Showing titles in Organised Crime

Ha fama di playboy esuberante. È appassionato d'arte e archeologia oltre che di automobili e abbigliamento di lusso; ama Diabolik e i videogiochi, cita la Bibbia e Daniel Pennac. È un assassino spietato: «Con le persone che ho ucciso» dice «potrei riempirci un cimitero». Pupillo di Totò Riina, da Castelvetrano, in provincia di Trapani, ha costruito il proprio impero arrivando ai vertici della mafia.

Er steht mit einem Kopfgeld von fünf Millionen Dollar auf der Most-Wanted-Liste des FBI. Er steckt hinter vielen Konflikten dieser Welt. Er wird seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten von Geheimdiensten wie CIA, NSA, MI6, Mossad, BND gejagt: Der Chinese Karl Lee gilt ihnen als gefährlichster Mann der Welt. Es beginnt in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ein ehemaliger FBI-Analyst meldet sich aus dem Nichts bei den Autoren, international bekannten Investivativreportern. Er berichtet von der langjährigen Suche nach einem Chinesen, der gefährlichste Waffentechnik verkauft. Der alle Embargos unterläuft.

Killing Goldfinger charts the extraordinary rise and spectacular bullet-riddled fall of John Palmer, the richest, most powerful criminal ever to have emerged from the modern British underworld. Palmer earned his nickname Goldfinger after smelting (in his back garden) tens of millions of pounds worth of stolen gold bullion from the 20th century's most lucrative heist; the Brink's-Mat robbery. Palmer then used his share of the millions to become the vicious overlord of a vast illegal timeshare property empire in Tenerife.

Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit. DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer should be easy. Then the wife of one of Harry's colleagues is discovered dead in her car, and Clare realises there is something more sinister at play… Can she find out who's behind the murders before they turn their attention to her?

D. 3. januar 1960 flygtede tre fanger fra det berygtede fængsel Alcatraz, også kendt som ’The Rock’. De tre fanger Frank Lee Moris og brødrene John og Clarence Anglin flygtede om natten på en flåde væk fra øen, hvor fængslet lå. Flåden og mændene blev aldrig fundet igen. Det, der blev fundet, var en paddelåre. FLUGTEN FRA ALCATRAZ er en del af FAMØSE FANGEFLUGTER, en true crime serie om menneskers trang til frihed. Det er sande fortællinger om kriminelle, der kæmper for at undslippe den monotone tilværelse bag tremmer på de mest udspekulerede måder.

The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob's top enforcers­-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams.

Il primo atlante mondiale della grande criminalità. Le mafie sono cambiate immensamente negli ultimi decenni. Fanno meno morti, forse, ma sono molto più potenti, ramificate, ricche. Si sono internazionalizzate, spesso hanno lasciato gli affari «piccoli» (prostituzione, gioco d’azzardo ecc.) a organizzazioni minori per concentrarsi su più redditizi business (dal traffico d’armi a quello di organi ed esseri umani all’emigrazione al traffico delle scorie radioattive ecc.).

The story of one of the most controversial figures in all of hip-hop history, Dummy Boy tells the tale of Tekashi 6ix9ine and his meteoric rise to fame. In tracing Danny "Tekashi 6ix9ine" Hernandez's life from Bushwick to the heights of the rap scene, Complex reporter Shawn Setaro illuminates the story of the young rapper who forged an alliance with a notorious street gang to bolster his image and boost his internet clout.

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old ways of thinking.

Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen. Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric true-crime noir. It is the story of Britain's 1960s gambling boom, as the country emerged from years of hardship to embrace exotic night-life and entertainment, all supplied by the Mafia.

Liam Thomas was an officer in the Met for over a decade, many of those years spent deep at the heart of Britain's most dangerous criminal enterprises in the murky world of undercover surveillance. Before him, his father had also been a police officer, a pillar of their small community. Fighting corruption was Liam's life. But the murky world of undercover work teaches him that justice is far from black and white - and a family secret reveals that corruption is closer to home than he had ever expected.

In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly remarried, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench . . . Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels, and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander." Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies.

Journalist Frederic Dannen reports on the questionable close relationship between a mobster/informant and an F.B.I. agent during a bloody Colombo crime family battle.

A humorous take on gangsters interviewing an image consultant named Mr. Buncombe who tells them about a scheme to market fragrances, open a theme park, sell bathrobes and Gangland "Mean Cuisine," as well as self-improvement cassettes and tax seminars. This selection is part of the full-length audiobook, "Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal From Organized Crime."

In 2015 and 2016, Baltimore was reeling after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody and the protests that followed. In the midst of this unrest, the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) roamed the city, robbing people, selling drugs and guns back onto the same streets they were supposed to be policing, and dividing the loot and profit among themselves. Created to trace guns back to the criminals responsible for Baltimore's high crime rates, instead, on March 1, 2017, all members of the GTTF were arrested on federal racketeering charges.

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes listeners inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison.

In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the US Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it. Naval intelligence officer Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Wenn Palermo heute so sicher ist wie andere Großstädte auch, wenn die Mafia zwar nicht besiegt ist, aber doch ihre Macht über die öffentliche Meinung verloren hat, dann ist dies vor allem der Zivilcourage von Leoluca Orlando zu verdanken. Als der Rechtswissenschaftler 1985 zum Bürgermeister von Palermo gewählt wurde, war er der erste Amtsinhaber, der das Schweigen über die Mafia brach und bei öffentlichen Aufträgen nicht mehr mit ihr paktierte. Seitdem steht er unter Polizeischutz.

On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quintessential Robin Hood figure who fought the law—and won. To the rest of the world he was an elusive criminal godfather called the Monk: an enigmatic criminal mastermind and the hunted leader of one side in the deadliest gangland feud in Irish criminal history. 

Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth exploration of the hidden power women wield in Latin American drug cartels You’ve heard of...