Ergebnis für "Für den Wolf" in Organisiertes Verbrechen

Erstmals ein Buch über die Rolle der Frauen in der Mafia – Roberto Saviano zeigt, wie die Strukturen und Werte des organisierten Verbrechens das Liebes- und Familienleben bestimmen. Packend erzählt „Treue“ von realen Frauen in der Mafia: beispielsweise von Maria Grazia Conte, deren heimlicher Sohn mit einem Mafiaboss ihr zum Verhängnis wird. Von Vincenzina Marchese, durch deren erzwungene Heirat der Frieden zwischen zwei rivalisierenden Mafiafamilien besiegelt werden soll.

The true story of two American teenagers turned cartel assassins—and the Mexican American detective who fought to stop them. Wolf Boys is “a hell of a story…undeniably gripping” (The New York Times), a harrowing nonfiction thriller that reads like a crime novel but is rooted in...

Regina Martínez was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. She was barred from press conferences, and copies of Proceso often disappeared before they made the newsstands. In 2012, shortly after Proceso published an article on corruption and two Veracruz politicians, and the magazine went missing once again, she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe.

Caught between the Mob and the feds in a plot to save the casinos in Havana from Castro's revolution, Wolfe Rabin pulls the biggest money-laundering scheme in history, but his hubris leads to the conspiracy unraveling in a sensational trial. At a time when there was a jukebox in every restaurant, diner, bar, barracks, arcade, and canteen, Rabin's trajectory from inventor to promoter to outlaw is set against the Mob's growing infiltration of the jukebox industry.

A young man desperate for work and independence finds himself employed in a rural nursing home. When young Jason gets too close to a resident (a self-proclaimed KGB spy who is under the watchful eye of an agent known only as Chandler) he finds his only way out is in.