Organized Crime
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Tokyo Noir: In and Out of Japan’s Underworld
$22.00 Add to cartA darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expos?, and memoir.
It’s 2008, and it’s been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the
- Author: Adelstein, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1957363916
- Language: English
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The Devil to Pay: A Mobster’s Road to Perdition
$27.99 Read moreGoodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man’s unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption.
Growing up in S
- Author: Hicks, Sean Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79887E+12
- Language: English
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Sunshine State Mafia: A History of Florida’s Mobsters, Hit Men, and Wise Guys
$28.00 Add to cartInside accounts and little known stories of criminal networks
A vivid, wild
in Florida’s past
ride through a century of Mafia lore, this book tells stories of organized
crime rings that have settled in- Author: Kelly, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0813080487
- Language: English
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The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino
$10.99 Add to cartTo what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassinate Fidel Castro? In organizing the historic meetin… [more below]
- Author: Birkbeck, Matt
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0425266850
- Language: English
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Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
$25.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1633882853
- Language: English
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
$20.00 Read moreThe basis of Martin Scorcese’s acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city’s dark past.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys o
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0307388980
- Language: English
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McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food Hi
$30.00 Add to cartIn this stranger than fiction story of the massive crime network that rigged the McDonald’s monopoly game for decades, unlock new, exclusive interviews and stories that couldn’t make it into the HBO d… [more below]
- Author: Hernandez, James Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1538720116
- Language: English
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Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even
$27.99 Read moreA necessary narrative that extends compassion and dignity to those our society often withholds it from.
After the death of her paternal aunt, Nicole returns to the town that gave her family its street- Author: Treska, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1668005042
- Language: English
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Interrupting Violence: One Man’s Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself
$47.42 Add to cartPart memoir and part call to action, Interrupting Violence is a blueprint for cities across America looking for a new way to address community violence. Readers will be energized by the book Kirkus Re
- Author: Williams, Cobe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1538166879
- Language: English
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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang
life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth
portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigati… [more below]- Author: Bowden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163327
- Language: English
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The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant La
$28.00 Add to cart“A searing account of gang violence and its consequences…Macedo’s grim story, expertly documented by Katz, cries for a documentary series to follow his fortunes as, after years in prison, he strives… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1662601735
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Mob: The Return Of Organized Crime To The Queen City (Illustrated Extended Edition)
$12.99 Read moreAn introduction into the history of crime in Buffalo
- The beginnings of Mafia activity in the Queen City
- Past and present alleged leaders, soldiers and associates of The Arm and its affiliated operations
- Author: Clingman, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 196383500X
- Language: English
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Born in the Life – Gene Borrello
$19.99 Add to cartGene Borrello’s story isn’t something that everyone has already heard, read about, or seen on various documentaries and dramatic cable shows about the history of the Mafia. His story is current, not s
- Author: Romano, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9798869389244
- Language: English
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
$18.99 Add to cartThe new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago.
A Chicago Public L
- Author: Collins, Max Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0062441957
- Language: English
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Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America’s Bloodiest Asian Gang
$18.99 Add to cartThroughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York’s Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families b
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0061782386
- Language: English
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El Chapo: The Story of the World’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
$12.99 Read moreJoaqu? “El Chapo” Guzm? is one of the highest-profile narco-terrorists the world has ever seen. Beginning work aged nine as a farmhand harvesting opium, El Chapo rose to the leadership of the Sinaloa
- Series: True Crime Casefiles
- Author: Burrows, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1839406623
- Language: English
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Blood Brotherhoods
$56.00 Add to cartMAFIA. CAMORRA. ‘NDRANGHETA.
The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy’s only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples;- Author: Dickie, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1610394275
- Language: English
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The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World
$19.95 Add to cartNow in paperback, the inside story–from the organizer himself–of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account that brings the reader behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas th… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 149302664X
- Language: English
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A Lie Will Suffice: A DiGiovanni Family History
$23.95 Add to cartIn 1893 Western Sicily, Gaetano DiGiovanni, twenty-five years old, foresees a day when he abandons his turbulent, hard-scrabble life in the Palermo Province hinterlands for the promise of America. His
- Author: Wilkinson, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639856625
- Language: English
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Los Padrotes Tlaxcala / The Pimps of Tlaxcala
$15.95 Read moreSin lugar a duda, Los padrotes de Tlaxcala es un libro duro y desgarrador que pone de manifiesto el lado perverso de la sociedad de consumo, cuya maquinaria ha creado un mercado para la esclavitud sex… [more below]
- Author: V?squez, Juan Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 6073829752
- Language: Spanish
