Ergebnis Anbieter "Audible Studios" in Organisiertes Verbrechen

Unter falscher Identität sollte der gebürtige Kubaner Joaquin Garcia in Mafiakreisen ermitteln und erhielt dafür als erster Geheimagent in der Geschichte des FBI eine fundierte Gangsterausbildung...

Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force―the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed “The Tsunami”, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.

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.

Un libro che racconta il potere della camorra, la sua affermazione economica e finanziaria, e la sua potenza militare, la sua metamorfosi in comitato d'affari. Una scrittura in prima persona fatta dal luogo degli agguati, nei negozi e nelle fabbriche dei clan, raccogliendo testimonianze e leggende. La storia parte dalla guerra di Secondigliano, dall'ascesa del gruppo Di Lauro al conflitto interno che ha generato 80 morti in poco più di un mese.

What drug lords learned from big business. How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola.

Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history - "Little" Nicky Scarfo’s reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s - written by Scarfo’s underboss and nephew, "Crazy" Phil Leonetti. The youngest-ever underboss at the age of 31, Leonetti was at the crux of the violent downfall of the traditional American Mafia in the 1980s when he infiltrated Atlantic City after gambling was legalized, and later turned state’s evidence against his own.

They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.

The definitive portrait of the powerful, corruption-ridden Teamsters union and its legendary president Jimmy Hoffa - organizer, gangster, convict, and conspirator - with a new afterword by the author.

Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s.

One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local bigwigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years go by, and Elisa's family can find only false leads.

New York, 1920. Quartiere di Hell’s Kitchen, un nome che evoca bolge dantesche e descrive perfettamente una realtà di miseria, speranza e razzismo. È lì che inizia la storia di Mario Puzo, figlio dell’immigrazione italiana e autore de Il padrino, un libro dal successo planetario destinato a fondare il mito di Cosa nostra con cui facciamo i conti tuttora.

On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Jonny Steinberg met Wentzel in prison in the dying months of 2002. By the time Wentzel was released, he and Steinberg had spent over 50 hours discussing his life experiences. The Number is an account of their conversations and of Steinberg's journeys to the places and people of Wentzel's past.

J. Jesús Esquivel, autor de La D.E.A. en México, ha conseguido develar los entresijos del narcotráfico en Estados Unidos al sumergirse en la lectura de incontables expedientes judiciales, además de entrevistar a informantes clave.

Falco per i colleghi. Mario Bottari per i boss. Giulio per la moglie. Carlos nella sua ultima missione. Tante le identità di un maresciallo dei carabinieri sotto copertura infiltrato nel business del narcotraffico per tutti gli anni Novanta, quando i tir carichi di droga invadono il mercato europeo. Falco segue le rotte degli stupefacenti attraverso rischiose operazioni in Italia, Svizzera, Stati Uniti, Colombia, Bolivia, Turchia; e per un decennio tratta affari con mafiosi e trafficanti, vive a stretto contatto con killer e confidenti, in un pericoloso intreccio di rapporti.

Criminal exploits, secret agent intrigue, and clever disguises fill the pages of Francois Eugene Vidocq’s memoirs. A legendary figure in history, Vidocq is known as the first detective and an inspiration to great writers such as Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Edgar Allen Poe. As a player in the criminal underworld, Vidocq is a master of disguises and an accomplished thief, eventually turning his unlawful talents toward catching criminals as the first French chief of secret police.

Negli ultimi cinquant'anni mafia, camorra e criminalità comune hanno compiuto una mattanza che non ha eguali in nessuna parte del mondo: l'Italia è il Paese con il maggior numero di vittime che appartengono alla società civile, al mondo delle professioni, alla Chiesa, alle forze dell'ordine e alle istituzioni. Il lungo elenco dei delitti "eccellenti" comprende politici, magistrati, giornalisti, docenti universitari, avvocati, poliziotti, carabinieri, parroci. Uomini che hanno scelto di mettere l'amore per la giustizia e la verità al primo posto: una scelta che è costata loro la vita.

From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this wide-reachinghistory offers a riveting account of its past 100 year, from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era.

Credevamo che fosse già stato detto tutto su Pablo Escobar, il più sanguinario e potente narcotrafficante di tutti i tempi, il settimo uomo più ricco del mondo all'apice del suo successo, ma ci si rende conto che le cose di cui eravamo a conoscenza finora erano soltanto storie narrate dall'esterno, mai dall'intimità del suo focolare. Le storie familiari sono fatte di silenzi, alle quali solo il trascorrere del tempo può concedere uno spazio.

"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.

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.