True Crime - Organized Crime

The story that could not be written till now!I have been collecting this informatin for more than twenty years. I was personally acquainted with many of the outlaws who nested in the dives along the Tennessee-Mississippi border, and I crossed paths with them while...

America's first great organized-crime lord was a lady--a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. "A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket's finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York."--Liza Mundy, author of The SisterhoodA PARADE...

A 2020 New York Times notable book One of the Chicago Tribune's best nonfiction books of 2020"Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo" --Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "One of 21 books we can't wait to read...

A powerful chronicle of Colombia's descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal. When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, champion of the working class and harbinger of a new era of progressive social change,...

"A fascinating look into an Irish American criminal enterprise that may not have rivaled the Mafia in sophistication, but certainly surpassed it in terror." --The Wall Street JournalThe definitive true story of Hell's Kitchen's savage Irish mob-now the subject of MGM+'s THE WESTIES. This...

A shocking work of investigative true crime from the only journalist fearless enough to expose the hidden networks of radical leftist violence in America. As a New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's foremost investigative reporters on Antifa and left-wing extremism,...

Basis for the motion picture Kill the Irishman with Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken. The the true story of fearless Irish-American racketeer Danny Greene, the Irishman who takes on the mob in a 1970s bombing war. The end result is...

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake...

NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San Francisco Examiner). Jake Adelstein is...

IN THE UNDERBELLY OF KANSAS CITY'S MOST LETHAL STREETS, ONE COP DESCENDS INTO A NIGHTMARE OF ADDICTION, BETRAYAL, AND LOST IDENTITY IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE.Detective Brent Cartwright seemed to have it all-a loving family, a promising police career, and a future full of possibilities....

IN THE UNDERBELLY OF KANSAS CITY'S MOST LETHAL STREETS, ONE COP DESCENDS INTO A NIGHTMARE OF ADDICTION, BETRAYAL, AND LOST IDENTITY IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE.Detective Brent Cartwright seemed to have it all-a loving family, a promising police career, and a future full of possibilities....

El increíble relato en primera persona de Carlos Lehder sobre su vida como narcotraficante y sobre la creación y la evolución del cartel de Medellín. Por más de treinta años se han tejido todo tipo de leyendas en torno al afamado narcotraficante Carlos Lehder....

An inside account of the Hell's Angels, told by one of its most notorious leaders.Author: George Wethern,Vincent ColnettPublisher: Lyons PressPublished: 10/01/2008Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.22h x 6.28w x 0.81dISBN: 9781599214634About the AuthorGeorge Wethern, for years an active member of the Hells Angels, turned...

A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for NonfictionWelcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith's wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu's North Shore--a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty,...

In his second memoir, David Alan Arnold takes us on a Life and Death Adventure, in his helicopter, flying for Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch. But, he also gets into adventures at home, picking a fight with an Organized Crime Ring that took...

Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill--the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's life--has...

"Wiseguys and the White House is an eye-opening, authoritative, remarkably detailed exposé of the interplay between organized crime and our presidents, shockingly revealing how close we have come to Mob rule."--Ronald Kessler, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets of the FBI and...

Was it the Mafia behind the biggest loanshark in New York City, or a group of Long Island Rabbis?Melvin Cooper was a financier with an edge, making risky loans to New York business people until he found himself running the biggest loansharking operation in...

The definitive history of Japanese organized crime, from its origins in samurai-era black markets and gambling rings to the shadowy syndicates of the present. "The best book in English on this fascinating and misunderstood subject." ―Richard Lloyd Parry, author of People Who Eat Darkness...