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- Killing the mob : the fight against organized crime in America / by O'Reilly, Bill,author.; Dugard, Martin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The true history of organized crime"--O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, they trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the "Five Families", the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. The stories of these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades make for riveting reading.- Subjects: True crime stories.; Organized crime; Mafia;
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- The whisky king : the remarkable true story of Canada's most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail / by Cole, Trevor,1960-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Journalist and novelist Trevor Cole presents a riveting portrayal of notorious Canadian crime figure Rocco Perri and the man who tried to bring him in.LSC- Subjects: Perri, Rocco, b. 1887.; Zaneth, Frank, 1890-1971.; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Organized crime; Prohibition; Undercover operations; Criminals; Criminals;
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- Gangster squad [sound recording] : covert cops, the mob and the battle for Los Angeles / by Lieberman, Paul,1949-;
Read by Ari Fliakos.The true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII.- Subjects: Cohen, Mickey, 1914-1976.; Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept.; Audiobooks.; Gangsters; Organized crime;
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- Kill the Irishman. by Hensleigh, Jonathan,film director.; Walken, Christopher,actor.; Flanagan, Fionnula,actor.; Cardellini, Linda,actor.; Stevenson, Ray,actor.; Kilmer, Val,actor.; D'Onofrio, Vincent,actor.; Lionsgate (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Christopher Walken, Fionnula Flanagan, Linda Cardellini, Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, Vincent D'OnofrioOriginally produced by Lionsgate in 2011.In this gritty crime drama based on a true story, Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is a fearless Irish-American mob enforcer in 1970s Cleveland. As Greene takes on the Mafia, surviving numerous assassination attempts, he becomes a folk hero of sorts in his community. His defiance and willingness to challenge the powerful Mafia bosses spark a brutal war that shakes the city's underworld. With a stellar cast, including Christopher Walken and Vincent D'Onofrio, KILL THE IRISHMAN chronicles Greene’s violent quest for power.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Crime.; Organized crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).;
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- Kill the Irishman. by Hensleigh, Jonathan,film director.; Walken, Christopher,actor.; Flanagan, Fionnula,actor.; Cardellini, Linda,actor.; Stevenson, Ray,actor.; Kilmer, Val,actor.; D'Onofrio, Vincent,actor.; Lionsgate (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Christopher Walken, Fionnula Flanagan, Linda Cardellini, Ray Stevenson, Val Kilmer, Vincent D'OnofrioOriginally produced by Lionsgate in 2011.In this gritty crime drama based on a true story, Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) is a fearless Irish-American mob enforcer in 1970s Cleveland. As Greene takes on the Mafia, surviving numerous assassination attempts, he becomes a folk hero of sorts in his community. His defiance and willingness to challenge the powerful Mafia bosses spark a brutal war that shakes the city's underworld. With a stellar cast, including Christopher Walken and Vincent D'Onofrio, KILL THE IRISHMAN chronicles Greene’s violent quest for power.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Horror films.; Crime.; Organized crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).;
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- The life we chose : William "Big Billy" D'Elia and the last secrets of America's most powerful mafia family / by Birkbeck, Matt,author.;
"William "Big Billy" D'Elia is Mafia royalty. The "adopted" son of legendary organized crime boss Russell Bufalino, for decades D'Elia had unequaled access to the man the FBI and US Justice Department considered one of the leading organized crime figures in the United States. But the government had no real idea as to the breadth of Bufalino's power and influence--or that it was Bufalino, from his bucolic home base in Pittston, Pennsylvania, who reigned over the five families in New York and other organized crime families throughout the country. For nearly thirty years, D'Elia was at Bufalino's side, and "Russ's son" was a witness and participant to major historical events that have stymied law enforcement, perplexed journalists, and produced false and wild narratives in books and movies--not the least of which being the infamous disappearance of union boss Jimmy Hoffa. In addition, their reach was illustrated by their relationships with Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, Suge Knight, and many other celebrities and personalities. D'Elia became the de facto leader of the Bufalino family upon Russell Bufalino's imprisonment in 1979, and he officially took control upon Bufalino's death in 1994 until his arrest in 2006, when he was charged with money laundering and the attempted murder of a witness. He pled guilty to money laundering and witness tampering and was released from federal prison in 2012. Candid and unapologetic, D'Elia is finally ready to reveal the real story behind the myths and in so doing paints a complicated, compelling, and stunning portrait of crime, power, money, and finally, family."--- Subjects: Biographies.; True crime stories.; D'Elia, William.; Bufalino, Russell, 1903-1994.; Gangsters; Mafia; Organized crime;
