Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Illinois

The Lufe & Legend of “Machine Gun” Jack McGunn and the Chicago Beer Wars of the Roaring Twenties

Chicago Assassin

#hardcover A story that gained national notoriety in 2007 as a result of former FBI agent Lin DeVecchio’s sensational murder trial, at which Sandra Harmon testified, this is an unforgettable tale of violence, wealth, and sex, set in a world where a man’s word is both everything and nothing. #TrueCrime #Suspense #Mafia 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal

Bestselling author Sandra Harmon uses her inside access to the Mob, law enforcement, and jailed Mafioso Gregory Scarpa Jr. to tell an epic true story of crime and betrayal. The Scarpas were a Mafia dynasty led by Greg Scarpa Sr., so notorious for his addiction to violence and murder that he was nicknamed “The Grim Reaper.” His son, Gregory Jr., a promising young athlete, worshipped his ruthless and manipulative father, and slowly he was drawn into his father’s dark world. What no one but father and son knew was that for thirty years, starting in the 1960s, Scarpa Sr. was an informant, working intimately with FBI handlers. For decades, his connection to the FBI—including the much-publicized agent Lin DeVecchio—protected him, granting him a virtual license to kill. However, when faced with arrest in the late 1980s, Scarpa asked his son to leave his wife and children, and take the fall for his father. In 1995, after years in prison, Gregory Jr. was transferred to Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and re-indicted on superseding charges. There he was imprisoned alongside Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and made a deal with the government to get information from Yousef in exchange for leniency. A year later, he furnished the feds with detailed intelligence on what would eventually result in the September 11 attacks. But, incredibly, Gregory’s desperate warnings were unheeded, and he was sentenced to forty-years-to-life in isolation at the notorious ADMAX, the most secure federal prison in the country, in Florence, Colorado. There, he would supply the FBI with intelligence on Oklahoma City bomber and fellow prisoner Terry Nichols. Again, his contribution was ignored, and Gregory remains at ADMAX, where he believes he will one day be murdered. A story that gained national notoriety in 2007 as a result of former FBI agent Lin DeVecchio’s sensational murder trial, at which Sandra Harmon testified, this is an unforgettable tale of violence, wealth, and sex, set in a world where a man’s word is both everything and nothing.

Mafia Son

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#hardcover #fiction #thriller #mafia #organizedcrime #mob

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

Now living in close proximity to his ex-wife Susan, John Sutter is targeted by her dead lover's mafia son Anthony, who seeks revenge against his father's murderer and attempts to lure John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa crime family.

The Gate House

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#hardcover #truecrime #fbiagent #mafia #jackfalcone book has black mark on bottom (see pic) does not affect book and in excellent reading condition 

Kansas

An Undercover FBI Agent Takes down a Mafia Family

"Petey Chops wasn't kicking up. And if he didn't start soon, he was going to get whacked." So beginsMaking Jack Falcone,the extraordinary true story of an undercover FBI agent's years-long investigation of the Gambinos, which resulted in a string of arrests that crippled the organized crime family.But long before Joaquin "Jack" Garcia found himself wearing a wire with some of the Mafia's top capos, he was one of the FBI's unlikeliest recruits. A Cuban-born American, Jack graduated from Quantico standing six-foot-four and weighing 300 pounds -- not your typical G-man. Jack's stature soon proved an asset as the FBI looked to place agents undercover with drug smugglers, counterfeiters, and even killers. Jack became one of the few FBI agents dedicated solely to undercover work.Using a series of carefully created aliases, Jack insinuated himself in the criminal world, from the Badlands of Philadelphia, where he was a gregarious money launderer, to the streets of Miami, where an undercover Garcia moved stolen and illicit goods and brought down dirty cops. Jack jumped at the opportunity to infiltrate the shadowy world of La Cosa Nostra, but how would the Cuban-American convince wiseguys that he was one of their own, a Sicilian capable of "earning his button" -- getting made in the Mafia? For the first time, the FBI created a special "mob school" for Jack, teaching him how to eat, talk, andthinklike a wiseguy. And it wasn't long before the freshly minted Jack Falcone found himself under the wing of one of the Gambinos' old school capos, Greg DePalma. DePalma, who cared for an ailing John Gotti in prison, introduced Falcone to his world of shakedowns, beatings, and envelopes of cash, never suspecting that one of his trusted crew members was a federal agent.A page-turning account of the struggle between law enforcement and organized crime that will rank with such classic stories asDonnie Brasco, Serpico,andWiseguy, Making Jack Falconeis an unforgettable trip into America's underworld through the eyes of a highly decorated FBI veteran.

Making Jack Falcone

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Florida

From National Book Award winner Judy Blundell, the tale of a sixteen-year-old girl caught in a mix of love, mystery, Broadway glamour, and Mob retribution in 1950 New York.When Kit Corrigan arrives in New York City, she doesn't have much. She's fled from her family in Providence, Rhode Island, and she's broken off her tempestuous relationship with a boy named Billy, who's enlisted in the army. The city doesn't exactly welcome her with open arms. She gets a bit part as a chorus girl in a Broadway show, but she knows that's not going to last very long. She needs help--and then it comes, from an unexpected source.

