared Mafioso in American history. He became the boss of the Gambino Crime Family in spectacular fashion—with the brazen and very public murder of Paul Castellano in front of Sparks Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan in 1985. Not one to stay below law enforcement’s radar, Gotti instead became the first celebrity crime boss. His penchant for eye-catching apparel earned him the nickname “The...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,...
Author
Publisher
Distributed in Canada by H.B. Fenn and Company, Ltd
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the efforts of NYPD detective Vincent Armanti to infiltrate the mafia family responsible for a fireman's death, during which he discovered that those he was investigating had access to classified police information.
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force-the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed "The Tsunami", quickly realizes that even within...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the early twentieth century, the Sicilian-American Black Hand crime ring operated with impunity in America's heartland. In the defining case of his career, Post Office Inspector Frank Oldfield infiltrated the Black Hand and nabbed sixteen mafiosos in the country's first international organized crime conviction"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paul LeRoux, a former cybersecurity entrepreneur, transformed transnational organized crime. He was Netflix to Blockbuster, Spotify to Tower Records. His criminal empire stretched from Southeast Asia to Brazil and generated hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of arms, drugs, chemicals, bombs, missile technology, and assassinations. Initially, LeRoux was a ghost, but he gained the attention of a band of DEA agents who used undercover informants...
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them...
18) Five families
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The rise, decline, and resurgence of America's most powerful Mafia empires.