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Jun 17, 2021 · A big roundup of the best mafia books across several genres, including young adult and romance, fiction and nonfiction.
- Neha Patel
- Bound by Honor (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #1) Cora Reilly (Goodreads Author)
- Ruthless People (Ruthless People, #1) J.J. McAvoy.
- Bound by Duty (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles, #2) Cora Reilly (Goodreads Author)
- Monster in His Eyes (Monster in His Eyes, #1) J.M. Darhower (Goodreads Author)
Sep 15, 2024 · This well-researched mafia bibliography includes out-of-print titles and generally contains the most popular, famous, or otherwise notable books - fiction or non-fiction - about the mafia and crime syndicates.
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Well, what comes next is our hand-picked list of top 10 modern mafia novels from American and International authors. We hope you enjoy this selection. For more information on each book, you can click on the image for each title to go to Amazon page for the book. The Godfather: More than thirty years ago, a classic was born.
- 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...
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.
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Dec 14, 2014 · Uncover the dark allure of the underworld with these critically acclaimed mafia books, selected for their standing in numerous literary round-ups. Recommendations from 31 articles , Garry Kasparov, Devon Sawa, Ben Carlson and 5 others .
