Organized Crime
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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
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Catching Hell: A True Story of Abandonment and Betrayal
$34.95 Add to cartFour days on the job Jay Dobyns was shot point-blank in the back by a criminal suspect. The bullet travelled through his lung and exited his chest. For the next twenty-seven years, he accepted every d
- Author: Dobyns, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0692125043
- Language: English
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Organized Crime: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFor many people around the world, instances of what is described as organized crime may be part of their everyday experience; in their neighborhoods, their streets, and the places they work and live. … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Antonopoulos, Georgios A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0198795548
- Language: English
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GarcÃa Luna: El Señor de la Muerte
$14.95 Add to cartTodos los secretos del personaje más corrupto de los sexenios de Fox y Calderón.
Cómo fue que un personaje tan limitado acaparó tanto poder en los sexenios de Fox y Calderón?
Esta es la historia d
- Author: Cruz, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 09 2020
- ISBN10: 6070772830
- Language: Spanish
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Los Señores del Narco = Narcoland
$17.95 Add to cartLos se?ores del narco es una descarnada cr?nica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos c?rculos pol?ticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado.
Esta segunda edici?n- Author: Hern?ndez, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1644732068
- Language: Spanish
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The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
$18.99 Add to cartSoon to be a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio, this gripping true story of the origins of the Mafia in America follows the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it.… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1328911195
- Language: English
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Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
$26.95 Read moreThe definitive history of drug cartels, this “investigative magnum opus” takes readers to the frontlines of the ‘war on drugs’ in Latin America (Los Angeles Times)
The product of five years’ investig- Author: Hernández, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1781682968
- Language: English
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Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
$19.99 Add to cartEven in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile … [more below]
- Author: Coen, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1569765456
- Language: English
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Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect
$38.99 Add to cartSt. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town s illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang,… [more below]
- Author: Waugh, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1540204715
- Language: English
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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
$20.00 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 Read moreNow 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
