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Hachette Books Retail Gangster
Book SynopsisA biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as Crazy Eddie, whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all timeBack in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie as he was known to millions of people, the man behind the successful chain of electronic stores and one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history. Few things evoke the New York of a particular era the way Crazy Eddie! His prices are insaaaaane! does. The journalist Herb Greenberg called his death the end of an era and that couldn''t be more true. What''s insane is that his story has never been told.Before Enron, before Madoff, before The Wolf of Wall Street, Eddie Antar''s corruption was second to none. The difference was that it was a street franchise, a local place that was in the blood stream of everyone''s daily life in the 1970s and early ''80s. And Eddie pulled it off with a certain style, an in your face blue collar chutzpah. Despite the fact that then U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff called him the Darth Vader of capitalism after the extent of the fraud was revealed, one of the largest SEC frauds in American history after Crazy Eddie''s stores went public in 1984, Eddie was talked about fondly by the people who worked for him. They still do--there are myriads of ex-Crazy Eddie employee web pages that still attract fans, and the Crazy Eddie fraud scheme is now taught in every business school across the United States. Many years have passed since the franchise went down in spectacular fashion but Crazy Eddie''s moment has endured the way that iconic brands and characters do--one only need Google the media outpouring that accompanied his death. Maybe it''s because it crystallized everything about 1970s New York almost perfectly, the merchandise and rise of consumer electronics (stereos!), the ads (cheesy!), the money (cash!). In Retail Gangster, investigative journalist Gary Weiss takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most unbelievable business scam stories of all time, a story spanning continents and generations, reaffirming the old adage that the truth is often stranger than fiction.
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Random House USA Inc The Gangs of New York
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Penguin Putnam Inc There Will Be Fire
Book SynopsisA race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA’s attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed. A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another direction, flying tiles and masonry would have sliced her to ribbons. As it was, she survived—and history changed. There Will Be Fire is the gripping story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher, in the most spectacular attack ever linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Journalist Rory Carroll reveals the long road to Brighton, the hide
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iUniverse JUNGLE LAWS
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Thehotstar Eye of the Chickenhawk
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Thehotstar Eye of the Chickenhawk
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Bigwig
Book SynopsisTop crime writer Liam Houlihan documents the extraordinary rise and fall of the man they call Fat Tony, from his ascension in the drug trade to the decade long and only-now-complete struggle to hold Mokbel to account for his crimes.
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Henry Holt & Company Inc American Mafia A History of Its Rise to Power
Book SynopsisReppetto's book earns its place among the best ...he brings fresh context to a familiar story worth retelling. The New York Times Book Review Organized crime the Italian American kind has long been a source of popular entertainment and legend. Now Thomas Reppetto provides a balanced history of the Mafia's rise from the 1880s to the post-WWII era that is as exciting and readable as it is authoritative. Structuring his narrative around a series of case histories featuring such infamous characters as Lucky Luciano and Al Capone, Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience and access to unseen documents to show us a locally grown Mafia. It wasn't until the 1920s, thanks to Prohibition, that the Mafia assumed what we now consider its defining characteristics, especially its octopuslike tendency to infiltrate industry and government. At mid-century the Kefauver Commission declared the Mafia synonymous with Union Siciliana; in the 1960s the FBI finally admitted the Mafia's existence unTrade ReviewThe subject is sensational, but the work is never sensationalistic ... Any serious mob-watcher ... will want to have this book. Anyone who reads it with interest will join me in hoping that Reppetto writes a sequel swiftly and as well. The Sun (Baltimore) The Sun (Baltimore) "
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Henry Holt & Company Inc Bringing Down The Mob The War Against the American Mafia
Book SynopsisDrawing on a lifetime of field experience, this book tells the stories of the Mafia's twentieth-century bosses, showing how men such as Sam Giancana, "Crazy Joe" Gallo, and John Gotti became household names.Trade Review"American Mafia... was lucid, concise, and devoid of sensationalism... This equally well-written sequel is cogent and coherent." - The New York Times Book Review"
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl United States and International Drug Control 19091997
Book SynopsisProviding a picture of US involvement with international drug control from its inception to 1997, this book charts the American quest to internationalise the doctrine of drug prohibition, revealing its origins, motivation and methodologies, as well as contradictions and inconsistencies.Table of ContentsDrug prohibition in the United States and the evolution of international narcotic control, 1909-1945; the exportation of drug prohibition; US hegemony and the UN drug control system, 1945-1960; prohibition deferred; Harry Anslinger, the US and the multilateral drug control during the Cold War, 1950-1958; the spurned progeny; Harry Anslinger, the United States and the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs; the global drug prohibition regime at work.
£74.99
Iheringius The Red Scorpion A True Russian Mafia Story
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LEGARE STREET PR La La Camorra
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LEGARE STREET PR How An Inspector Of The Metropolitan Police Was Punished For Faithfully Performing His Duty To The Public
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Legare Street Press La La Camorra
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Legare Street Press Mafia E Giustizia a Proposito Del Processo Palizzolo...
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Legare Street Press La Mafia
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Legare Street Press Tammanys Treason Impeachment of Governor William Sulzer the Complete Story Written From Behind the Scenes Showing how Tammany Plays the Game how men are Bought Sold and Delivered
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Legare Street Press Les Brigands Demasques...
