In It's Just the Way It Was: Inside the War on the New England Mob and other stories, Joe Broadmeadow and Brendan Doherty take you inside the investigations, covert surveillances, and murky world of informants in the war against Organized Crime.
Make no mistake about it, it was a war targeting the insidious nature of the mob and their detrimental effect on Rhode Island and throughout New England. Indeed, the book reveals the extensive nature of Organized Crime throughout the United States.
From the opening moments detailing a mob enforcer's near death in a hail of gunfire to the potentially deadly confrontation between then Detective Brendan Doherty and a notorious mob associate, Gerard Ouimette, this book puts you right there in the middle.
Most books on the mob tell a sanitized story of guys who relished their time as mobsters. As Nicholas Pileggi, author of "Wiseguys," put it, "most mob books are the egomaniacal ravings of an illiterate hood masquerading as a benevolent godfather."
This is not that kind of book. This is the story of the good guys.
It's just the way it was.
Автор: Farrell Charles Название: (low)Life: A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and the Mob ISBN: 1949590194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781949590197 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27590.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
(Low)life is a gripping memoir from Charles Farrell, a world-class jazz musician and self-admitted "fight fixer" and "gangster."
Farrell trades in the world of jazz for boxing, and becomes business partners with the legendary boxer Floyd Patterson. He is eventually is forced to flee to a farm in Puerto Rico, with a mob contract on his life. After he returns home, with the help of boxing legend Al Braverman, he goes back to jazz and collaborates frequently with his friend Ornette Coleman, the godfather of "Free Jazz."
A world-class jazz pianist, Charles Farrell made his living working in Mob-controlled Boston clubs from the time he was a teenager in the 1960s. He later traded music for the shady world of professional boxing, managing dozens of fighters, including the notorious Mitch "Blood" Green, who famously lost twice to Mike Tyson--once in the ring, and once in the street.
A self-admitted "fight-fixer" and "gangster, " but not a "tough guy," Farrell ran afoul of the actual tough guys in the 1990s, and fled to a farm in Puerto Rico, coming home only after an aging boxing legend brokered his safe return.
p> Retired from the fight game, he returned to jazz and, among other collaborators, played frequently with his friend, Ornette Coleman, the godfather of "Free Jazz" and one of the greatest jazz musicians of the 20th century. (Low)life is a singular book by a singular man.
Автор: Deitche Scott M. Название: Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey ISBN: 1538129779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538129777 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 35200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Scott M. Deitche provides a historical examination of the rise of the mob in New Jersey, and the influence it had not only on the Garden State and New York metro region but the country as a whole.
How did a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn wind up running Wall Street swindles for the Mafia, hobnobbing with the big names of show business making and spending fortunes in a week--then turning informer for the U.S. Government and losing everything, including his own name and identity?
It happened to Micheal Hellerman.
the bright, well-educated son of a respected New York Banker. At age twenty-two, Mike was the whiz-kid of Wall Street, handling millions in corporate funds, moving on the fast track with some high class entertainers, rubbing soldiers with top politicians, financiers and mobsters.
Making money was his passion and he didn't care much where it came from. He worked mind-boggling swindles, corrupting brokers in prominent Wall Street firms and using them to turn worthless shell corporations into $50 stocks overnight, calling on his friends in the Mafia for capital and protection. It was a fabulous racket, until the Feds got wise. Then Mike had to turn choose - turn informer for the government or spend the rest of his life in jail.
Hellerman decided to sing. In this book he reveals what he told the government - a staggering tale of crime and corruption reaching into the highest circles of corporate finance and Washington Bureaucracy. He also describes the nerve wracking life of a protected witness with a mob contract out on his life - and his new beginnings under an assumed name and identity supplied by the government. Finally, Hellerman spells out in detail the shaky stock laws still on the books and shows how a clever crook can get around them to make millions under the table - all at the expense of small time investors.
This is a book that unfolds like sensational fiction - but it's all true. What you will read here - Mike Hellerman's personal testimony - has already sent droves of men to jail and made Mike a fugitive from himself, and his past forever.
The Golden State Killer. Charles Manson. Zodiac. Alcatraz. Al Capone. The kidnapping of Patty Hearst. What do they all have in common?
