One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend--and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this legendary unsolved case us...
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Profiles the contract killers, fixers, and enforcers whose violent acts of conspiracy, racketeering, extortion, and murder helped John Gotti become the most powerful crime boss in America.
Presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso--from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back...
A Crazed Killer He dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard. La Costra Nostra Charles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the in...
"A comprehensive account of the legendary 1978 heist . . . impressive." - Kirkus Reviews The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas . The rest of the story that couldn't be told-until now. One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist...
The definitive, jaw-dropping account of the Jazz Age con woman, escort, speakeasy owner, and racketeer Vivian Gordon, whose sensational murder--and the damning list of powerful politicos, gangsters, and businessmen left behind in her diary--captivated Prohibition-era New York, ob...