True Crime - Organized Crime

With a new introduction by the author. The true, absorbing and sometimes frightening documentary of the world's most successful narcotics investigation, The French Connection is one of the most fascinating crime accounts of our time. When New York City detectives Eddie "Popeye" Egan and...

In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia--characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and...

Goodfella Tapes by George Anastasia is the true story of how the FBI recorded a mob war and brought down a mafia don. A riveting, eye-opening true crime masterwork in the vein of Wiseguy, Underboss, Havana Nocturne, The Valachi Papers, and other bestselling exposés...

Written by Meyer Lansky's grandson, this definitive portrait of the legendary "Mob's Accountant" chronicles the singular life of the business entrepreneur who built a gambling empire, perfected money laundering, established a more efficient Mafia, and changed the course of organized crime forever--featuring never-before-seen personal...

You've had the Cocaine Cowboys, the Hippie Mafia and Barry Seal. Now you have Skip the fulcrum between the US War On Drugs, Colombia's Medellin Cartel Narcotraffickers, the capture of Panama's General Manuel Noriega and a new generation!This is a gritty, richly detailed, and...

A compelling and entertaining look at organized crime in Rhode Island in the 1970s.Author: Wayne Worcester,Randall Richard,Tim WhitePublisher: Globe Pequot PublishingPublished: 08/01/2016Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60dISBN: 9781493009596Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/12/2016About the AuthorTim White is a prize-winning investigative reporter...

"T.J. English hits the bullseye again. This is true crime writing at its most gripping and immediate -- a riveting epic about crooked cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and politicians who corrupted a continent and got snow to flow out of the tropics. The Last...

"T.J. English hits the bullseye again. This is true crime writing at its most gripping and immediate -- a riveting epic about crooked cops, lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and politicians who corrupted a continent and got snow to flow out of the tropics. The Last...

The Last Mob Lawyer presents a rare glimpse behind the curtain of some of the mob's best-kept secrets--told by the only man still alive to share them. Post-World-War-II New Jersey was the breeding ground for some of the most notorious mobsters in American history....

The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book...

The world called him a killer. She called him Dad . . . An intimate look at the real-life killer played by Mark Wahlberg in the film "By Any Means" "We were always worried. Always looking over our shoulders . . ." Linda Scarpa...

A true crime Mafia classic, this homicide hall of fame is loaded with thrilling, graphically detailed accounts of the greatest outlandish and brazen executions only the Mob would ever dare to pull off. No one will ever truly know how many gangland executions the...

There are two worlds out there - an "in the open" world where people go about their daily lives. Locked in by borders and governed by laws. In this world, people live with a false sense of security in "the system". Now juxtapose this...

"Wickedest place in the wickedest section of Des Moines" --Des Moines RegisterIn the first decades of the twentieth century, saloon proprietor Erastus Wallace Scott of Des Moines--with his cousins in the infamous Carter Gang--operated a campaign of murder, fraud, corruption, and prostitution from his...

"Riveting...Will inevitably be compared with Patrick Radden Keefe's nonfiction blockbuster...But its themes are arguably even more resonant in the current political moment."―The Washington Post From New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Ali Watkins, the long-buried story of how a group of Philadelphia gunrunners...

Fall captive to the code--the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate's life. Pirates have long captured our imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches, and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was...

WINNER of the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize "For a tough-guy book about tough guys, this is a work of almost unerring tenderness. If its subtitle promises "redemption," the book itself delivers something more honest: stories about people broken by powers larger than...

In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was...

This enduring and fascinating chronicle of the Cleveland Mafia was written after the author's many years of research into the murders of his grandfather and three uncles, who were mob bosses. The seven Porrello brothers and four Lonardo brothers, former boyhood friends in Licata,...

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people....