Secrets of criminal geniuses, habits of notorious mobsters and manipulations of the mafia are brought to light in this informative book. The statistics will shock you, the illustrations will impress you and the tales of the criminal underworld will be sure to entertain you for hours on end. Not for the faint-hearted!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Nice Overview:
For a coffee table-type book of less than 200 pages, this does provide a pretty good overview of the history, structure, and operations of major organized crime groups throughout the world and also offers a wonderful photo collection. Documentation is sparse, a few common legends are recirculated, and the sidebar on the Tommygun contains some inaccuracies but it's still a much better book than I expected.
Good overview of all organized crime.:
This book does a good job of covering all organized crime groups in the world. The book starts out by giving a brief history of organized crime from the Blackbeard pirate days to the American Mafia. The book then goes into the illegal activities that are the bread and butter money makers for these organizations. From there the author dedicates a chapter to every type of group covering, The American Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, Drug Cartels, Yakuza, Triads, and Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. Also listed were... more info
Good Stuff:
When Albert Anastasia sat in the barber's chair and then gets shot by his mob opponents, it touched off decades of gang infighting. This book deals with some of those incidents and skims over others.
Organized Crime: An Inside Guide to the World's Most Success:
This is a very good book with a lot of facts and picturies.
