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A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno
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Reymundo Sanchez · 304 pages
Siberian Education: Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld
Nicolai Lilin · 447 pages
By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first 'pike knife' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder . . . Nicolai Lilin gained his 'education' as a member of the Siberian Urkas - a small and tight-knit community of 'honest criminals' in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe . . . Siberian Education is his tale of an extreme childhood - exotic, vio
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Sanyika Shakur · 383 pages
Donnie Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter
Shoko Tendo · 216 pages
Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
Reymundo Sanchez, Sonia Rodriguez · 288 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.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 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
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
Our Story
Reggie Kray, Ronnie Kray, Fred Dinenage · 159 pages
Compiled from a series of interviews behind prison walls, 'Our Story' is the book that finally explodes the myths that have surrounded the Kray twins.
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
Roberto Escobar Gaviria
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Michael Patrick MacDonald · 266 pages
In this book, the author takes us deep into the secret heart of Southie. With radiant insight, he opens up a contradictory world, where residents are besieged by gangs and crime but refuse to admit any problems, remaining fiercely loyal to their community.
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano
Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family
Frank Calabrese Jr., Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, Paul Pompian · 323 pages
While in prison with his father, Frank Calabrese Sr., on racketeering charges, Frank Jr, a former member of the Chicago crime syndicate known as the Outfit, offered to help the FBI keep his father in prison for life by testifying against him. Now in the federal witness protection program and living in an undisclosed location, Frank Jr. gives an insider's view of the Outfit and how he helped expose
Gangsters and Goodfellas: Wiseguys . . . and Life on the Run
Henry Hill, Gus Russo · 300 pages
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.
Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs
Charles Falco, Kerrie Droban · 253 pages
An account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs.
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 ...
"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
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-