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The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.
Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But, after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (336 pages)
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English
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The darkest depths of the organized underworld, from mobsters in the U.S. to Hells Angels in Germany to child armies in Africa Historically, those outside the law have always tended to band together in pursuit of riches and power, eventually spawning the murky, brutal world of today's organized crime discussed here. This book traces the origins of the archetypical, modern gangster to 1920s America, when Prohibition turned street-corner hoodlums into...
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University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (472 pages)
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English
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Continuing on from the bestselling Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers opens in 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of "The Joke', while Glen Hallahan, retired from the force, begins to show a keen interest in the emerging illicit drug trade. Meanwhile, ex-cop and "Bagman'...
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Barricade Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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English
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"In June 2007, the FBI informed the NBA that one of its referees, Tim Donaghy, was the subject of a probe into illegal gambling. Within months, the public knew the broad outlines of a scheme involving Donaghy betting on games he officiated with a co-conspirator, longtime Donaghy acquaintance and professional gambler Jimmy Baba Battista. They were joined in the scandal by a mutual childhood friend, Tommy Martino. By November 2008, each man had pleaded...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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Carmine and Ralph Palizzano were Italian-Americans who were born in the United States. Both of them served in the U.S. Army during World War II. My e-book looks at their criminal connections and the crimes they committed, primarily in the late 1950s. Both were part of a narcotics case in 1957 in which Mafia Don Vito Genovese was the primary defendant. The Polizzanos received drugs from Genovese and distributed them throughout America via couriers...
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Barricade Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource (263 pages)
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English
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"The inspiration for Fox TV's drama series, "Mob Doctor," Il Dottore is the riveting true story of a Jewish kid from the Bronx who became a Mafia insider and physician to top NY Mafia dons such as John Gotti, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, and Joe Bonanno. As a result, the doctor led a double life: well respected surgeon and socialite by day, and "Il Dottore," gambler and sex addict, by night. Welcomed into an exciting and glamorous underworld which...
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Concierge Publishing Services
Pub. Date
2010
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1 online resource (263 p.)
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"What is so captivating about Vegas? Is it how the skim worked and how millions of dollars vanished uncounted? Ever hear about the bad guys that rigged the gin rummy games at the Friars Club and took a bunch of famous people to the cleaners? Steve Fischer, an avid researcher and collector, bring us Vegas like you've never seen, tales you've never heard--until now."--
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Concierge Publishing Services
Pub. Date
2010
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1 online resource (270 p.)
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English
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"A haunting triple murder... the inside story of the investigation. The chilling trail of evidence from a remote area where three bodies are set on fire leads detectives across the country chasing down witnesses and conspirators in a search for cold-blooded killers. This case has it all: murder, cash, a blood-soaked crime scene, cars, jewelry, and hundreds of pounds of illegal dope."--
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2010
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1 online resource (424 p.)
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"As the only member of the Transylvania Book Heist to previously decline all interviews, Chas Allen finally reveals the whole story. The Thrilling True Story follows Allen as he struggles to balance a party lifestyle on the campus of the University of Kentucky, the finances of his family, a dangerous high stakes game with an underground casino, and a growing desperation to turn to crime."--
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Allen and Unwin
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (368 pages)
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English
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The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest, and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders in Australia since the mid-1970s, and many more before that. Mafia families in Australia report directly to bosses in...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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Albert Anastasia headed up Murder Inc. a feared Mafia group that controlled the Brooklyn dockyards, segments of the fashion industry, and was notorious for administering gangland justice. On the morning of October 25, 1957 Anastasia was reclining in a barber's chair at the exclusive Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City's midtown Manhattan district. Two masked gunmen entered the barber shop with gloves on their hands and pumped five bullets into the...
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Jane Gilgun
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 online resource
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English
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Friendly, affable Bobby looks like a younger version of Richard Gere, but with even more charm. You'd love to have him for a next door neighbor until he tells you stories of his life as a drug addict. In this article, he talks about robbing a pharmacy at gunpoint to get the drug OxyContin, which is a painkilling opoid. Young men like Bobby are robbing drug stores throughout the United States to get this drug. Bobby also hijacked a van, crashed during...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Natale Evola became boss of the Bonanno crime family in 1970 and held this position until his death in August 1973. Evola had been a Genovese family operative in the late 1950s, attending the notorious Apalachin convention in upstate New York in November 1957. He was also a lynch pin of narcotics trafficking in the United States. He was arrested along with Vito Genovese and many others after a 1958 heroin bust in Manhattan.. Narcotics agents targeted...
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Empowerment LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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IMAGINE you discover that your wife was not only in love with another man, but this man was her PIMP, and she was his MADAM and PROSTITUTE.IMAGINE you learn that your wife married you for the sole purpose of stealing your assets, that to her, you were JUST ANOTHER TRICK, one who instead of paying "up front" was expected to pay at the end, when she divorced you. IMAGINE you learned that your beloved wife was running her segment of a multi-state, multi-million...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2017.
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1 online resource
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English
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Harold Giles Hoffman was elected governor of New Jersey in 1935. A gregarious, popular politician he was a former assistant chemist and banker. His supporters touted him as a prospective Republican Presidential candidate for the upcoming 1936 election. Unbeknownst to his backers, however, Hoffman had used stolen bank funds to further his political career. He continued moving money he had taken illegally throughout his term as governor. Many of his...
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Nick Mason novels volume 1
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English
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"Nick Mason is out of prison. After five years inside, he has just been given the one thing a man facing 25-to-life never gets, a second chance. But it comes at a terrible price. Nick Mason is out of prison, but he's not free. Whenever his cell phone rings, day or night, he must answer it and follow whatever order he is given. It's the deal he made with Darius Cole, a criminal kingpin serving a double-life term who still runs an empire from his prison...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Jimmy Hoffa, formerly Teamsters Union President, disappeared suddenly without a trace in the summer of 1975. My e-book looks at the circumstances of this event and points an accusing finger at two men, one of them a mobster who was based in Detroit, Michigan. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that Hoffa was killed by men who were flown in from outside Michigan to eliminate Hoffa. One of the men who was instrumental in Hoffa's disappearance/demise...
20) All Fall Down
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University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (584 pages)
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English
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Continuing on from the bestselling true crime stories Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers, All Fall Down follows Terry Lewis as he becomes police commissioner and the era of corruption at the highest levels of the police and government goes on. As the Queensland police become more connected with their corrupt colleagues in Sydney, the era of heavy drugs and crime also begins. Tony Murphy and Glen Hallahan, two of the original "crooked kings,"...
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