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Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
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Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill · 400 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
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
Misha Glenny · 387 pages
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 dreams of newly opened markets. But no one could have foreseen that the greatest success story to arise from these events would be the worldwide rise of organized crime. Today, it is estimated that illegal tra
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Roberto Saviano · 301 pages
A major bestseller in Italy, this is a heroic young man's impassioned account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra affects cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast, and is the deciding
Donnie Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 pages
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
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
Richard Lloyd Parry · 400 pages
An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen; British private detectives; Australian d
Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed
Mandy Wiener
The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
T.J. English · 416 pages
Published in the UK for the first time in 2008.
The Untouchables
Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley · 256 pages
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.
Byculla to Bangkok
S. Hussain Zaidi · 194 pages
At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
William C. Rempel · 357 pages
Traces the collaborative effort between two U.S. agents and a security chief for a notorious Colombian drug cartel to dismantle the organization and bring its leaders to justice, a life-risking venture marked by a race to protect the life of a key witness.
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
Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
Brian Krebs · 256 pages
Explores "the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies--and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks--he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers ev
Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family
John H. Davis · 544 pages
Down by the River : Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
Charles Bowden · 448 pages
"Phil Jordan runs DEA intelligence, but when his brother Bruno is killed, he is powerless. Amado Carillo Fuentes runs the most successful drug business in the history of the world, but when his usefulness to governments ceases, he mysteriously dies in a hospital. Carlos Salinas runs Mexico, but as soon as he leaves office, his brother is jailed for murder and Salinas flees into exile. Sal Martinez
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
James McManus · 427 pages
A chronicle of life in Las Vegas investigates the murder of poker player Ted Binion, revealing a secret world of kinky sex, black magic, and science lurking at the heart of gambling's World Series of Poker.
The Valachi Papers
Peter Maas · 304 pages
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
The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel
Roberto Escobar Gaviria
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Bryan Burrough · 624 pages
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to tell the full storyfor the first timeof the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty