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Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
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Reymundo Sanchez, Sonia Rodriguez · 288 pages
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 pages
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.
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
Shoko Tendo · 216 pages
Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
Ralph Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman · 259 pages
Dozens of photos, including many from private collections and from noted photographers, provide visual documentation to this extraordinary tale. Never simply a story about motorcycles, colorful characters, and high-speed thrills, Hell's Angel is the ultimate outlaw's tale of loyalty and betrayal, subcultures and brotherhood, and the real price of freedom.
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Sanyika Shakur · 383 pages
A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
Joseph Bonanno · 416 pages
Joseph Bonanno provides a unique view of life inside the Mafia, describing the organization and its important figures and his vision of this closed society as a confederacy of men of honor.
Donnie Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
Molly Bloom · 368 pages
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
Ice-T, Douglas Century · 251 pages
The hip-hop artist and television star shares the story of his early life, marked by the deaths of his parents, his involvement in gangs, and the single-minded work ethic that enabled his rise to international fame.
Mr. Nice
Howard Marks · 466 pages
THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealingMarks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford and soon he was moving much
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
The 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
"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
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.
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano
The Bite of Mango
Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland · 216 pages
Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper
Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, Casey Kuhlman · 320 pages
With more than sixty confirmed kills, Gunnery Sgt. Coughlin is the Marine Corps' top-ranked sniper. A divorced father of two who grew up in a wealthy Boston suburb, he had never even held a gun when he joined the Marines, but would spend the next twenty years behind the scope of a long-range precision rifle. In that time he accumulated one of the most successful records in the Corps, ranging throu
Pimp: The Story of My Life
Iceberg Slim · 317 pages
This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar.
Immediate Action
Andy McNab · 458 pages
The most astonishing true story you will ever read - by the author of the million-copy bestseller, Bravo Two Zero.Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War.As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin · 331 pages
For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life.