American Organized Crime

There will be pain. My name is Cenzo. I’m the consigliere. I was born Vincenzo Bregoli. On the streets I’m known as 50 Cenzo. I’ve been shot, stabbed, strangled and drowned but nothing has taken me out. Losing a family member is nothing new to me, but this one was too close to home. Now I will rain the ultimate pain on my enemies. I will avenge the death of my blood, my one and only. With the help of my brothers Nicco, Lordes and Frankie, we will murder anyone that dares to war with the Bregoli Mafioso Family. No doubt about it, I will get my revenge or die trying. B.M.F. for life. ...

Katrina – A Dark and Thrilling Romantic Suspense 💀 She was their victim. Now, she’s their worst nightmare. 💀 By day, Detective Frank Gilford hunts criminals. By night, he’s consumed by an obsession—the elusive assassin known as The Phantom. For months, he’s tracked her kills, watching as she eliminates traffickers, corrupt politicians, and untouchable criminals. She’s not just a killer. She’s delivering justice the law can’t reach. Then, she calls him. Her voice is calm. Controlled. Dangerously familiar. She warns him about an enemy lurking in the shadows—the ...

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, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby-Face Nelson.

She thought he would save her. Now they are crawling through hell together with nothing left but guilt, rage, and a chance at revenge. Brianna trusted Sergei with everything. Her safety. Her secrets. Her heart. But when the Black Veil captured them both, stripped them, and forced them to perform for the camera, that trust shattered. She expected to hate him. He expected to be hated. But what neither of them expected was the fire that still burns beneath the wreckage. Every scrape of their bodies in the vents, every whispered promise of escape, reignites the hunger they both swore to bury. ...

A beautiful but deadly serial killer is on the loose, dishing out gruesome and lethal punishment to men who reject her … When Rose arrives in Florida to meet her new love, she is stood up at the airport, but chalks it up to a misunderstanding. She soon learns there is more to her boyfriend’s disappearance than him going on a wild drinking bender. After a frustrating and ultimately fruitless search, Rose realizes he is being held against his will. Rose must risk everything to unravel the woman’s deadly plot before she once again loses the man she loves to a killer. Blood & Bone is the ...

People mistake her for an average teenage girl … That’s often their last mistake. After being the youngest and the most dangerous assassin at the secret Italian facility that teaches young women how to kill, Rose abandoned her training to live as a normal teenager. Years later, her dark past and worst enemies catch up with her and destroy everything she holds dear. Now she only has one thing on her mind—a deadly vendetta. She won’t rest until there is blood on her hands one more time. Even if some of the blood ends up being her own. Blood & Roses is the first book in the Vigilante ...

In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his New York Times best-selling book Generation Kill and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned, began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de-facto “transportation chief” of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic.

There will be blood.My name is Lordes Donovan. Some people call me Lord but I’m no savior. My mother never wanted me. My trash bag father never cared about me. Being raised without parents had its pitfalls but I’m resilient. I’m stronger than the weak people that created me. I’m an only child. I like it that way. I never needed a big family. I never needed the love of a woman. All I have I acquired on my own. I’m a self-made multi-millionaire bachelor with no time for serious romantic connections until … As soon as I caught her in my arms I knew I had to have her. LaBria Harris ...

She watched him fight like a monster and kissed him like a man. But in a world of blood and shadows, even love can be a weapon. Nia never meant to fall for a Bratva enforcer, especially not one with fists like thunder and secrets sharp enough to slice her in two. She is a teacher, not a pawn, yet Roman pulls her deeper into a criminal world where trust is poison and desire feels like drowning. He is brutal, calculating, and obsessed. But when their kiss ignites in the middle of a bloodstained ring, the rules crumble. Roman never expected to want her. Protecting her means unraveling ...

“A stellar novel of action, adventure, and intrigue.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author The presumed president-elect has been assassinated. The fate of the United States is at stake. And Detective Jim Murphy of the Chicago PD is to blame. Serving as extra security in a parade for the apparent presidential winner, he succumbs to a moment of distraction. That indelible lapse allows an assassin to take down the president-elect. His shame is made even more profound now that Bryan, his rivalrous brother from the Justice Department, has come to Chicago to investigate the ...

Ever wonder why the famed Chicago School of sociology at the University of Chicago studied juvenile delinquency almost to the exclusion of all else, even though it was during the height of organized crime in Chicago? This book provides an answer, and a penetrating analysis of the influence of organized crime on American academic sociology.

He’s a walking scandal. Lakelyn The NFL superstar Wyatt Oakley is injured. Sports medicine is my specialty. I can’t assist. I’ve only crushed on the man forever. He’s eyed me, and I’ve done the same over the years. He’s off limits and so am I. I’m his best friend’s sister. He’d never cross that line. Wyatt I’ve known Lakelyn, my best friend’s kid sister, all my life. There isn’t another woman who can crawl under my skin like her. I want to rule that sassy mouth with my tongue. There was a time I could’ve made her mine. Then I went pro. ...

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

"Johnny Boy" Gotti burst onto the national scene after a double murder catapulted him to the top of the Gambino family, the largest and most feared Mafia family in the USA. Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci reveal the man behind the headlines.

Many critiques of the Trump era contrast it with the latter half of the 20th century, when the United States seemed governed more by statesmen than by special interests. Without denying the extraordinary vigor of President Trump's assault on traditional ethical and legal norms, Jonathan Marshall challenges the myth of a golden age of American democracy. Drawing on a host of original archival sources, he tells the shocking story of how well-protected criminals systematically organized the corruption of American national politics after World War II.

After a casual weekly dinner with her brother Alex, Mackenzie’s life is shattered when a brutal ambush leaves her to believe Alex is dead—his killers connected to a notorious crime boss. Fleeing for her life, Mackenzie seeks refuge at the Rocking W Ranch with Levi, her brother’s best friend and former military police. As she struggles to cope with the trauma, Levi vows to protect her and help unravel the mystery behind Alex's murder. In the quiet town of Misty Hollow, danger lurks as secrets are uncovered. Mackenzie and Levi are thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse, where ...

Frenemy: An enemy disguised as a friend. Dive into this mind-gripping, page-turner as a young man embarks upon a life of crime, while struggling to find his place in the world. They don't call him Truth for nothing. He is the Truth…literally. With the odds stacked against him, Truth is willing to do whatever it takes to make it to the top. He is faced with many trials throughout his young life, including the brutal death of his Mother, who taught him, "What don't kill ya, only make ya stronger". Jazzie is an alluring beauty with a bodacious body that always got her by in life. Jazzie’a ...

At first glance Gabriel Cardona is the poster-boy American teenager: great athlete, bright, handsome, and charismatic. But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas, are poor and dangerous, and it isn't long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. His younger friend, Bart, as well as others from Gabriel's childhood join him in working for the Zetas, boosting cars and smuggling drugs, eventually catching the eye of the cartel's leadership.

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 this first volume, Ferrante traces the mafia's phenomenal "rise of empire" through larger-than-life characters and legendary mobsters as they provide alcohol to the American public during Prohibition, penetrate industrial labor unions, practically take over the island of Cuba and, with extraordinary vision, create the gambling mecca of Las Vegas.