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Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
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Include books by the same authorThe Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
Roberto Escobar Gaviria
El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man. Edited by Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden
Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden
No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
Jay Dobyns, Nils Johnson-Shelton · 328 pages
The first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the Hells Angels, Dobyns finally tells the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
For the Sins of My Father: A Mafia Killer, His Son, and the Legacy of a Mob Life
Albert Demeo, Mary Jane Ross · 288 pages
Pablo Escobar: My Father
Juan Pablo Escobar · 368 pages
"THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER! When Pablo Escobar died in 1993, his seventeen-year-old son initially vowed revenge. But Juan Pablo quickly recognized that reaction entailed following in his father's footsteps--something neither he nor his father ever wanted. Their lives in immense danger, Juan Pablo, his mother, and his sister assumed new identities and fled to Argentina, where he would spend the
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King
Reymundo Sanchez · 299 pages
Autobiographical account of the early life of a member of the Latin Kings of Chicago.
Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster
John "Red" Shea · 312 pages
The man who has remained silent for more than a decade finally speaks, revealing the gritty true story of his life inside the infamous South Boston Irish mob led by the elusive, Machiavellian kingpin Whitey Bulger, who to this day remains on the lam as one of the world's Ten Most Wanted criminals, second only to Osama bin Laden ...
Donnie Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages
The Untouchables
Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley · 256 pages
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
Ioan Grillo · 321 pages
"The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance, an
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Jake Adelstein · 335 pages
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve years of eighty-
Gangsters and Goodfellas: Wiseguys . . . and Life on the Run
Henry Hill, Gus Russo · 300 pages
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Mark Bowden · 384 pages
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw is a book by Mark Bowden that details the efforts by the governments of the United States and Colombia, their respective military and intelligence forces, and Los Pepes to stop illegal activities committed by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his subordinates. It relates how Escobar was killed and his cartel dismantled. Bowden originally
The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
T.J. English · 416 pages
Published in the UK for the first time in 2008.
ZeroZeroZero
Roberto Saviano · 455 pages
A truly harrowing and groundbreaking synthesis of intimate literary narrative and geopolitical analysis of one of the most powerful dark forces in our economy. Saviano tracks the shift in the cocaine trade's axis of power, from Colombia to Mexico, and relates how the Latin American cartels and gangs have forged alliances, first with the Italian crime syndicates, then with the Russians, Africans, a
The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
John George Pearson · 336 pages
John Pearson details the lives of Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the infamous brothers who, for decades, ruled the criminal underground in London's East End. This biography of the identical twins is, at times, humorous and revealing, but always maintains a clear-eyed view of the seriousness of the brothers' crimes. An absorbing read.
Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice
Kevin Cullen, Shelley Murphy · 503 pages
Chronicles the criminal career of the gangster who provided a protection racket against drug lords, ran illegal gambling, robbed banks, and served as an informant for the FBI until going into hiding for sixteen years. Raised in a South Boston housing project, James "Whitey" Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this story the authors follow his criminal career from teenage
Hitman: The Untold Story of Johnny Martorano: Whitey Bulger's Enforcer and the Most Feared Gangster in the Underworld
Howie Carr · 477 pages
Crime reporter Howie Carr takes us into the heart of the life of Johnny Martorano. For two decades, Martorano struck fear into anyone even remotely connected to his world. His partnership with Whitey Bulger and the infamous Winter Hill Gang led to twenty murders--for which Johnny would serve twelve years in prison. Carr also looks at the politicians and FBI agents who aided Johnny and Whitey, and
Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife
Georgette Winkeler · 388 pages
"When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler--wife of one of Al Capone's 'American Boys'--set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 yea
Wiseguy
Nicholas Pileggi · 308 pages
Presents a firsthand account of organized crime showing it's brutality and fascination.
Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family
John H. Davis · 544 pages
"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
Charles Brandt · 320 pages
"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned t
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 pages