Strings Attached

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#paperback #fiction #action #romance #mafia #1987

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Prizzi's Family

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#historical #historicalfiction #hardcover #botm #family #gmabookclub #thefamily #mafia #histfic 

Family

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

This is a behind-the-scenes look at how Francis Ford Coppola transformed a modest pulp novel into a financial and artistic triumph. There are production stills and in-depth accounts of the worldwide acclaim and financial success following the release of The Godfather. The study also details the production and release of The Godfather Part II and The Godfather Part III.

The Godfather Legacy

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#paperback #mafia #biography #crime #newyork 

New Jersey

The Improbable Rise and Fall of John Gotti and His Gang

The Dapper Don A cocky kid from the streets of East New York, he rose to become one of the most feared men in the nation. Establishing a power base through brilliant politicking and blood-chilling ruthlessness, at 45 he took control of America's richest, most powerful crime family following the gangland-style execution of his predecessor. Though the target of almost contionous FBI and police surveillance, he has spent little time in prison . . . and has never been convicted of racketeering, drug-trafficking or murder. Prize-winning journalists John Cummings and Ernest Volkman's shocking true account of the brutal and meteoric rise of John "Johhny Boy" Gotti from Brooklyn "bone-breaker" to lord of the Gambino Family -- a riveting exploration into the the bloody machinery of La Cosa Nostra operating on the dark side of the American dream.

Goombata

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A sexy Sunny Randall mystery with a missing teenager from a wealthy family and featuring Richie, her ex, Spike, her gay friend and her dog Rosie. #mystery, #boston, #sunnyrandall, #mafia #hardcover #fiction

Hardcover (under 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Sunny Randall, a female Boston private detective and former police officer, has been hired by a rich family to find their daughter, a job that involves her with the worlds of prostitution, organized crime, and high-level political corruption. 150,000 first printing.

Family Honor

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#sunnyrandall #mafia #boston #fiction #mystery #hardcover 

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California

Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia

"In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti." "He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family, the most powerful in the nation." "Today, Gotti is serving life in prison without parole. And as a direct consequence of Gravano's testimony, Cosa Nostra - the Mafia's true name - is in shambles." "In Underboss, based on dozens of hours of interviews with Gravano, much of it written in Sammy the Bull's own voice, we are ushered as never before into the uppermost secret inner sanctums of Cosa Nostra - an underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, deception, sometimes even honor, with the specter of violent death always poised in the wings." "Gravano's is a story about starting out on the street, about killing and being killed, revealing the truth behind a quarter-century of shocking headlines. It is also a tragic story of a wasted life, of unalterable choices and the web of lies, weakness, and treachery that underlie the so-called Honored Society."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Underboss

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#relationships #family #booktomovie #paperback #fiction #moviecover #thefamily #internationalbestseller #mafia #witnessprotection

Michigan

a novel

The family

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Dust jacket shows where. Book is in fair condition. P39jnvt￼#hardcover #hardcover #mob #mafia

Massachusetts

An Autobiography

Zeffirelli

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#paperback #romance #booktok #smut #erotic #erotica #arrangedmarrige #mafia #mob 

Sold To The Russian

#hardcover #nonfiction #autobiography #biography #gravano #mafia #thebull #mob

The Mafia, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, and Me!

The daughter of a confessed mafia hitman-turned-state's-evidence struggles to reconcile the image of her elusive yet loving father with that of a murdering Mafioso, and shares how she was able to forge a life after the truth came out. 100,000 first printing.

Mob Daughter

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#nonfiction #politicalscience #polysci #truecrime #crime #hardcover #MichaelCannell #Mafia #cannell #murderinc        The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history.

In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Commission. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel―but before he could testify, his shattered body was discovered on a rooftop outside his heavily-guarded hotel room. Was it a botched escape, or punishment for betraying the loyalty of the country’s most powerful mobsters?

Michael Cannell's A Brotherhood Betrayed traces the history of Murder, Inc. through Reles’ rise from street punk to murder chieftain to stool pigeon, ending with his fateful death on a Coney Island rooftop. It resurrects a time when crime became organized crime: a world of money and power, depravity and corruption, street corner ambushes and elaborately choreographed hits by wise-cracking foot soldiers with names like Buggsy Goldstein and Tick Tock Tannenbaum.

For a brief moment before World War II erupted, America fixated on the delicate balance of trust and betrayal on the Brooklyn streets. This is the story of the one man who tipped the balance.


The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.

