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Author
Series
Borgata trilogy ; 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A former mafia associate and heist expert who spent eight years in prison for not incriminating his fellow Gambino family members presents the history of the mafia's first 100 years, from Sicily in the 1860s to America in the 1960s."--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Vincent Louis Gigante, the Genovese Family crime overlord who ruled a sprawling criminal empire for a quarter century with an iron--and deadly--fist. Vinnie "Chin" Gigante displayed signs of insanity that stunned the public, stymied the police and the FBI, and secured his power for decades. Was he really crazy? Or crazy like a fox?"--Provided by Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley & Sons Canada
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The definitive book about the explosive Rizzuto crime family.
On May 5, 1981, three rebellious members of New York's Bonanno crime family were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club. One of the gunmen was Vito Rizzuto, a man who would rise to the top of the underworld in Canada and then expand his reign across continents to become a global super boss.
The Sixth Family, now revised and updated, reveals the hidden history of the rise of the Rizzuto...
89) American cousins
Series
Publisher
American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two men in an American mob hide at their cousin Roberto's bar in Glasgow and realize he's not as tough as they hoped. When they run off a debt collector for Roberto, he finds they aren't as innocent as they pretend to be.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso--from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When confidence man Beano X. Bates is caught cheating at cards, New Jersey Mafia boss Joe "Dancer" Rina beats him so badly that he nearly dies. Then Beano's cousin Carol is brutally murdered just before she was to testify against Rina. In revenge Beano teams up with a woman prosecutor -- she is also out to get Joe -- and together they play a con game that will set other gangsters against Rina and put him away. The unlikely pair trek from Atlantic...
95) Vengeance is mine: Jimmy "the Weasel" Fratianno tells how he brought the kiss of death to the Mafia
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
97) Blood covenant
Author
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The story of the 'Mafia Prince' who publicly quit the mob and lived"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The only daughter of the gangster legend Meyer Lansky opens up about her life as a wild child of the 1950s, her heartbreak and tragedy --including the insanity of her mother and the crippling handicap of her eldest brother--and her father's unexpected tenderness.
