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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
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.
Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family
John H. Davis · 544 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.
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
Escobar: The Inside Story of Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Powerful Criminal. as Told by His Brother Roberto Escobar
Roberto Escobar Gaviria · 304 pages
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
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.
Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano
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-
El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man. Edited by Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden
Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden
Donnie Brasco
Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 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
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
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
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