A Brotherhood Betrayed

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Mississippi

Scandalous Prince

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Tennessee

In an era that witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger was the most famous and flamboyant of them all. Reports on the man and his misdeeds--spiced with accounts of his swashbuckling bravado and cool daring--provided an America worn down by the Great Depression with a salacious mix of sex and violence that proved irresistible.
In Dillinger's Wild Ride, Elliott J. Gorn provides a riveting account of the year between 1933 and 1934, when the Dillinger gang pulled over a dozen bank jobs, and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. A dozen men--police, FBI agents, gangsters, and civilians--lost their lives in the rampage, and American newspapers breathlessly followed every shooting and jail-break. As Dillinger's wild year unfolded, the tale grew larger and larger in newspapers and newsreels, and even today, Dillinger is the subject of pulp literature, serious poetry and fiction, and films, including a new movie starring Johnny Depp. What is the power of his story? Why has it lingered so long? Who was John Dillinger? Gorn illuminates the significance of Dillinger's tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy, arguing that he represented an American fascination with primitive freedom against social convention. Dillinger's story has much to tell us about our enduring fascination with outlaws, crime and
violence, about the complexity of our transition from rural to urban life, and about the transformation of America during the Great Depression.
Dillinger's Wild Ride is a compulsively readable story with an unforgettable protagonist.


Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One

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The double Emmy-winning US drama imported by Channel 4 is by turns violent and funny as it follows the trials and tribulations of Mob boss Tony Soprano and his waste management crew. This companion to the series contains indepth articles about the making of the show and the second season, which is due to be shown on Channel 4 later on in 2000. It also contains cast biographies and illustrations from the series.

The New York Times on the Sopranos

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#hardcover #suspense #murder #thriller #mafia #detective 

Kentucky

He came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he's a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sleeps with dozens of weapons. Ten years ago it was different. Then, he was the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man who pulled a slaughter job on some double-crossing clients and started a mob war. Ever since, there's been a price on his head. Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him . . . until the Mafia, the cops, the FBI, and the damn Justice Department want his hide . . . until he's locked into a cross-country odyssey of fear and death that could tear his world to pieces . . . "Exciting . . . Suspenseful . . . A thriller's job is to make you turn the pages until the story's done and your eyes hurt and the clock says 3 a.m. . . . I wouldn't try to grab this one away from somebody only half-way through. No telling what might happen." -- Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

Sleeping Dogs

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#paperback #history #truecrime #mob #mafia #pagetoscreen 

Maryland

Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles

Describes how the Los Angeles Police Department formed an eight-man special unit to go after LA's gangsters in 1946, and relates the efforts of two of the squad--Jack O'Mara and Jerry Wooters--to take down mob boss Mickey Cohen.

Gangster Squad

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CONTRACT ON AMERICA

#paperback #mafia #mob #frankdimatteo #michaelbenson #lordhighexecutioner #albertanastasia #truecrime

Indiana

The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia

From acclaimed true-crime author Michael Benson and real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most infamous mafia boss of all time- Albert Anastasia, the man whose name is synonymous with Murder, Inc., and whose actions helped create the American Mafia.

The blood-soaked saga of the Murder, Inc. legend who helped create the modern American Mafia--one body at a time--featuring shocking eyewitness accounts...

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barbershop in New York City. What happened in the years in between--and why every crime family had reason to want him dead--is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the man who became one of the most powerful and homicidal crime bosses of the twentieth century from Mafia insider Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia's bloody rise from fresh-off-the-boat immigrant to founder of the notorious killer's club Murder, Inc.--featuring never-before-told accounts from those who feared him most...

They called him "The One Man Army." "Mad Hatter." "Lord High Executioner." Albert Anastasia came to America mean and became a prolific killer. His merciless assassination of Mafia godfather Vincent Mangano is recounted here in chilling first-hand detail. He set the record- the first man in the history of American justice to be charged with four separate murders--and walk free after each one. But in the end, he was the last obstacle in rival Mafia hoodlum Vito Genovese's dream of becoming the boss of bosses--and paid the ultimate price...

Richard J. Schmelter

Chicago Assassin

Sandra Harmon

Mafia Son

Nelson DeMille

The Gate House

Joaquin Garcia; Michael Graubart Levin (As told to)

Making Jack Falcone

Judy Blundell

Strings Attached

Richard Condon

Prizzi's Family

Naomi Krupitsky

Family

Harlan Lebo

The Godfather Legacy

John Cummings; Ernest Volkman

Goombata

Robert B. Parker

Family Honor

Robert Parker

Family Honor

Peter Maas

Underboss

Tonino Benacquista, Emily Read

The family

Franco Zeffirelli

Zeffirelli

Isabella Laase

Sold To The Russian

Karen Gravano; Lisa Pulitzer

Mob Daughter

Michael Cannell

A Brotherhood Betrayed

Rachel Van Dyken

Scandalous Prince

Elliott J. Gorn

Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One

New York Times Staff; Stephen Holden (Introduction by)

The New York Times on the Sopranos

Thomas Perry

Sleeping Dogs

Paul Lieberman

Gangster Squad

DAVIDE. SCHEIM

CONTRACT ON AMERICA

Frank Dimatteo; Michael Benson

Lord High Executioner