Organized Crime

In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketballs most respected referees. 16-page b&w photo insert.Featured on NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before b... More

The Mafia Encyclopedia, third edition offers an unflinching survey of the mob`s most influential personalities; their power struggles, crimes and rackets; and their unique culture and jaragon. Completely updated to cover the five main Mafia families, the history of the Mafia, current cases, internat... More

This is a landmark reference book that collects information gathered from source around the global and uses it to expose the insidious presence of criminal enterprises in every part of the world. Among the most notorious crime leaders, many not well known in the United States despite the long reach ... More

A groundbreaking investigation of how illicit commerce is changing the world by transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments. In this fascinating and comprehensive examination of the underside of globalization, Moises Naim illuminates the struggle between traffickers and the... More

Taking readers deep inside the world of money laundering, this intriguing book shows it to be a highly sophisticated business that poses a threat to the world's financial institutions and global markets.The Washing Machine is an intriguing book that takes the reader deep inside the world of money la... More

For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damages to America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is... More

A noted "New York Times" journalist presents the history of the Mafia's infamous Five Families, the campaign to eradicate them, and the Mob's refusal to die.Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) ... More

As head of the Bonanno clan, Joey Massino was the last don, and ran his world with an iron hand--until he got hit with a murder rap and turned on his own people. Here, for the first time, is his shocking true story. Includes photos. Original.The inside story of the don and the family who may have in... More

Mafia expert and bestselling author of The Kennedy Contract traces the Gambino family from its arrival to the U.S. in the '20s to the downfall of mob boss John Gotti in 1992. A violent saga of bloodshed and betrayal. Photos.The Gambinos--they arrived in America from Sicily when the 20's roared with ... More

"Reppetto's book earns its place among the best . . . he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling." --"The New York Times Book Review" Organized crime--the Italian American kind--has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced hist... More

From "The Sixth Family," according to witness testimony: "BROOKLYN, MAY 5, 1981" "We were in the closet. We all had our weapons loaded. We sat there and waited for the doorbell to ring," said Salvatore Vitale, a slender New York mobster known as Good-Looking Sal. "We left the door open a smidge to... More

Nee's narrative transports the reader into the criminal underworld, inside the planning and preparation for an armored car heist, inside gang wars, and revenge killings. His stories are sometimes dark and brutal, but they shed light on the world in which we live, and are stories that only he can tel... More

This riveting chronicle of the biggest takedown in mob history is told through the story of Ron Previte, the FBI informant who brought it down. Includes a 16-page photo insert."It's over. You'd have to be Ray Charles not to see it." --former New Jersey capo Ron Previte, on the mob today As a cop, Ro... More

By turns harrowing and heroic, compelling and inspiring, "Without a Badge" reads like a thriller, a white-knuckle ride into a world few people ever see--a trip inside the heady world of Columbia's deadly drug cartels.... More

Using a "Murder Meter," Jacobs offers a riveting exploration of more than 25 of the most famous and infamous Mob assassinations of the 20th century.... More

Corbitt--along with the godson and namesake of a former Chicago mob boss--tells the gritty, often gruesome, personal account of how he slipped between the deadly, conflicting worlds of cop and mobster with terrifying, almost schizophrenic ease.An expose of organised crime and its unholy alliance wit... More

The first truly in-depth look at the history of the mob in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1980s when the last vestiges of mob influence were revealed through investigations of former SAG President Ronald Reagan and his union backers. From the time Harry Cohn of Columbia and Louis B. Mayer of MGM ac... More

This is a dangerous, politically explosive international literary sensation. Roberto Saviano's groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller, and has to date sold 650,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the aut... More