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Author
Series
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
©1995
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The phrase "organized crime" calls to mind images from The Godfather, yet organized crime today takes on far more varied forms and guises. This volume explores the pervasiveness of organized crime, examines its history and chronology from La Cosa Nostra to Colombian drug cartels and Jamaican posses, and covers nontraditional organizations such as the Hell's Angels and the Pagans.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxxii, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The first book to document organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal cleanup effort
Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the situation for most of the twentieth century. Since 1975, however, the FBI, Department of Justice, and the federal judiciary have relentlessly...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 426
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Corruption is one of the biggest global issues, ahead of extreme poverty, unemployment, the rising cost of food and energy, climate change, and terrorism. It is thought to be one of the principal causes of poverty around the globe. Its significance in the contemporary world cannot be undervalued. In this Very Short Introduction, Leslie Holmes looks the history of corruption across the millennia and considers why the international community has only...
Author
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (282 pages) : map
Language
English
Description
While helping a friend set up a Kahului-based dive shop, lawyer Storm Kayama investigates a bombing and suicide tied to her friend's business and uncovers a human-trafficking ring controlled by a powerful and highly secretive Japanese organized crime ring known as Yakuza.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
After the apparent suicide of a famous movie producer, his co-producer hires Cape Weathers to find out the truth about his death. With the help of his friend Sally, an assassin raised by the Triads, Cape uncovers a connection between the producer's death and the drug war between the tong gangs of Chinatown and the Russian mob.
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (136 pages).
Language
English
Description
Gina Gallo is a mob goddaughter who doesn't want to be one. She's left her loopy family behind to elope with Pete to Vegas. Except that eloping may be a mortal sin in an Italian family. Between that and some weird deliveries and suitors, Gina's nerves are frayed. Vegas is full of great acts, but one impersonation is real: Gina has a crime-committing double whose activities are making Gina front-page news. Gina has to track down this fiendish fraud...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
English language edition.
Physical Desc
x, 362 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The definitive history of the drug cartels, Narcoland takes readers to the front lines of the "war on drugs," which has so far cost more than 60,000 lives in just six years. Hernández explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. At every turn, Hernández names names - not just the narcos, but also the politicians, functionaries, judges and entrepreneurs...
16) Gentlemen bootleggers: the true story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a small town in cahoots
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"During Prohibition, while Al Capone was rising to worldwide prominence as Public Enemy Number One, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa--population just 418--were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own. Led by Joe Irlbeck, the whip-smart and gregarious son of a Bavarian immigrant, the outfit of farmers, small merchants, and even the church Monsignor worked together to create a whiskey so excellent it was ordered by name: Templeton Rye. Gentlemen...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xlv, 748 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Blood Brotherhoods John Dickie examines the myths surrounding the three largest and most violent mafia groups in Italy--the Camorra, Cosa Nostra, and 'ndrangheta--divulging the secrets, histories and documents of the real stories behind the Honored Society's most brutal crimes. Each of these brotherhoods has its own methods, its own dark rituals, its own style of ferocity and corruption. Yet violence is only the beginning. The mafias have corrupted...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 765 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced violent, unreliable leaders and recruits. A twenty-year assault against the five families in particular blossomed...
19) Illusive
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a vaccine accidentally creates superpowers in a small percentage of the population, seventeen-year-old Ciere, an illusionist, teams up with a group of fellow high-class, super-powered thieves to steal the vaccine's formula while staying one step ahead of mobsters and deadly government agents"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxx, 375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Using previously untapped Secret Service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, Dash presents the gripping story of the birth of the Italian Mafia in America, and brings to life the remarkable villains and unusual heroes of the Mafia's early years.
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