Organized Crime
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Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
$31.99 Add to cartMotor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly… [more below]
- Author: Burnstein, Scott M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1531624545
- Language: English
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City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
$18.00 Add to cartNow one of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best Books of the Year
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking–winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold D- Author: French, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250170591
- Language: English
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Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy the Bull Gravano, and Me!
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal.
Karen Gravano is the- Author: Gravano, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 12 2013
- ISBN10: 1250022207
- Language: English
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Alcatraz: A History of the Penitentiary Years
$49.95 Add to cartALCATRAZ – the name alone said it all… It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation’s most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al Capone of his power. It tamed “Machine Gun” Kelly in
- Author: Esslinger, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 610
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0970461461
- Language: English
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The Harlem Plug: The Richard ‘Fritz’ Simmons Story
$24.99 Add to cart“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.” MALCOLM X
In Harlem’s tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York C
- Author: Holiday, Harlem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0990613119
- Language: English
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Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Ww2 Era America
$17.95 Add to cartNow in paperback! The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the years leading to WWII–and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back. With an i… [more below]
- Author: Benson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0806541806
- Language: English
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The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit
$21.99 Add to cartChicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood.
The crew’s origins predate Prohibition, when Ch
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Luzi, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1609497333
- Language: English
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The Roof Don’t Leak: Thoughts, Reflections and Wisdom
$16.95 Add to cartThis book is a collection of thoughts provided through the eyes of Tommie “Ttop” Rivers. Rivers takes the reader on an exploration of his life through his lessons learned and highlights thoughts he li… [more below]
- Author: Rivers, Tommie Ttop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218225032
- Language: English
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Shooting for the Mob: Based on the Incredible True Filmmaking Story
$14.99 Add to cartA bipolar gangster, a naive, young film director and Batman. What could go wrong? Alex Ferrari is a first-time film director who just got hired to direct a $20 million feature film, the only problem i
- Author: Ferrari, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0578722658
- Language: English
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Gun, Needle, Spoon
$14.95 Add to cartThis memoir follows a punk rock pioneer on his slide into drug abuse and life as an armed robber, all the way through life in recovery and what it’s like to look back on those times, knowing all the w
- Author: O’Neil, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1936873575
- Language: English
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The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
$14.95 Add to cartThe gripping account of an extraordinary international narcotics case, as it unfolds on the streets of New York City.
- Author: Moore, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1592280447
- Language: English
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Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
$18.99 Add to cartThis harrowing, no-holds-barred true story is the “brash account of a reformed bad boy’s decision to help the federal government take down Green Nation, the Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang” (Kirkus Revie… [more below]
- Author: Rowe, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1451667353
- Language: English
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Rogue Town
$19.99 Add to cart“Your boss, Hogan, is running the whole drug and gambling racket in Fairfield County.”
Vito Colucci had only been a cop in Stamford, CT for about a year and a half when he landed an assignment in the N
- Author: Colucci, Vito
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987847701
- Language: English
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100 Most Infamous Criminals: Murder, Mayhem and Madness
$12.99 Add to cartAn indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, revealing the often strange and grisly stories behind the world’s most infamous murderers, swindlers and crooks.
100 Most Infamous Criminals i- Series: True Criminals #2
- Author: Durden Smith, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1398809241
- Language: English
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The Foggy Bottom Gang: The Story of the Warring Brothers of Washington, DC
$17.95 Add to cartIn the town of lawmaking, three brothers thrived in lawbreaking
Before Prohibition, Leo, Emmitt, and Charles “Rags” Warring worked as laborers in their father’s barrel shop. When the (illegal) booze st
- Author: Warring, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1950843327
- Language: English
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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone
$20.95 Add to cartThe machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century. Or so the story went. Since then it has been featured in … [more below]
- Author: Helmer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 317
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1581825498
- Language: English
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Shocking Stories of the Cleveland Mob
$31.99 Add to cartThey are the dirty little secrets of Cleveland’s past, mob guys so good–or so bad–that you rarely hear their stories. Men such as Micky McBride turned newsboys into sluggers, gave bookies a run for … [more below]
- Author: Schwarz, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 03 2010
- ISBN10: 154022404X
- Language: English
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Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice
$21.99 Add to cartLike most cities during Prohibition, Kansas City had illegal alcohol, bootleggers, speakeasies, cops on the take, corrupt politicians and moralizing reformers. But by the time the Eighteenth Amendment… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Simonson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1467138711
- Language: English
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Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medell? Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
$20.00 Add to cartBLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung’s roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar’s Medellin cartel– the largest importer of the United States
- Author: Porter, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN10: 1250067782
- Language: English
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Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
$29.99 Read moreA Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Sight and Sound Best Film Book Of 2020
For the thirtieth anniversary of its premiere comes the vivid and immersive history behind Martin Scorsese’s signature fi… [more below]
- Author: Kenny, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1335016503
- Language: English