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- Hitman : the untold story of Canada's deadliest assassin / by Sher, Julian,1953-author.; Fitterman, Lisa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For Yves Trudeau, the blood was all business. An assassin for the Hells Angels in the '70s and '80s, Trudeau was known as Apache, the Mad Bumper and the Mad Bomber. As a contract killer, he did his job so well that the bikers sometimes lent him out to other organized-crime empires in Montreal, including the east-end French gangs led by the deadly Dubois brothers and the upstart Irish Mafia in the west end. Yves Trudeau remains one of Canada's most prolific serial killers. When he narrowly missed being assassinated because he was in rehab, he turned government informant and confessed to his crimes, which included killing forty-three people. But as a witness, Trudeau was a disaster. His testimony led to so many acquittals that prosecutors avoided him. Award-winning writers Julian Sher and Lisa Fitterman tell the incredible story of how this assassin escaped the police and the justice system for over a decade. A compelling and revealing account of corruption, incompetence and murder, Hitman is based on extensive research and exclusive new interviews with police, lawyers and bikers who knew Yves "Apache" Trudeau"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; True crime stories.; Trudeau, Yves, 1946-2008.; Assassins; Informers; Motorcycle gangs; Organized crime;
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- Envoy Connect player [equipment] : True crime. by Please return all components in the container.;
Includes: "A Gentleman and a Thief: The daring jewel heists of a jazz age rogue" by Dean Jobb, "'Until You Are Dead': The wrongful conviction of Steven Truscott" by Julian Sher, "Goodbye, My Little Ones: The true story of a murderous mother and five innocent victims" by Charles Hickey.- Subjects: Dyslexia-friendly.; True crime.; Equipment.; Preloaded audiobook.; Assistive devices.; Print disabilities.;
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- The case of the vanishing blonde : and other true crime stories / by Bowden, Mark,1951-author.; container of (work):Bowden, Mark,1951-Incident at Alpha Tau Omega.; container of (work):Bowden, Mark,1951-Why don't u tell me wht ur into.; container of (work):Bowden, Mark,1951-Million years ago.; container of (work):Bowden, Mark,1951-Body in room 348.; container of (work):Bowden, Mark,1951-Who killed Euhommie Bond?.;
"Throughout his long and illustrious career, Mark Bowden has written about crime and was recognized in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award by the International Thriller Writers organization. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde collects six of his most riveting pieces-accounts spanning four decades of searing characters and unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways technology has progressively altered criminal investigation. From a 1983 story of a campus rape at the University of Pennsylvania that unleashed a debate over the nature of consent when drinking and drugs are involved, to three cold cases featuring the inimitable Long Island private detective Ken Brennan and a startling investigation into a murderer deep within the LAPD's ranks, shielded for twenty-six years by officers keen to protect one of their own, these stories are the work of a masterful narrative journalist at work-gripping true crime from a writer the Washington Post calls "an old pro.""--- Subjects: True crime stories.; Crime; Criminals; Murder;
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- The Wolfpack : the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld / by Edwards, Peter,1956-author.; Nájera, Luis(Luis Horacio),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Joined by an award-winning Mexican journalist, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveals the successors to Vito Rizzuto's criminal dominance, a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival on Canada's doorstep of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico. Following the death of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013, a group of young criminals rose to fill the vacuum in power on his old turf. Targetting the old guard of Mafia and 'Ndrangheta, still led in many cases by men in their seventies and eighties and steeped in a highly structured, quasi-religious criminal tradition, the newcomers were nothing like their predecessors. The impatient millennials leading this self-styled 'Wolfpack' were organized-crime disruptors who grew up with technology at their fingertips in a socially networked criminal underworld. They're part of Canada's most ethnically diverse generation, and their organization was as inclusive as it is criminal. They shared an overwhelming sense of entitlement, with a self-assuredness that astonished their rivals but left them foolishly exposed to law enforcement, enemies and the force in global crime they were arrogant enough to think they could handle doing business with. The dominant and most violent force in the global narcotics trade through the 2000s, Mexico's Sinaloa and Los Zetas drug cartels, recognized the naivety of their eager new customers up north and invited themselves to Canada to take advantage. In times of chaos and collapsing orders, disruptors rule. But was this new gang the new underworld order, or just the latest challenger in an ongoing upheaval in the wake of Rizzuto's death? The bloody answers are in The Wolfpack."--- Subjects: True crime stories.; Wolfpack Alliance (Gang); Gangs; Organized crime;
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