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Legare Street Press Industry Society and the Human Element
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Legare Street Press Evans And Sontag The Famous Bandits Of California
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LEGARE STREET PR Secret Band Of Brothers
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James the Noted Western Outlaws
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Danny Kaye Part 2 of 3
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Independently Published Pablo Escobars Story 2
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Data Thieves in Action Examining the International Market for Stolen Personal Information Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Book SynopsisThis book examines the practices of cybercriminals who steal and sell personal information acquired through various means, including mass data breaches, to engage in cybercrime and fraud. Social network analyses of the relational networks of participants are also utilised to examine their sophistication and structure.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Marketing and Sales of Stolen Data.- Chapter 3. The Economic Impact of Stolen Data Markets.- Chapter 4. The Social Organization of Actors in Stolen Data Markets.- Chapter 5. Visualizing The Networks of Economic Transactions and Ads in Stolen Data Markets.- Chapter 6. Implications and Conclusions.
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Mob Boss
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Cartels
Book SynopsisAn up-to-date examination of Mexico's version of the "War on Drugs" that exposes the evolution of major cartels and their corruption of politicians, law-enforcement agencies, and the Army.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Ten Commandments and "El Padrino" 2. The United States Seeks Interdiction of Drugs from Colombia 3. Shift in Cocaine Flows, the Gulf Cartel, and Los Zetas 4. The Sinaloa Cartel: Its Allies and Adversaries 5. Calderón's Approach to the Drug War 6. Impact of the "Militarized Drug War" on Mexican Society 7. Peña Nieto's Approach to Combating Cartel Violence 8. The Rule of Law 9. The Enablers 10. Conclusions Appendices A: History of Drug Activities B: Major Colombian Cartels C: Evolution of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas D: Phases in the Development of the Arellano Félix Organization E: Losses Suffered by the Arellano Félix Organization F: Overview of Cartels G: Summary of Cartels and Their Characteristics H: Prominent Kingpins Arrested/Killed during Calderón Administration I: Clashes between Military and Civilian Police: 2007–2011 J: Military Budgets and Desertions K: Mexico's Major Federal Law-Enforcement Agencies and Grassroots Forces at the Beginning of the Penã Nieto Administration L: Advisory Council for the Pact for Mexico M: Perpetrators of "Rough Justice" in Guerrero Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Mexican Cartels
Trade ReviewNo competing encyclopedia of this type exists. Nothing like it has ever been published before on this subject matter. * Small Wars Journal *Table of ContentsList of Entries, Introduction, A–Z Entries, Chronology, Glossary, General Works, Index,
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HarperCollins Publishers Outlaw Biker
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HarperCollins Publishers Showdown
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Xlibris Mafia Wife
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Speed Kills Who killed the Cigarette Boat King the fastest man on the seas Volume 4 Harris True Crime Collection
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Open Road Media The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia
Book SynopsisWinner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican. With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone’s kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob’s top earners throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen and counterfeit securities. In the spring of 1972, de Lorenzo and his shrewd and ruthless business partner, Vincent Rizzo, traveled to Europe to discuss a plan to launder millions of dollars worth of phony securities. Shockingly, the plot involved Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the scandal-plagued president of the Vatican Bank. Unbeknownst to de Lorenzo and Rizzo, however, the NYPD was already on the case—thanks to the crusading work of Det. Joseph Coffey. Coffey, the legendary New York policeman who investigated the Lufthansa heist and took the Son of Sam’s confession, first learned of the scheme in a wiretap related to the attempted mob takeover of the Playboy Club in Manhattan. From those unlikely beginnings, Detective Coffey worked tirelessly to trace the fraudulent stocks and bonds around the world and deep into the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and Rome. Meticulously researched and relentlessly gripping, The Vatican Connection is a true story of corruption and deceit, packed with “all the ingredients of a thriller” (San Francisco Chronicle).Trade Review“Explosive . . . All the ingredients of a thriller.” —San Francisco Chronicle “For people who enjoy reading about good gumshoes doing good work, with the added twist that at the end of the trail sit men in red hats and long robes abusing the power of their religious authority.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Hammer . . . fashions a smooth narrative around nefarious activities involving prominent political and religious figures.” —The New York Times
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Pablo Escobar: Beyond Narcos
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Unforgiving Destiny: The Relentless Pursuit of a Black Marketeer
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Strategic Book Publishing The Irish King of Winter Hill: The True Story of James J. Buddy McLean
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Pegasus Books BORGATA V02 CLASH OF TITANS
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Independently Published El Patron: Todo lo que no sabías del más grande
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Astra Publishing House The Rent Collectors
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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Mafia
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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd The Biggest Gang in Britain - Shining a Light on the Culture of Police Corruption
Book SynopsisThe first of two hard hitting, brutally honest accounts of police work during the late 1960s and 1970s. Whilst explicit, they are often humorous, refreshing and equally unbelievable. In this first book of a trilogy the author takes the reader through his early police service and in the second book Fifty Shades of Black 'n' Blue, his later years. The series of two gritty yet humorous books are written with such explicit content that leaves little doubt that many working practices of the 60s and 70s have in reality actually become a culture of dishonesty, lies and often stupidity which has been accepted by the Government of the day, the judiciary and the public at large for many years. That is of course until the present day when it has all gone so wrong. Very, very wrong with the revelations of the Hillsborough Investigation, the Jimmy Savile Investigation, so many more and even 'Plebgate' when The Biggest Gang believed they were so powerful that evidence against Andrew Mitchell MP, a member of Her Majesty's Government left so many questions, which when answered were proved to be blatant lies. This book explains that such examples are not typical of a minority rogue element as being claimed but are a dishonest culture, born so long ago but allowed to fester and grow with the many examples and revelations which have continued until today with Plebgate and Hillsborough as only two shocking examples.
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Independently Published Van Wars: The Real Story of the Brutal Glasgow Ice Cream Van Wars
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