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Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"-concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities of drugs into New York-fueled his unstoppable rise up the ladder of organized crime. A mafioso responsible for at least fifty murders, Casso lived large, with a beautiful wife and money to burn. When the law finally...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story.
New York Sun reporter Malcolm "Mike" Johnson was sent to cover the murder of a West Side boss stevedore and discovered a "waterfront jungle, set against a background of New York's magnificent skyscrapers"...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Peter Maas dramatically reveals the shocking story of Salvatore Gravano-one of the most powerful leaders of modern organized crime. Underboss vividly portrays "Sammy's" disturbing rise in the Mafia from his first wary contact as a child with mobsters, to his phenomenal promotion to second-in-command of the much feared Gambino crime family. In his southwestern Brooklyn neighborhood, Sammy's father taught him to avoid certain men and never question...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Pulitzer Prize-winner's account of the heist that inspired Goodfellas reveals the rest of the story that couldn't be told—until now (Publisher Weekly).
One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of mafia legend—and a decades-long federal investigation. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this unsolved...
One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of mafia legend—and a decades-long federal investigation. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this unsolved...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This full account brings readers behind the heist memorialized in Goodfellas, a crime that has baffled law enforcement for decades. From Henry Hill himself, The Lufthansa Heist is the last book he worked on before his 2012 death. On December 11, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on America's social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nation's most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafia's most potent and largest borgatas: New York's Five Families." "Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New York's...
10) The Pierre Hotel affair: how eight gentleman thieves orchestrated the largest jewel heist in history
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Chronicles the true story of the largest jewel theft in history by highly skilled thieves who orchestrated an elaborate plot to rob New York's Pierre Hotel with the blessing and assistance of the Lucchese crime family."--
"The startling and sensational true story of the most famous unsolved heist in American history: the theft of $28 million in jewels from the Pierre Hotel. New York City, 1972: Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly...
