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Author: Teresa Carpenter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501166123
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Missing Beauty comes a fascinating inside look at the mafia. Growing up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City, Arlyne Brickman associated with mobsters. Drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle, she was soon dating "wiseguys" and running errands for them; but after years as a mob girlfriend, Arlyne began to get in on the action herself—eventually becoming a police informant and major witness in the government's case against the Colombo crime family.

Author: C. Horne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540489838
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Angel Black is as beautiful as she is deadly. After her mother's death, Angel is sold into prostitution by the man she believed to be her father. Things look bleak for Angel until she is rescued by the infamous crime boss of Atlanta, Don Rick Tocco. He takes her in and introduces her to the gangster lifestyle, while concealing their true connection. The rivalry between Gorilla Black and Don Rick Tocco has spanned over decades with casualties on both sides. Things come to a head when Gorilla Black's latest attempt on Rick's life hits too close for comfort. Disappointed in his only son, Don Tocco finally gives Angel the assignment she's been waiting for and she sets out to end the rivalry and Gorilla Black's life.The stakes are high in this modern crime story as two powerhouses go head to head. When the dust settles, will Angel take her place as head of the family, or die trying?

Author: Clare Longrigg
Publisher: Miramax
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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In this eye-opening expose of the women at the deadly heart of the Mafia, reporter Claire Longrigg uncovers a fascinating subculture of American females - and their strategies for survival. Longrigg persuaded these women to break the code of silence with astonishing results. Based on in-depth interviews with the mothers, daughters, wives, sisters, and girlfriends of notorious mobsters, we are offered an unprecedented glimpse into a fiercely private and frightening world.

Author: Giovanni Fiandaca
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387365427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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The insightful essays in this book shine a new light on the roles of women within criminal networks, roles that in reality are often less traditional than researchers used to think. The book seeks to answer questions from a wide range of academic disciplines and traces the portrait of women tied to organized crime in Italy and around the world. The book offers up accounts of mafia women, and also tales of severe abuse and violence against women.

Author: Deborah Blumenthal
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807549126
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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What's in a name? Everything... if you have my name. At her exclusive Manhattan high school, half the guys lust after seventeen-year-old Gia. The other half are afraid to even walk near her. After all, everyone knows who she is. They know that her father doesn't have a boss. He is the boss—the capo di tutti, boss of all bosses. But they don't know the real Gia. She's dreaming of a different life—one where she can be more than her infamous name. And lately, she's thinking way too much about Michael, the green-eyed cop who's wrong for her for so many reasons. And yet being with him feels so right. Now the real Gia is keeping secrets of her own alongside her family's. And she's breaking all the rules to get what she wants.

Author: Jerry Capeci
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250037433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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Reminiscent of Wiseguy, Mob Boss is a compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounting the life and times of the first acting boss of an American Mafia family to turn government witness Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese organized crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti's top aide, Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D'Arco's life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for four decades. Until the day he switched sides, D'Arco lived and breathed the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D'Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on mob secrets going back a hundred years. After speaking with D'Arco, the authors reveal unprecedented insights, exposing shocking secrets and troublesome truths about a city where a famous pizza parlor doubled as a Mafia center for multi-million-dollar heroin deals, where hit men carried out murders dressed as women, and where kidnapping a celebrity newsman's son was deemed appropriate revenge for the father's satirical novel. Capeci and Robbins spent hundreds of hours in conversation with D'Arco, and exhausted many hours more fleshing out his stories in this riveting narrative that takes readers behind the famous witness testimony for a comprehensive look at the Mafia in New York City.

Author: Clare Longrigg
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Women in the Mafia are taking a leading role. They kill for revenge, buy arms, run extortion rackets, recycle drug money. Some want to be bosses themselves. Claire Longrigg has tracked these women down and they have talked to her at length. In this brave and vivid book she describes the traditional - and changing - role of women in the Cosa Nostra, both in Italy and the USA. She writes too, of how women have used their knowledge of the Mafia to escape from it, by turning informer to win freedom from violent marriages and to give their children a future. This movement has started a social revolution. The Mafia can no longer depend on women to be silent martyrs- in the future they will either be partners - or they will bring the organisation down.

Author: Peter Maas
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060930969
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

Author: Debra Anastasia
Publisher: Debra Anastasia
ISBN: 9781959285045
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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While on a mission to save his brother from a crime boss, a man kidnaps three women suspected of being an infamous group of assassins-but when their real identities are revealed, they must team up to evade danger and save each other.

Author: Jeff Burbank
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174724
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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These seven precedent-setting case studies taken from the files of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Commission illustrate vital issues addressed in the first decade of Las Vegas' megaresorts.