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Nov 22, 2017 · First, pin down everything you can remember about the book, plot, character names, time period in which the book may have been published, genre, etc. All these details are clues in identifying the title and author of the book.
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Aug 8, 2017 · Get a crash course in the Mafia with this reading list of true and fictional exploits of gangsters from Donnie Brasco to Vito Corleone.
Nov 29, 2017 · “What are the best books about The Mafia & Organized Crime?” We looked at 207 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question! Learn more about the Mafia and Organized Crime with our list of the best nonfiction & fiction books on the subject.
- Books About the Mob
- True Crime-Organized Crime, Mafia
- Five Families
- The Real Lucky Luciano
- Mr. Capone: The Real Story of Al Capone
- Takedown: The Fall of The Last Mafia Empire
- The Westies: Inside New York’s Irish Mob
- The Man to See
- The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo
- The Outfit
- Accardo: The Genuine Godfather
- Joseph Bonanno – A Man of Honor
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 still led by the Mafia’s most potent and largest ...
For the first twenty-five years of his career,Lucky Luciano was a vicious mobster who became the king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five, he was a fake, his reputation maintained by government agents. Boardwalk Gangster follows him from his early days as a hit man to his sex and narcotics empires, exposing the truth about what he ...
All I ever did was to sell beer and whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular. Why, the very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me. Some of the leading judges use the stuff. When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake...
The bestselling true story of a young NYPD detective’s life-or-death undercover odyssey that led to the biggest mob takedown in New York City history.
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell’s Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City’s West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime, excelling in extortion, number...
Legendary attorney Edward Bennet Williams was arguably the best trial lawyer ever to practice. Now, for the first time, best-selling author Evan Thomas takes us into the courtrooms of William’s greatest performances as he defends “Godfather” Frank Costello, Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Sinatra, The Washington Post, and others, as well as behind the scenes wh...
The Mad Ones chronicles the rise and fall of the Gallo brothers, a trio of reckless young gangsters whose revolution against New York City’s Mafia was inspired by Crazy Joe Gallo’s forays into Greenwich Village counter-culture. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the Gallos’ war against the powerful Cosa Nostra, an epic crime saga th...
The never-before-told story of the great Chicago crime family called The Outfit. It is a common misperception that all the true-life organized crime stories have been written. Yet perhaps the most compelling gangster tale is one that has been, until now, too well-hidden. This is the story of the Outfit: the secretive organized crime cartel that beg...
For forty years Tony Accardo was America’s most dangerous criminal. He cut his teeth on the Chicago mob wars of Capone and Elliot Ness. He got his nickname “Joe Batters” for killing two men with a baseball bat. As the bodies piled up, Capone’s youngest capo murdered and schemed his way to the top. William Roemer was the first FBI agent to face Tony...
Joe Bonanno-likely a model for Don Corleone in the blockbuster movie The Godfather-takes readers inside the world of the real Mafia. He reveals the inner workings of New York’s Five Families-Bonanno, Gambino, Profaci, Lucchese, and Genovese-and uncovers how the Mafia not only dominated local businesses, but also influenced national politics. A fasc...
Like Mafia and Organized Crime Novels? Or feel nostalgic about The Godfather and other mob stories? Well, what comes next is our hand-picked list of top.
100 Best Mafia Books of All Time. We've researched and ranked the best mafia books in the world, based on recommendations from world experts, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. Learn more. Featuring recommendations from Benjamin Spall, Albert Wenger, Emma Watson, and 20 other experts. 1.
The 20 best mafia biography books recommended by Booklist, Gay Talese, My Pal Andy, Jeremy Vine, Brent Hatley, Nick Pileggi and others.
