Gangsters and Goodfellas: Wiseguys . . . and Life on the Run

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

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

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 ...

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

The Untouchables

Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley · 256 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.

Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra

Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano

Donnie Brasco

Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 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.

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-

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

Son of Scarface: A Memoir by the Grandson of Al Capone

Chris W. Knight · 284 pages

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 pages

Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster

Jonathan Eig · 474 pages

Drawing on thousands of pages of recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone's handwritten personal letters, "New York Times" bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation's most notorious criminal in rich new detail.

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

Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone

John Kobler · 409 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

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

When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder

Steve Fischer · 240 pages

Vegas like you’ve never seen, tales you’ve never heard – until now. Sizzling, behind-the-headlines stories about the men, the Mob, movie stars, and missing money that made ’50s and ’60s Vegas such a hot spot in the Nevada desert. Those were the days... When Frank Sinatra threw a chair at the casino boss of the Sands and stormed out. When all the Mob bosses decided to kill Bugsy Siegel and ta

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.

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.

My Name is Abu Salem

S. Hussain Zaidi · 248 pages

"Mumbai has produced many dons - but perhaps none so colourful as Abu Salem. The flamboyant ex-aide of Dawood Ibrahim is best known for his involvement in the Mumbai blasts of 1993 and for the murder of music composer Gulshan Kumar. But he became equally famous for his relationship with actress Monica Bedi and his close connection to Bollywood, leading to a number of attempted murders of the film