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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He arrived at every federal courthouse in a hand-tailored suit, silver hair swept back, smiling for the cameras that had made him famous. Three times the government charged him. Three times the jury acquitted. The tabloids named him the Teflon Don - the man no charge could touch - and for a decade, the name felt like a fact.John Gotti was not simply a criminal. He was a performance - a working-class kid from South Ozone Park who seized the leadership of the most powerful crime family in America by putting a bullet in his boss on a crowded Midtown sidewalk, then dared the government to prove it. What followed was something American organized crime had never produced: a celebrity don who understood that fame itself was a weapon, that the man the tabloids loved was, in some specific and politically useful sense, untouchable.He was wrong. The FBI's answer to the performance was to find the room where it stopped - the apartment above the Ravenite Social Club, where Gotti's voice recorded itself in the dark. When the tapes were played in court, and when the man he trusted most took the stand against him, the Teflon turned out to be theater.The Paradox of the Teflon Don is the definitive narrative account of Gotti's rise and fall - gripping, rigorously sourced, and unsparing in its examination of what his career reveals about power, celebrity, and the limits of both. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Before the revolution, Havana was theirs. American organized crime had built a casino empire in Cuba - world-class gambling floors inside luxury hotels, billions moving through Swiss accounts, and a Batista government that accepted the arrangement as a matter of economic policy. At the center of it all was Santo Trafficante Jr., the Tampa boss whose organizational intelligence, Cuban political relationships, and specific operational sophistication made him indispensable to the enterprise - and who watched it all vanish in a single revolutionary night on January 1, 1959.What Trafficante did next is the stranger and more consequential story. He cultivated his Cuban contacts, survived detention by the new government, and returned to Florida with something more durable than the casino empire he had lost: the specific knowledge, the relationships, and the operational capabilities that made him the obvious choice when the CIA went looking for someone to assassinate Fidel Castro. The mob killer became a Cold War asset. Whether he actually tried to deliver - or whether he played the CIA as skillfully as he played everyone else - is the question that haunts the historical record to this day.Then there is Dallas. The House Select Committee on Assassinations named Trafficante among the most likely suspects for organizational involvement in the Kennedy assassination. He denied it with the studied composure of a man who had spent forty years being the man who was never there.The Last Havana Godfather is the definitive narrative account of the most deliberately invisible figure in American mob history - his empire, his silence, and the unanswered questions he took to his grave. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Between the late 1930s and the early 1940s, a group of killers from the tenements of Brownsville, Brooklyn operated the most prolific assassination enterprise in American history. They were not freelancers. They were employees - the enforcement arm of the national crime syndicate, dispatched across the country to kill on contract, managed with the specific bureaucratic discipline of a business that had found, in murder, its core competency. The estimated body count: four hundred to five hundred people.Their names were Abe Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss, Happy Maione, Buggsy Goldstein. Their organizational architects were Louis Lepke Buchalter - the only national crime syndicate figure ever sent to the electric chair - and Albert Anastasia, the Lord High Executioner, who survived because his star witness went out a sixth-floor hotel window on a November night in 1941 while five detectives slept.The canary who could sing but couldn't fly. The most consequential defenestration in American organized crime history. What Abe Reles knew about Anastasia - and what died with him at the Half Moon Hotel - is one of the great unanswered questions of the mob era.Murder Inc. is the definitive narrative account of America's deadliest killing organization - its origins in the Brooklyn tenement world, its bureaucratic genius, its partial unraveling, and the questions it left permanently open. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Chicago, 1920. The Volstead Act has turned thirst into a black market, and the city's ancient corruption is ready to be organized. Into this moment steps a twenty-one-year-old from Brooklyn with a scar on his cheek, a gift for loyalty, and no hesitation about violence. Within a decade, Al Capone will command the most powerful criminal organization in American history - not through brutality alone, but through political strategy, corporate discipline, and an instinct for power that the city's legitimate institutions could not match and would not honestly confront.The Chicago Beer Wars is not a gangster story. It is a history of a system - of a great American city whose political culture was already corrupted before Capone arrived, of a constitutional amendment that created the largest illegal market in the nation's history, and of the man who understood both facts more clearly than almost anyone around him. Rico Bruno traces the full arc of Capone's rise and fall: from the Brooklyn streets and the mentorship of Johnny Torrio, through the beer wars and the massacre that made his name synonymous with a decade, to the federal tax prosecution that finally brought him down - and the organization that outlasted him by half a century.What endures in this account is not myth but mechanism: how criminal power is actually built, how it purchases legitimacy, how it survives pressure, and why it is never truly defeated by the removal of any single man. Capone did not corrupt Chicago. He inherited its corruption and perfected it. That is the more disturbing story - and the more instructive one.Authoritative. Immersive. Unsettling in all the right ways. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He was not supposed to rise. He was not supposed to survive. And he was never supposed to challenge the system that created him.In the shadowed world of New York's Mafia, power was inherited, not seized - protected by ritual, hierarchy, and silence. Then came Joe Gallo, a man who refused to play by rules older than his own name. Restless, unpredictable, and fiercely independent, Gallo did not simply live within the underworld - he disrupted it. His rebellion would fracture loyalties, ignite internal war, and expose the fragile foundations of an empire built on fear and tradition.Outlaw Among Outlaws is not just the story of a gangster. It is a study of power under pressure. A portrait of ambition that refused containment. And a chronicle of a system forced to confront its own contradictions.From the rigid authority of The Commission to the violent unraveling of the Profaci crime family, this book traces the fault lines that turned order into chaos. It reveals a hidden world where loyalty was currency, rebellion was fatal, and violence was negotiation by other means.He challenged the bosses.He broke the code.He paid the price.Blending narrative depth with historical precision, this account moves beyond myth to uncover the man behind the legend - and the forces that shaped him. It explores how crime operates not as disorder, but as an alternative form of governance, complete with its own laws, economies, and systems of control.Because the truth is unsettling: The underworld does not collapse.It evolves.And sometimes, it produces men who refuse to kneel. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In the years after World War II, a stretch of desert on the edge of Nevada became the stage for one of the most improbable transformations in American history. Out of dust, distance, and uncertainty, Las Vegas began to take shape-not as a conventional city, but as an experiment in risk, reinvention, and reward. At the center of this shift stood Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, a man shaped by the brutal street economies of New York and elevated into a far more ambitious arena where crime, capital, and spectacle began to converge.Flamingo Dreams: Bugsy Siegel and the Birth of Las Vegas traces this transformation through the lens of power, ambition, and structural change. It moves beyond the familiar mythologies that surround Siegel to examine the historical forces that made his rise possible: the decline of Prohibition-era networks, the evolution of organized crime into corporate-style syndicates, and the emergence of Las Vegas as a financial and cultural frontier. Rather than treating Siegel as an isolated figure of notoriety, this account situates him within a broader system-one in which legality and illegality often overlapped, and where opportunity was defined by access, influence, and risk.Through a carefully reconstructed historical narrative grounded in documented sources, this book explores how vision and volatility combined to shape one of the most iconic cities in the modern world. It reveals how the Flamingo Hotel became more than a failed luxury project-it became a turning point in the relationship between organized crime and American development, and a symbol of the fragile boundary between aspiration and collapse.This is not simply the story of a gangster. It is the story of how cities are built in the shadows of ambition, and how the pursuit of profit can reshape landscapes, institutions, and memory itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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