Rat Bastards: The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster

The Untouchables

Eliot Ness, Oscar Fraley · 256 pages

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

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

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

Phil Leonetti, Scott Burnstein, Christopher Graziano

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

Henry Hill, Gus Russo · 300 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

Donnie Brasco

Joseph D. Pistone, Richard Woodley · 413 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

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.

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

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.

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

Stanley Tookie Williams · 400 pages

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

Chris W. Knight · 284 pages

Mafia Queens Of Mumbai: Stories Of Women From The Ganglands

Hussain S. Zaidi, Jane Borges · 290 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.

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

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

Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed

Mandy Wiener

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

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

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