True Organized Crime

Back in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon, a little Southern town styled itself as a premier destination for the American leisure class. Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, Art Deco splendor, and America's original national park - as well as horse racing, nearly a dozen illegal casinos, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals.

In 2005, a team of criminals tunneled beneath the streets of Fortaleza, Brazil, and pulled off one of the largest bank heists in history. Disguised as landscapers, they built an 80-meter tunnel, cut into the Banco Central’s vault, and vanished with 3.5 tons of cash—nearly $70 million. This gripping true-crime account reveals the daring plan, the nationwide manhunt, and the betrayals that turned fortune into bloodshed. A story of ambition, greed, and the fragility of institutions, it remains Brazil’s most infamous “heist of the century.”

A Legacy of Betrayal is a blistering exposé of the UK’s most shocking police corruption scandals, charting a harrowing history of misconduct that stretches from the earliest days of the force to the headlines of today. From falsified evidence and secret cover-ups to institutional racism and criminal conspiracies, this book reveals just how deep the rot goes.

The true story of a Russian mobster (Ludwig Fainberg a.k.a "Tarzan"), Cuban spy, Miami playboy, who hustled the Russian mafia, the Cali cartel, Pablo Escobar, the DEA, by selling a Soviet submarine to the Columbian drug cartel for $35 million in the 1990s. It was the crazy life of a Jewish man from Odessa (Ukraine) who became a Russian Mobster, hustled the Cali Cartel, and was arrested by the DEA while buying a...Soviet submarine to help the Colombian cartel to smuggle drugs into the United States.

Un épisode sans retenues de la façon dont les médias du Québec, au Canada, ainsi que les agences gouvernementales ont amplifié la rumeur et les insinuations pour tenir un tribunal fantoche visant à détruire les affaires, la réputation et la vie de Marcel Pontbriand. Il s'agit de la Partie 2 de la série Cowboy De La Route qui se concentre sur la trame de fond canadienne-française sur la manière dont le sensationnalisme a abouti à des montagnes russes émotionnelles qui ont détruit la vie de nombreuses familles québécoises

Here's what we now know: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Mafia contract killers hired by Louisiana mob boss Carlos Marcello. Kennedy was killed in that city because it was the only place in the country where a crime of that magnitude could be committed without fear of punishment. Long-time local district attorney Henry Wade, an LBJ crony who would have sole jurisdiction over the prosecution of those responsible, had been corrupted by the local Civello crime family. Lyndon B. Johnson, while a U.S. senator during the 1950s, had accepted bribes from the same mobsters so that they could avoid deportation.

Giorgio Basile, der Mann, den sie »Engelsgesicht« nannten, lebt. In schonungsloser Offenheit schildert Giorgio Basile sein Leben und seine Taten. Mit seiner Beichte und als Kronzeuge in aufsehenerregenden Mafia-Prozessen hat er viele alte Freunde vor Gericht gebracht. In seinem packenden Buch bietet Andreas Ulrich einen einzigartigen Einblick in die Welt des organisierten Verbrechens vor unserer Haustür.

Auf den Straßen deutscher Großstädte tobt ein Machtkampf: Kriminelle arabisch-stämmige Clans haben in Berlin, Bremen, Dortmund oder Essen über Jahre Großstadtkieze erobert – und kaum jemand hat sie aufgehalten. Nun hat der Staat den Kampf mit den Familienbanden aufgenommen. Bereits seit 2003 verfolgen die SPIEGEL-TV-Reporter Thomas Heise und Claas Meyer-Heuer die kriminellen Machenschaften dieser Clans.

A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history. When a small team of investigators discovered that a black market currency dealer was operating out of a Brazilian petrol station, they could never have imagined that their work would destroy the government and lead to the impeachment of two presidents.

The cult classic that traced how a religion that once embodied the 1960s hopes for peace, love and understanding metamorphozed into a worldwide organized crime ring. This new edition is being published in conjunction with a new documentary based on the book and contains a new foreword by the authors as well as Krishna images never published before.

Pablo Escobar was a mama’s boy who cherished his family and sang in the shower, yet he bombed a passenger plane and formed a death squad that used genital electrocution. Most Escobar biographies only provide a few pieces of the puzzle, but this action-packed audiobook reveals everything about the king of cocaine.

In a small village in New York, mob bosses from all over the country - Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Cuba boss Santo Trafficante, Jr., and Paul Castellano - were nabbed by Sergeant Edgar D. Croswell as they gathered to sort out a bloody war of succession. For years FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had adamantly denied the existence of the Mafia, but Robert Kennedy immediately recognized the shattering importance of the Apalachin summit....

The heist was flawless. The silence that followed wasn’t. In the explosive second volume of The Great Bookie Robbery Trilogy, A.J. Salara returns to 1970s Melbourne to chronicle the unraveling of a crew once believed to be untouchable. The money is gone, the job is done—but the danger has just begun. The perfect crime gave way to a perfect storm of secrecy, suspicion, and betrayal. Blood & Betrayal isn’t a story about how the heist was pulled off. It’s about what came after—when the celebration faded and fear took root.

Fighting on the frontline of the war against crime, Cam Addicott was one of the very few hard-boiled and highly-experienced surveillance operatives to get called up to the secretive and elite Alpha Projects unit - a group of dedicated undercover customs officers. Alpha Projects unit hunted the UK's most dangerous criminals by extraordinary means – starting with the interception and decoding of their phone calls. Cam soon knew the lives of the people he hunted better than they knew each other.

La historia jamás contada del hombre que derrotó al cartel de Cali.

Society has created many great men; yet before they were great, they were persecuted. During their plights, they stood up for what they believed in; even when others were afraid to stand. They were galvanized by truths, which created followers. It was then that trends emerged. The trends contradicted the norm and uprooted communities, which created fear. Society rejects what it does not understand. The unknown makes them tremble. The thought makes them cower.

He seems like a typical 16-year-old boy except that Mikey is walking the knife edge of crime. He’s tough and good with his fists, but when journalist Shane Dunphy is offered the chance to write his story, he discovers a lost, vulnerable child, in danger and desperate for help. Shane descends into the perilous underworld of organised crime and discovers that the glamour of gangland life is riven with brutality and murder. Far from providing a means of survival for boys from broken families, the price they pay is often with their life.

In this riveting true story of coming of age in the Chicago Mob, Charles “Charley” Hager is plucked from his rural West Virginia home by an uncle in the 1960s and thrown into an underworld of money, cars, crime, and murder on the streets of Chicago Heights. Street-smart and good with his hands, Hager is accepted into the working life of a chauffeur and “street tax” collector, earning the moniker “Little Joe College” by notorious mob boss Albert Tocco.

The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This is the first time its real story in this country has ever been told. The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been responsible for nearly 40 murders in Australia since the mid-1970s and many more before that.

Pablo Escobar was a mama’s boy who cherished his family and sang in the shower, yet he bombed a passenger plane and formed a death squad that used genital electrocution. Most Escobar biographies only provide a few pieces of the puzzle, but this action-packed 1000-page book reveals everything about the king of cocaine.