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4) A mob story
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010, c2002
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
295 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chris Paciello seemed to have it all. With heartthrob good looks and an A-list roster of clients and friends, he was a South Beach businessman/playboy whose local fame was reaching new heights-until his "wise guy" past came crashing down upon him.
When some of Chris's former 'fellas were arrested, they ratted him out to the government. One case in particular-a botched robbery that turned deadly-was a time bomb that would blow the cushy new world...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
vi, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles the contract killers, fixers, and enforcers whose violent acts of conspiracy, racketeering, extortion, and murder helped John Gotti become the most powerful crime boss in America.
Author
Series
Killing volume 10
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
Publisher
Ad Lib Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
All the varieties of power — star, political, sexual, criminal and emotional — are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra and the Mafia.
Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA and big-city police departments, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal Sinatra's pact with the Mob in shocking detail.
With additional evidence from decades of investigations and testimony,...
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of one of the most powerful mobsters in America describes growing up amidst the glamour and tragedy of 1940s, '50s, and '60s Las Vegas and recounts knowing Bugsy Siegel, Lucky Luciano, and Frank Sinatra during her childhood.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 375 p. , [16] p. plates : map, gen. table, ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using previously untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash presents the gripping story of the birth of the Italian Mafia in America, and brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
532 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century's darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing
A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the Roaring Twenties--the last...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co., Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
220 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A detailed re-examination of the mysterious 1941 death of a mafia informant.
It remains one of the most enduring mysteries in gangland lore: in 1941, while Abe Reles and three other key informants were under round-the-clock NYPD protection, the ruthless and powerful thug took a deadly plunge from the window of a Coney Island hotel. The first criminal of his stature to break the underworld's code of silence, he had begun "singing" for the courts-giving...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Citadel hardcover printing.
Physical Desc
xiv, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on exclusive interviews before his death in 2020 at age 103, SONNY is the first and only authorized biography of legendary mob boss John "Sonny" Franzese, the head of the Columbo crime family and financier of the infamous film Deep Throat. An old school Mafioso, he kept silent on his nine decade career in organized crime, remaining loyal to the Mafia oath throughout 30 years in prison, until he finally agreed to talk to award-winning Newsday...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America during the 1930s and 1940s--and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back...with a vengeance.With an intense cinematic style, acclaimed nonfiction crime author Michael Benson divulges the thrilling role of Jewish mobsters like Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel in stomping out the terrifying tide of Nazi sympathizers in the years leading to WWII." -- amazon.com....
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