True Crime - Organized Crime

The true story of FBI agent Mike Campi who led some of the most relentless and successful attacks on organized crime in American history. A unique and unexpected set of circumstances caused former FBI agent Mike Campi to finally step forward and reveal himself....

A gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society. In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes readers on a fascinating journey into the shadowy...

One of Time Magazine's Sixteen Best True Crime Books of All Time A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico In the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war,...

Mimi: The Perilous Journey of a Free-Spirited Texas Woman tells the extraordinary true story of a Texas debutante who lived a life few could imagine. A niece of Texas Senator John Tower, Mimi's journey takes her from tragedy and privilege to the dangerous heart...

"Ninety percent of [what] was written about me is bullshit"Isadore Blumenfeld, aka Kid Cann, came to Minnesota as a toddler when his family emigrated from Romania. In Prohibition-era Minneapolis, a city of vast wealth inequality and vicious antisemitism, young Isadore rose from impoverished newsboy...

Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the...

Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the...

The true story of Kansas City's longest-reigning crime family boss. Nick Civella, a former tire theif, against all odds, took over leadership of the local mob, known as the "Outfit", and for the next 30 years oversaw the varied rackets common to La Cosa...

Wiseguys called him "the Keith Richards of the American Mafia" and JFK hero Jim Garrison denounced him as "one of the most notorious vice operators in the history of New Orleans" ... but you can just call him MR. NEW ORLEANS. Mr. New Orleans...

On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small farming town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat...

"They finally got me... Emprise...the Mafia...John Adamson. Find him." Investigative reporter Don Bolles used his final words to name the people he believed had set the car bomb that had left him dying in a hotel parking lot in midtown Phoenix. In his fourteen...

"The inside story of a single Brooklyn gang that killed more Americans than the Iraqi army."--Mike McAlary, columnist, New York Post They were the DeMeo gang--the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them...

Join me as I share my background and how I became an FBI Special Agent. I take the reader through what the almost five months of training at the FBI Academy were like, the challenges, the stress, and, of course, some of the humorous...

A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of these families' power in the 14th century. 1343: there is famine in Naples. After nightfall, a Genoese ship loaded with wheat...

Author: Artis HendersonPublisher: HarperPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.51w x 1.18dISBN: 9780358650270Review Citation(s): Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 62Publishers Weekly 07/14/2025Shelf Awareness 09/05/2025Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2025About the AuthorHenderson, Artis: - Artis Henderson's work has appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast,...

Get an exclusive, factual look inside the extraordinary thirty-year career of FBI Special Agent Alan L. Brown (aka "Allen Gordon"), a veteran who served not only as a street agent and firearms instructor but also as a pioneer FBI pilot, instructor, and check airman....

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence...

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence...

Never has the saying "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" had more truth than when the US government and the criminal underground joined forces to defeat the Nazi menace. For the first time ever the full story of how Charles "Lucky" Luciano--the...

From the award-winning author of Mafia Confession: "King of Bootleggers" Murder and City of Betrayal: The Genovese Family's Springfield Crew comes his most explosive true crime chronicle yet, Outlaw Bikers and the Mob.Montreal was always a city of shadows. The cobblestones told stories, but...