Notorious New Jersey: 100 True Tales of Murders and Mobsters, Scandals and Scoundrels
ISBN: 9780813541778 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Notorious New Jersey is the definitive guide to murder, mayhem, the mob, and corruption in the Garden State. With tabloid punch, Jon Blackwell tells riveting accounts of Alexander Hamilton falling mortally wounded on the dueling grounds of Weehawken; Dutch Schultz getting pumped full of lead in the men's room of the Palace Chop House in Newark; and a gang of Islamic terrorists in Jersey City mixing the witch's brew of explosives that became the first bomb to rock the World Trade Center. Along with these dramatic stories are tales of lesser-known oddities, such as the nineteenth-century...
Notorious New Jersey is the definitive guide to murder, mayhem, the mob, and corruption in the Garden State. With tabloid punch, Jon Blackwell ...
|
|
cena:
141,28 zł |
Guns and Garlic: Myths and Realities of Organized Crime
ISBN: 9780911198386 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the appearance of Homer's study, it is no longer possible to base any serious work about organized crime on the superficial debate over whether or not this set of activities is dominated by one or more particular ethnic groups, writes political scientist Michael A. Weinstein in his introduction. Homer removes the study of organized crime from the realm of sensationalism and ethnic chauvinism, and places it in the context of contemporary American social structure. He reviews prevalent myths and hypotheses about organized crime and critically analyzes them in the framework of contemporary...
With the appearance of Homer's study, it is no longer possible to base any serious work about organized crime on the superficial debate over whether o...
|
|
cena:
141,91 zł |
Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob--The Mafia's Most Violent Family
ISBN: 9780940159860 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
91,73 zł |
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
ISBN: 9781403970428 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have dared to tread.In this gripping history of the Sicilian mafia, John Dickie uses startling new research to reveal the inner workings of this secret society with a murderous record. He explains how the mafia began, how it responds to threats and challenges, and introduces us to the real-life characters that inspired the American imagination... Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic accou... |
|
cena:
108,61 zł |
The Brutal Seas: Organised Crime at Work
ISBN: 9781425987107 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even as you read this book, mariners somewhere are being attacked by armed pirates, their faces masked and the weapons deadly. Organized crime has taken over where Blackbeard left off. Piracy today is just as brutal, perhaps even more so. Crew-members may be murdered, tortured, seized as hostages or simply dumped overboard to sink or swim. To the big-time gangsters behind much of the crime, life is cheap and must not stand in the way of profit. Attacking and stealing tankers or other cargo is a multi-billion industry. International law enforcement has yet to show sufficient concerted will to...
Even as you read this book, mariners somewhere are being attacked by armed pirates, their faces masked and the weapons deadly. Organized crime has tak...
|
|
cena:
92,00 zł |
After Capone: The Life and World of Chicago Mob Boss Frank the Enforcer Nitti
ISBN: 9781581824544 / Angielski / Twarda / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known as the Enforcer"" in the Capone Gang, Nitti has been glamorized in movies. This book gives a warts and all portrayal of the gangster.""
Known as the Enforcer"" in the Capone Gang, Nitti has been glamorized in movies. This book gives a warts and all portrayal of the gangster.""
|
|
cena:
171,30 zł |
The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangsters and Outlaw Era: 1920-1940
ISBN: 9781581825060 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete Public Enemy Almanac"" provides a reliable source of information about the violent and lawless era of the twenties and thirties.""
Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Com...
|
|
cena:
150,23 zł |
King of the Sunset Strip: Hangin' with Mickey Cohen and the Hollywood Mob
ISBN: 9781581825077 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who would have thought that an acting career that began as a teenage star in the Annette"" series on the ""The Mickey Mouse Club,"" Walt Disney's ""Zorro,"" ""The Roy Rogers Show,"" and ""That's My Mom"" would lead to the role of confidante and assistant to Southern California crime-boss Mickey Cohen? ""King of the Sunset Strip"" is a pistol-to-the-side-of-your-head Hollywood story. Beginning with the parties, boozing, and sex and the ""good-time"" macho whoring and gambling of the mob, the story covers the action in Sunset Boulevard penthouses, Beverly Hills mansions, Brentwood estates, and...
Who would have thought that an acting career that began as a teenage star in the Annette"" series on the ""The Mickey Mouse Club,"" Walt Disney's ""Zo...
|
|
cena:
121,15 zł |
The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangsters and Outlaw Era: 1920-1940
ISBN: 9781581825244 / Angielski / Twarda / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Complete Public Enemy Almanac"" provides a reliable source of information about the violent and lawless era of the twenties and thirties.""
Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The Com...
|
|
cena:
237,99 zł |
Egan's Rats: The Untold Story of the Prohibition-Era Gang That Ruled St. Louis
ISBN: 9781581825756 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Led by two childhood pals, Thomas Snake"" Kinney and Tom Egan, the Egan's Rats emerged from St. Louis's Irish slums. They learned their trade the old-fashioned way, via robberies, brawls, burglaries, and shootings. When Kinney ran on the Democratic ticket in the third ward, his friends were at the polls to ensure he got enough votes. For nearly ten years the gang cut a large swath in St. Louis, instilling fear wherever it went. With Snake Kinney, a Missouri state senator and Tom Egan, St. Louis's most dangerous gangster, the gang boasted nearly 400 members. Nearly everyone who lived in St....
