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Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry.

Shaun Attwood, former ecstasy kingpin in Arizona turned author and podcast-host, has gained a reputation for earning the trust of some of the world's most dangerous people, including gangsters, serial killers, and mafia enforcers. Drawing on his many hours of interview material, along with new content exclusive to the book, Shaun collates a collection of hard-hitting conversations with ten of the most dangerous female gangsters he's met.

At the dawn of the country’s brave new democracy, Cape Town was at war. Pagad, which began as a community protest action against crime, had mutated into a sinister vigilante group wreaking death and destruction across the city. Between 1996 and 2001, there were hundreds of bomb blasts—most infamously at the Planet Hollywood restaurant at the V&A Waterfront—and countless targeted hits on druglords and gang bosses.

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 Sisterhood A PARADE BEST BOOK OF...

Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984. From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for British intelligence.

In un mondo sempre più interconnesso, dove le distanze vengono annullate da un click e i luoghi d'incontro virtuali stanno soppiantando quelli reali, anche le mafie stanno imparando ad adattarsi: sfruttando le potenzialità della tecnologia, si addentrano nello spazio digitale come fosse un nuovo territorio di conquista. Ancora una volta, la criminalità organizzata dà prova di essere estremamente flessibile e capace di stare al passo coi tempi. Non si serve più di picciotti rozzi e sfrontati, ma di abili professionisti con competenze nel settore informatico e finanziario.

In the shadows of Northeastern Pennsylvania, a clandestine empire emerged—one that would become synonymous with the essence of organized crime. The Bufalino Mafia Crime Family takes you on a gripping journey through the tumultuous history of the notorious Bufalino crime syndicate. This meticulously researched and fascinating narrative unveils the hidden layers of a mafia family that left an indelible mark on American criminal history.

John Gilligan is no altar boy, by his own admission. One of Ireland's most infamous criminals and drug lords, and widely believed in the court of public opinion to have ordered the cold-blooded murder of crime reporter Veronica Guerin, he remains a defiant figure. In this remarkable book—the first of its kind—journalist Jason O'Toole distills hours of sensational face-to-face, no-holds-barred interviews with the feared criminal into a fast-paced and jaw-dropping account of the Irish gangland scene.

A “touching memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) that “brilliantly blends a history of Boston and its surrounding areas with the history of a fascinating—and at times functional—family” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts) as one girl...

Back then, hot-headed gangsters, not-so-gentle dames and bullet-riddled corpses filled the newspaper headlines. And some of the stories below the headlines were even true. The 1920s was a period in American history when even the respectable were unwilling to stay sober. And not-so-fast cars carried assassins across Chicago, a city that for many captures the essence of the USA. In Tough Guys in the Room, the story of Al Capone and his rivals is told in separate and stand-alone topics that cover key figures and events.

New York, 1920. Quartiere di Hell’s Kitchen, un nome che evoca bolge dantesche e descrive perfettamente una realtà di miseria, speranza e razzismo. È lì che inizia la storia di Mario Puzo, figlio dell’immigrazione italiana e autore de Il padrino, un libro dal successo planetario destinato a fondare il mito di Cosa nostra con cui facciamo i conti tuttora.

Alle 16.58 del 19 luglio 1992 in via D’Amelio, a Palermo, scende la notte. Un’esplosione devasta la strada e le auto parcheggiate uccidendo il giudice Paolo Borsellino e cinque agenti della scorta. È l’attentato più annunciato della storia. A meno di due mesi dalla strage di Capaci in cui è morto Giovanni Falcone, senza che sia stato fatto nulla per evitarlo. E senza essere arrivati, trent’anni dopo, a una verità definitiva su mandanti e responsabili.

Some would say, we, the people of now, are living in the future. And as we take the time to look around at the infinite inventions and creative scientific solutions humanity has gifted us with to date, it's easy to understand their sentiment. But what about the often overlooked, but gravely authentic past of the depravities humankind has stooped down to under the guise of “science?”

Os Peaky Blinders que conhecemos graças à série de TV transbordam drama e medo. Elegantemente vestidos, os carismáticos―mas profundamente falhos―Thomas Shelby e aliados se tornaram famosos por seus feitos atrozes, cujos desdobramentos resultaram em guerras sangrentas contra gangues irlandesas, em embates contra autoridades, em esquemas de extorsão de dinheiro e no competitivo ambiente de apostas legais e ilegais nas pistas de corrida de cavalos na virada do século XIX para o XX.

Devadesátá léta byla nejen dobou nadějných vyhlídek svobodné společnosti, ale i úrodným podhoubím organizovaného zločinu. Investigativní novinář Josef Klíma osobně poznal jeho aktéry – majitele Discolandu Silvie Ivana Jonáka, technologa orlických vražd Karla Kopáče, hlavy podsvětí Radovana Krejčíře či Františka Mrázka, vrahy Ivana Roubala i Jiřího Kajínka. Jak organizovaný zločin ovlivňoval polistopadovou politiku? A jak se postupně měnil v nebezpečnou realitu? Josef Klíma se snaží najít odpovědi společně s bývalými policisty, advokáty i pracovníky v tajných službách.

Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force―the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed “The Tsunami”, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.

Fear is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodriguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has terrorised and controlled what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of San Fernando, Mexico, almost one hundred miles from the US border. Having dyed her hair red as a disguise, Miriam watches, waits, and then orchestrates the arrest of this man, exacting her own revenge.

Step into the shadowy realm of the Patriarca Mafia Crime Family, where power, deception, and ambition intermingle to create a riveting saga that has left an indelible mark on New England's criminal history. In this meticulously documented narrative, Mafia Library uncovers the untold story of one of America's most infamous crime families, tracing its origins from the turbulent days of Prohibition to its enduring presence in the 21st century.

Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don . . . The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the Youngstown, Ohio, faction of the family launched a brutal mob war against the weakening Cleveland mafia and the Altoona, Pennsylvania, crew violently clamped down on their city.

¿Sientes fascinación por el mundo oculto del crimen organizado? ¿Quieres descubrir qué familia sirvió de inspiración para la aclamada serie de televisión Los Soprano? Si quieres descubrir los secretos de una de las organizaciones criminales más notorias de la historia de los Estados Unidos, entonces debes leer este libro.