San Francisco.
In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From the city's earliest days, where vigilantes hung perps from buildings and newspaper publishers shot it out on Market Street, to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer, crime has made the people of San Francisco who they are. Murder and mayhem are intertwined with the city's art, music, and politics. The Great 1906 Earthquake that burned down the old Barbary Coast shook a city that was already teetering on the brink of a massive prostitution scandal. The Summer of Love ended with a pair of ghastly acid dealer slayings that made the Haight too violent for even Charles Manson. The '70s ground to a halt with San Francisco pastor Jim Jones forcing his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch in Guyana, and the assassination of gay icon Harvey Milk. With each tale of true crime, The Murders That Made Us will take you from the violence that began in the original Gold Rush into the brutal displacement of today's techie ruination.
Автор: Holmes Benjamin Название: Mob Deep ISBN: 1645310310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645310310 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17430.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: "The Mob" has been alive and well in Youngstown, Ohio since the 1950s. Youngstown was the halfway point for mobsters traveling between New York and Chicago.
Автор: Adeyinka Makinde Makinde, Adeyinka Makinde, Makinde Adeyinka Название: Jersey Boy: The Life and Mob Slaying of Frankie Depaula ISBN: 1450206395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781450206396 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 40320.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Author Orlando (Ori) Spado honestly recants his humble beginnings from the small town of Rome in upstate New York, to becoming known as "The Mob Boss of Hollywood." A candid account documenting his fall from a well-known Hollywood fixer mixing with A list celebrities to serving 62 months in Federal prison, and ultimately making a determined comeback.
"For nearly forty years Orlando 'Ori' Spado was a friend and associate of John 'Sonny' Franzese, underboss of the Colombo organized crime family. His relationship with Sonny brought him to the attention of the FBI, and eventually led to his being indicted with Sonny on federal RICO charges, and imprisoned. In The Accidental Gangster Ori provides the details of his time in 'the life' and his long battle with the FBI--whose overwhelming resources made it a fight that was impossible to win."- Nick Pileggi, Author & Screenwriter
"Orlando 'Ori' Spado had been a thorn in the side of the Los Angeles field office of the FBI for almost two decades before they finally took him down. Accidentally or not, Ori was a quintessential Mob character, complete with a pinkie ring and a slow, steady deliberate voice whether speaking with friends or foes. But like so many other 'Good Fellas, ' he was set up by a friend's son. You will have to read the book to find out who set him up. Enjoy "- John Connolly, author of the NY Times bestselling true crime book, FILTHY RICH
Автор: David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker Название: Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772–1938 ISBN: 1476673411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476673417 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 44350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the period 1771-1938, hundreds of acts of mob violence took place within the bounds of Ohio. Many of these acts were attributed to well-known and respected men - and women - in the community, but few were ever prosecuted. And some were even lauded for taking the law into their own hands. This is the first book to take a detailed look at mob violence in Ohio.
The public knows him as the character Tony Darvo in the movie Midnight Run, but Richie Salerno was born into the world of the Brooklyn Mafia during the heyday of the New York mob and for a time it looked like he'd get caught up in a life of crime. After all, some of the most notorious figures in the gangster world he knew as uncles, aunts, cousins and family friends. During a stint in prison for theft, Richie turned his life around using the tailoring skills he learned from his father and butchering abilities he picked up from his father-in-law to ingratiate himself with the warden and guards which got him through one hundred and twenty months without a scratch.
As luck would have it, after his release he scored an audition for a film Serpico directed by Sidney Lumet, best known for "12 Angry Men" and "Dog Day Afternoon." That audition turned into a career of long standing as a character actor in major Hollywood films.
Now, Richie has written a memoir of his journey from the mean streets of Brooklyn and as a child of the mob to the silver screen.
Автор: Sussman Jeffrey Название: Boxing and the Mob: The Notorious History of the Sweet Science ISBN: 1538113155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538113158 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 49280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Boxing and the Mob explores the heavy influence of the mob on boxing in the 1930s through the early 1960s. It profiles boxers such as Abe Attell and Sonny Liston and infamous mobsters including Owney Madden and Frankie Carbo. In addition, this book details many of the most notorious fixed boxing matches in the sport`s history.
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