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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh [Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi]

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 27,2014 )
The Mob and the City by C. Alexander Hortis
epub |eng | 2014-03-26 | Author:C. Alexander Hortis

Mob front groups used similar tactics. In 1960, a member of an “Italian-American service organization,” identified as “William Bonanno, a wholesale food distributor from Tucson, Ariz.,” condemned the “stereotyping of ...
( Category: State & Local May 20,2014 )
Slave Girl by Sarah Forsyth
epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Sarah Forsyth [Forsyth, Sarah]

3 In summer 2008 the Dutch government introduced a smoking ban for all cafés – drug ones or otherwise. But with typically Dutch eccentricity, they decided this applied only to ...
( Category: Organized Crime May 12,2014 )
The Natashas by Victor Malarek
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Victor Malarek

8 BOSNIAN NIGHTS We had a Christmas party where they had all these slaves there. One guy brought three girls to the party. —BENJAMIN JOHNSTON, A FORMER DYNCORP WORKER HIRED ...
( Category: Organized Crime May 6,2014 )
Gomorra by Roberto Saviano
mobi, epub |nld | 2011-04-01 | Author:Roberto Saviano

Deel twee Kalasjnikov Ik streek er met mijn vingers overheen met mijn ogen dicht. Ik liet het topje van mijn wijsvinger over het hele oppervlak glijden, van boven naar beneden. ...
( Category: Criminology April 28,2014 )
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez & Edith Grossman
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez & Edith Grossman

7 Maruja and Beatriz had not heard about the deaths. With no television or radio, and the enemy their only source of information, it was impossible to guess the truth. ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 22,2014 )
Hell's angels by Hunter S. Thompson
epub |eng | 2000-12-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Willow Cove was a natural Dunkirk. I watched the two remaining deputies; the moment they left, I was leaving too. . . their departure could only mean that things had ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 27,2014 )
The Best American Crime Writing by Otto Penzler
epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Otto Penzler [Penzler, Otto]

He remembers. Timmy Titimski remembers the bully—his bully, the one designed especially for him, like a bullet with his name on it. I remember him, too, of course. How can ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 26,2014 )
The Pirates of Somalia by Jay Bahadur
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Jay Bahadur [Bahadur, Jay]

While pirate gangs have proven remarkably adept at outmanoeuvring the international naval armada, they have no monopoly on the ability to adapt tactics. The Panamanian-flagged cargo ship Almezaan had been ...
( Category: African March 26,2014 )
Paddy Whacked by T. J. English
epub |eng | | Author:T. J. English

The Waterfront Commission The circumstances surrounding the sensational trial and execution of Cockeye and Squint proved to be the beginning of the end for Boss Joe Ryan. The rank-and-file had ...
( Category: Criminology March 26,2014 )
Nothing but Money by Greg B. Smith
epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Greg B. Smith [Smith, Greg B.]

The fifth race at Aqueduct featured a Najinsky colt named Glory of Fun. He’d been purchased at auction from a Saudi prince. His bloodline was strong, but this was his ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 26,2014 )
News of A Kidnapping by Garcia Marquez Gabriel
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Garcia Marquez, Gabriel [Garcia Marquez, Gabriel]

"Take it easy, Alberto," he said. "It’s a matter of a week." 7 MARUJA AND BEATHIZ had not heard about the deaths. With no television or radio, and the enemy ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 26,2014 )
Nothing But Money by Smith Greg
epub |eng | 2010-05-02 | Author:Smith, Greg [Smith, Greg]

The first time Warrington was handed that envelope of $25,000 cash, he’d wondered if it was right to keep it. Would his father have done it? Certainly. Would his grandfather ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 26,2014 )
Cosa Nostra by John Dickie
epub |nld | 2010-12-31 | Author:John Dickie [Dickie, John]

Toen de Drooglegging eindelijk werd afgeschaft, had Amerika vier jaar achter de rug van de Grote Depressie in de jaren dertig. De georganiseerde misdaad overleefde die overgang niet in de ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 26,2014 )
The First Family by Mike Dash
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Mike Dash [Dash Mike]

IT WAS THE Herald that announced the news, on February 20, 1909. Theodore Bingham had taken stock of the situation in Little Italy and decided on a radical solution, the ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 26,2014 )

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