(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his inimitable New York voice, Breslin, "the city's steadiest and most accurate chronicler" (Tom Robbins, Village Voice), gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the mafia--characters like Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Gaspipe Casso (named for his weapon of choice), Thomas "Three-Finger Brown" Lucchese, and Jimmy "The Clam" Eppolito, interwoven with the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, the star witness...
2) Deal with the devil : the FBI's secret thirty-year relationship with a mafia killer / Peter Lance
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of the FBI scandal involving organized crime agent R. Lindley DeVecchio, relating how he shared information with Mafia contacts that led to three murders, and describes the Justice Department's attempt to cover up his crime.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
No one can tell the true story of the Mafia in America better than Bill Bonanno. He was there. He lived it.
Bill Bonanno was born into a world of respect, tradition, and honor. The son of legendary mafioso Joe Bonanno, Bill was a "made" member of the Mafia by the time he was in his early twenties. He was rumored to be the model for The Godfather's Michael Corleone and was the subject of Gay Talese's best-selling Honor Thy Father.
Now retired, Bill...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime.
Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s. Based on exhaustive research of archives and secret files obtained...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successfully arresting Dominic "The Electrician" Cavello, an influential mafia boss, in an operation that leaves two fellow agents dead, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante struggles with internal corruption that could prevent the man's conviction, teaming up with a juror, single mother Andie Echeverra, to take justice into their own hands.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Through profiles of the most colorful and powerful crime bosses, gang members, corrupt cops, and numerous mob associates as well as pivotal events in the history of organized crime, Big Apple Gangsters reveals just how influential the mob has been in controlling large numbers of business not just in New York, but also in other cities"-- Provided by publisher.
14) The gate house
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After John Sutter’s aristocratic wife killed her Mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast of Long Island–that stretch of land that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America–to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up residence in the...
15) The family
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
Sofia is a free spirit, loud and untamed. Antonia is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends since birth, they share everything from the brick wall that divides their apartments to the shadow cast by their fathers' unspoken community: the Family. Sunday...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The son of the head of the Gambino crime family's squad of killers and thieves describes coming of age in the world of organized crime, the murder of his father when he was seventeen, and his determination to escape his father's fate.
17) Mafiya
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Former prostitute Agnes Lynn, aided by her lover, ex-cop Jack Russo, battles the Russian Mafiya as she seeks vengeance for the brutal murder of her friend Rachel Wilson.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, the head of a mob family has granted total access to a journalist--the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. Born into a Mafia family, Casso early proved his talent for "earning"--concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and import vast quantities...
20) The defence
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren't that different. It's been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie's back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter, Amy. Eddie only has forty-eight hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial - and...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request