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Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment. The vory-as the Russian mafia is also known-was born early in the twentieth century, largely in the Gulags...
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Brought up in the East End of London, son of a policeman, John was already dabbling in crime by his early teens, ending up in a young offenders institute and then a borstal. He'd left home at 15 and the only occupation he knew was theft. He landed a job doing security at concerts for stars such as Simply Red, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and was lured deeper into the world of drugs and crime. By his 20s he was well-acquainted with the capital's criminal...
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Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body that's linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members' club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong.
45) You Can't Win
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You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs. After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Can't Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition. Feral House's new version will take this classic American narrative a lot further, including two remarkable nonfiction...
46) Inside man
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Grand Central Publishing
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2014.
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388 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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When Sam Capra's best customer--and friend--is murdered outside his Miami bar, Sam decides to seek justice. Determined to find out the connection between his friend's death and a beautiful stranger, Sam infiltrates the Ligeras, one of Miami's most prominent--and dangerous-families. He faces a powerful but unstable mastermind intent on dividing his business empire between his three very different children, who may hold murderous secrets of their own....
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The sensational tell-all biography of Hollywood’s most infamous mob boss who dominated Los Angeles’s underworld—and headlines—from the 1940s to the 1970s.
When Bugsy Siegel was murdered in 1947, his henchman Mickey Cohen took over his criminal enterprise in Los Angeles. As charismatic as he was ruthless, Cohen attained so much power up until his death in 1976 that he was a regular above-the-fold newspaper...
When Bugsy Siegel was murdered in 1947, his henchman Mickey Cohen took over his criminal enterprise in Los Angeles. As charismatic as he was ruthless, Cohen attained so much power up until his death in 1976 that he was a regular above-the-fold newspaper...
48) Insane city
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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c2013
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341 p. ; 24 cm.
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Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
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Ediciones B Mexico S.A. de C.V
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2013.
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148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Español
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The Los Zetas drug cartel runs rampant throughout Mexico as readers examine this cartel's role in the kidnapping and extortion schemes, weapons, and drug trafficking operations that endanger the country. Mexico, 164pp.
51) Killin smallz
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Dreamscape Media
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A mob family that is not earning as they did in the past comes up with a crazy idea after watching the movie Stealing a Survivor to kidnap someone famous for ransom.
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"Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a city "in its brawny postwar prime," is where "Little Joe" Regino and Russ Shorto build a local gambling empire on the earnings of factory workers for whom placing a bet--on a horse or pool game, pinball or "tip seal"--is their best shot at the American dream. Decades later, Russell Shorto grew up knowing that his grandfather...
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On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. And when Hollywood starts shooting...
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In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People's Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party's domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America's...
57) Shadow rider
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Shadow volume 1
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Whether it’s fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he’s not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses—both legitimate and illegitimate. While their criminal activity is simply a rumor yet to be proven, no one knows the real truth. The Ferraros are a family of shadow riders capable of manipulating light and dark, an ability Stefano thought ran in his family alone—until now… ...
58) Bad city
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Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
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In a city plagued with poverty and crime, a corrupt mafia-connected businessperson runs for mayor and starts eliminating his opponents. A former police captain in jail for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force in a desperate, last-ditch effort to take down the corrupt tycoon.
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Paul LeRoux nació en Zimbabue y se crio en Sudáfrica. Tras sus primeros trabajos como empresario pionero en la seguridad informática, se lanzó de cabeza al lado oscuro, utilizando su extraordinario talento para desarrollar un nuevo modelo de negocio en el crimen organizado. Por el camino, creó un grupo de mercenarios compuesto por antiguos francotiradores de EE.UU. y de la OTAN para llevar a cabo asesinatos por su propio placer y beneficio. El...
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