Breaking the Mob

Breaking the Mob
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 454
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ISBN-10 : 9780595000500
ISBN-13 : 0595000509
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Breaking the Mob by : Francis Friel

Between 1981 and 1989, Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo was boss of one of the most violent gangs in the history of organized crime, the Philadelphia-Atlantic City mob. Friel describes Scarfo's rise to power, his bloody feud with his arch rival, and the rise and fall of Scarfo's "Young Executioners," who used the streets of Philadelphia as their murder playground. Friel also tells of his efforts to save an innocent man convicted of two mob murders from the electric air.

Breaking the Mob

Breaking the Mob
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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0070223556
ISBN-13 : 9780070223554
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Breaking the Mob by : Frank Friel

Traces the rise of the Scarfo crime family in the Philadelphia-Atlantic City area, and describes the special task force that was set up in response

Takedown

Takedown
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Publisher : Putnam Adult
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015055807799
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Takedown by : Rick Cowan

A NYPD detective describes his work as an undercover cop, in which role he infltrated a lethal mob cartel to uncover evidence of a conspiracy among the various mob families to extort billions of dollars from the nation's most influential corporations.

Killing the Mob

Killing the Mob
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781250273666
ISBN-13 : 1250273668
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Killing the Mob by : Bill O'Reilly

Instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob. Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the “Five Families,” the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. O’Reilly and Dugard turn these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades into a read that rivals the most riveting crime novel. With Killing the Mob, their hit series is primed for its greatest success yet.

Son of the Mob

Son of the Mob
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Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781423141259
ISBN-13 : 1423141253
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Son of the Mob by : Gordon Korman

Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids-his father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization. Needless to say, while Vince's family's connections can be handy for certain things (like when teachers are afraid to give him a bad grade), they can put a serious crimp in his dating life. How is he supposed to explain to a girl what his father does for a living? But when Vince meets a girl who finally seems to be worth the trouble, her family turns out to be the biggest problem of all. Because her father is an FBI agent-the one who wants to put his father away for good.

Deal with the Devil

Deal with the Devil
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9780062248893
ISBN-13 : 0062248898
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Deal with the Devil by : Peter Lance

In Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a Mafia capo who “stopped counting” after fifty murders, while secretly betraying the Colombo crime family as a Top Echelon FBI informant. Lance traces Scarpa’s shadowy relationship with the FBI all the way back to 1960, when his debriefings went straight to J. Edgar Hoover. In forty-two years of murder and racketeering, Scarpa served only thirty days in jail thanks to his secret relationship with the Feds. This is the untold story that will rewrite Mafia history as we know it —a page-turning work of journalism that reads like a Scorsese film. Deal with the Devil includes more than 130 illustrations, crime scene photos, and never-before-seen FBI documents.

The Good Guys

The Good Guys
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 0671010077
ISBN-13 : 9780671010072
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Good Guys by : Jules Bonavolonta

As gripping as fiction, yet all incredibly true, this book is the story of how FBI Special Agent Bonavolonta brought down the most powerful Mafia families in New York--and forever revolutionized the investigative procedures of the FBI. Includes an eight-page photo insert.

Mobfather

Mobfather
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0940159996
ISBN-13 : 9780940159990
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Mobfather by : George Anastasia

Surviving the Mob

Surviving the Mob
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Publisher : Huntington Press Inc
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781935396383
ISBN-13 : 1935396382
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Surviving the Mob by : Dennis N. Griffin

What do you do when the law wants you behind bars and the New York crime families want you buried? Surviving the Mob is a cautionary tale of the harsh reality of a criminal, inmate, fugitive, and witness who -- so far -- has lived to tell the tale.

Mafia Summit

Mafia Summit
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9781250021106
ISBN-13 : 1250021103
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Mafia Summit by : Gil Reavill

The true story of how a small-town lawman in upstate New York busted a Cosa Nostra conference in 1957, exposing the Mafia to America. In a small village in upstate New York, mob bosses from all over the country—Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Cuba boss Santo Trafficante, and future Gambino boss Paul Castellano—were nabbed by Sergeant Edgar D. Croswell as they gathered to sort out a bloody war of succession. For years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had adamantly denied the existence of the Mafia, but young Robert Kennedy immediately recognized the shattering importance of the Apalachin summit. As attorney general when his brother JFK became president, Bobby embarked on a campaign to break the spine of the mob, engaging in a furious turf battle with the powerful Hoover. Detailing mob killings, the early days of the heroin trade, and the crusade to loosen the hold of organized crime, this momentous story will captivate fans of Gus Russo and Luc Sante. Reavill scintillatingly recounts the beginning of the end for the Mafia in America and how it began with a good man in the right place at the right time. “The best, and best-written, true-crime story I’ve ever read. It’s as suspenseful, detailed, racy, and knowing as a novel by Hammett or Chandler.” —Howard Frank Mosher, award-winning author of North Country “A close investigation into the crime bosses’ upstate New York summit and its grisly aftermath, Reavill’s book accurately recreates one of the golden eras of American organized crime.” —Publishers Weekly