Led by two childhood pals, Thomas Snake"" Kinney and Tom Egan, the Egan's Rats emerged from St. Louis's Irish slums. They learned their trade the old-...
|
|
cena:
137,87 zł |
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
ISBN: 9781586484385 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of "tombaroli"--tomb raiders-- who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former...
The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are ...
|
|
cena:
152,50 zł |
The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
ISBN: 9781592280445 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping account of an extraordinary international narcotics case as it unfolds on the streets of New York City, The French Connection is an absorbing and sometimes frightening documentary of the world's most successful narcotics investigation. A best-seller and the basis of the classic film of the same title, The French Connection remains one of the finest and most fascinating chronicles of police work ever written.
When New York City detectives Eddie "Popeye" Egan and his partner Sonny Grosso routinely tail the nephew of a fugitive mob boss, after observing some wild spending at the... A gripping account of an extraordinary international narcotics case as it unfolds on the streets of New York City, The French Connection is an absorbi...
|
|
cena:
62,48 zł |
King of the Godfathers: Big Joey Massino and the Fall of the Bonanno Crime Family
ISBN: 9780806528748 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over thirty murders, even killing a dozen of its own members to enforce discipline and settle scores. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the underboss who was not only Massino's closest and most trusted friend, but also his brother-in-law. In the end, facing...
The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called ...
|
|
cena:
79,40 zł |
The Fifth C: The Criminal Use of Diamonds
ISBN: 9780595468119 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The foundation that diamond values are based on are the Carat, Colour, Clarity and Cut of a diamond. These are the Four C's of diamond grading and have been the international qualifiers used to define the value of diamonds for centuries. The contemporary diamond industry the world over has tried to introduce a fifth C in an attempt to brand diamonds as "certified" or "conflict free." The branding provides added value to the diamonds but the jury is still out on what the Fifth C really is and the court of public opinion will decide this. The value of diamonds is also being re-defined by...
The foundation that diamond values are based on are the Carat, Colour, Clarity and Cut of a diamond. These are the Four C's of diamond grading and hav...
|
|
cena:
70,83 zł |
No Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth
ISBN: 9780312356170 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hell's Angels and fallen televangelists. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, urban clubs, college campuses, and military battle?elds. Methamphetamine is the stimulant wiring every corner of American culture. Like cocaine and heroin, meth was ?rst synthesized for medicinal purposes. By the 1940s, it was a wonder drug used to treat depression, hyperactivity, obesity, epilepsy, asthma, and addictions to other drugs and alcohol. But meth truly exploded years later when biker gang cooks using burners, beakers, and plastic tubes brought their expertise to remote... Hell's Angels and fallen televangelists. Cross-country truckers and suburban mothers. Trailer parks, urban clubs, college campuses, and military ba... |
|
cena:
83,54 zł |
The Hustlers: Gambling, Greed and the Perfect Con
ISBN: 9780330449519 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Invitations to John Aspinall and John Burke's illegal gambling parties were the most sought after in 1950s London--only the wealthy and well-connected were allowed past their door. When the police finally arrested them, Aspinall and Burke challenged the law--and won. As a result, gambling was legalized and crime boss Billy Hill and his lieutenant Bobby McKew took notice. Clubs sprang up everywhere and Billy had a foolproof way of fixing the cards. He also had his eye on the ultimate prize, Aspinall's exclusive new club, The Clermont . . . Revealing for the first time how Aspinall and Hill...
Invitations to John Aspinall and John Burke's illegal gambling parties were the most sought after in 1950s London--only the wealthy and well-connected...
|
|
cena:
94,73 zł |
Me and My Brothers
ISBN: 9780007275816 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie.
An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie.
|
|
cena:
91,90 zł |
Underworlds
ISBN: 9780745606446 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work describes organized crime and the world of marginal groups in the 17th- and 18th-century Netherlands. Rural banditry has often been associated with mountainous, poverty-stricken areas located at the peripheries of the European continent or on the borders between states. This book is about bands operating in the countryside of one of the most densely-populated, economically-developed, and pacified European states. It examines the nature of these criminal bands and the way they changed over time, probing the links between warfare, poverty, immigration, social exclusion, stigmatization...
This work describes organized crime and the world of marginal groups in the 17th- and 18th-century Netherlands. Rural banditry has often been associat...
|
|
cena:
318,78 zł |
Running with the Devil: The True Story of the Atf's Infiltration of the Hells Angels
ISBN: 9781599214498 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The infamous Sonny Barger once declared that the Hells Angels would never be infiltrated. 'Running with the Devil' chronicles the story of the ATF sting that proved him wrong and the undercover agents who risked their lives in the process.
The infamous Sonny Barger once declared that the Hells Angels would never be infiltrated. 'Running with the Devil' chronicles the story of the ATF sti...
|
|
cena:
69,02 zł |
Wayward Angel: The Full Story of the Hells Angels
ISBN: 9781599214634 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We all know about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder. But nobody really knows what it s like to be an Angel except an Angel. In this classic of Hells Angels literature, to be read alongside the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Sonny Barger, George Wethern for many years the vice president of the Oakland Chapter tells it like it is.Until he found himself in reluctant service to the courts, Wethern was the quintessential Angel. One of the West Coast s top drug dealers, he was a man who loved...
We all know about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even mur...
|
|
cena:
62,48 zł |