Organized Crime
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Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing
$19.99 Add to cartA finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith’s wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing
- Author: Smith, Chas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 0062202537
- Language: English
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Gangland Boston: A Tour Through the Deadly Streets of Organized Crime
$18.95 Add to cartA guided tour of Boston’s underworld, revealing the places where deals were made, people were killed, and bodies were buried
Gangsters have played a major role in shaping Greater Boston’s history. Whil… [more below]
- Author: Sweeney, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1493030361
- Language: English
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Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago during Prohibition
$34.75 Add to cartAlthough much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been–until now–a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire … [more below]
- Author: Binder, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633888320
- Language: English
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Pablo Escobar: Beyond Narcos
$14.99 Add to cartThe mind-blowing true story of Pablo Escobar and the Medell n Cartel beyond their portrayal on Netflix.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was a devoted family man and a psychopathic killer; a terribl
- Series: War on Drugs #1
- Author: Attwood, Shaun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: August 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1912885018
- Language: English
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Carmine the Snake
$18.00 Add to cartThe shocking true story of the most ruthless and deadly mob boss in the annals of the American Mafia.
In the golden age of organized crime, Carmine “The Snake” Persico was the King of the Streets. Th… [more below]
- Author: Dimatteo, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0806538821
- Language: English
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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
$19.00 Add to cartIn this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tin… [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0307279278
- Language: English
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Sunny Skies, Shady Characters: Cops, Killers, and Corruption in the Aloha State
$19.99 Add to cartFor thirty years starting in the mid-1970s, the byline of Jim Dooley appeared on riveting investigative stories of organized crime and political corruption that headlined the front page of Honolulu’s
- Author: Dooley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0824851641
- Language: English
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A Peek Under the Hood: Heroin, Hope, and Operation Tune-Up
$18.99 Add to cartFirst Place Winner, True Crime, 2023 Firebird Book Award
A Peek Under the Hood is a true crime exposé of the case that freed an entire inner-city neighborhood from the perils and decay wrought by hero
- Author: Pevarnik, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1578691486
- Language: English
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Dream Room: Tales of the Dixie Mafia
$23.95 Add to cartDream Room: Tales of the Dixie Mafia, Chet Nicholson’s breakout true-crime book is a thrilling tale that takes the reader inside the infamous Dixie Mafia. The band of loosely organized criminals opera
- Author: Nicholson, Chet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0988212609
- Language: English
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It’s Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories
$18.95 Add to cartIn It’s Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of i
- Author: Broadmeadow, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: October 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1733526404
- Language: English
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The Valachi Papers
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“As fascinating as fiction, a bloody history of the Mafia as lived by one of its members.” —New York Times Book Review
The First Inside Account of the Mafia
In the 1960s a disg
- Author: Maas, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 006050742X
- Language: English
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
$22.99 Add to cart- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0063031426
- Language: English
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece: An Edgar Award Winner
$17.99 Add to cartIn the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world’s most famous paintings, Edvard Munch’s Scream. It was a braz
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060531185
- Language: English
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Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
$29.00 Read moreA Financial Times Book of the Year
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” –Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale “A fascinating
An Economist Best Book of the Year- Author: Campbell, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593329236
- Language: English
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The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
$19.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his
- Author: Higdon, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038494
- Language: English
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To Kill the Irishman: The War that Crippled the Mafia
$32.00 Add to cartBasis for the motion picture Kill the Irishman with Ray Stevenson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken. The the true story of fearless Irish-American racketeer Danny Greene, the Irishma
- Author: Porrello, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0966250869
- Language: English
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Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop
$29.00 Add to cartAn incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departments
In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of S- Author: Garcia-Roberts, Gus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 3, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541730399
- Language: English
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Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, And The Sting That Launched The War On Drugs
$26.83 Add to cartAuthor Jason Ryan takes us back to the heady days before drug smuggling was synonymous with deadly gunplay. During this golden age of marijuana trafficking, the country’s most prominent kingpins were … [more below]
- Author: Ryan, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0762780304
- Language: English
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Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels
$26.95 Read moreDrug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists.
VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth- Author: Bonello, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0807007048
- Language: English
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Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia
$29.95 Add to cartA riveting history of the Mafia from 1860s Sicily to 1960s America–as narrated by a former heist expert and Gambino family mobster.
The culmination Louis Ferrante’s exhaustive research delving deep i- Series: Borgata Trilogy
- Author: Ferrante, Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366016
- Language: English
