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"If your Sopranos addiction shows no signs of abating," the life and crimes of a mob boss from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Night Stalker (Los Angeles Times).
The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"—concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities...
The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"—concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities...
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English
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On December 11, 1978, a daring armed robbery rocked Kennedy Airport, resulting in the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history, totaling six million dollars. The perpetrators were never apprehended and thirteen people connected to the crime were murdered in homicides that, like the crime itself, remain unsolved to this day. The burglary has fascinated the public for years, dominating headlines around the globe due to the story's unending ravel...
3) Mob killer
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
5) The Pierre Hotel affair: how eight gentlemen thieves orchestrated the largest jewel heist in history
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Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the true story of the largest jewel theft in history by highly skilled thieves who orchestrated an elaborate plot to rob New York's Pierre Hotel with the blessing and assistance of the Lucchese crime family.
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English
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Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals and generational changes that produced violent and unreliable leaders and recruits. A twenty year assault against the five families in particular blossomed
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 652 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lance draws on three decades of once secret FBI files to tell the definitive story of Greg Scarpa Sr., a.k.a. the "Grim Reaper, " a Mafia capo who "stopped counting" after 50 murders, while secretly betraying a crime family as an informant for the FBI.--From publisher's description.
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