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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
243 p.
Language
English
Description
The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as “the real Sopranos”
Giovanni’s Ring is the story of “Giovanni Rocco,” a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as “Giovanni Gatto,” who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin Edition.
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cosa Nostra cogently traces this most powerful and successful of criminal organizations from its surprising beginnings as a protection racket for the lemon and orange groves of Sicily to its more recent history.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 362 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the "war on drugs," which has cost more than 60,000 lives in six years. The author explains in detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages.
Language
English
Description
"Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a city "in its brawny postwar prime," is where "Little Joe" Regino and Russ Shorto build a local gambling empire on the earnings of factory workers for whom placing a bet-on a horse or pool game, pinball or "tip seal"-is their best shot at the American dream. Decades later, Russell Shorto grew up knowing that his grandfather...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,...
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town's immigrant community, and the FBI informant who exposed it. In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town's growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neighbors and threatening them...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xv, 384 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A former mafia associate and heist expert who spent eight years in prison for not incriminating his fellow Gambino family members presents the history of the mafia's first 100 years, from Sicily in the 1860s to America in the 1960s.