Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba... and Then Lost It to the Revolution (Häftad)
avT. J. English
ISBN: 9780061712746 - UTGIVEN: 2009-06To underworld kingpins Meyer Lansky and Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Cuba was the greatest hope for the future of American organized crime in the post-Prohibition years. In the 1950s, the Mob--with the corrupt, repressive government of brutal Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in its pocket--owned Havana'[...]
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge (Häftad)
avT. J. English
ISBN: 9780061824586 - UTGIVEN: 201203A finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact CrimeOn August 28, 1963--the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial--two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. The so-called Career Girls Murders case sent ripples of fear througho[...]
The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob (Häftad)
avT. J. English
ISBN: 9780312362843 - UTGIVEN: 200611Tracing sixty years of underworld history, this revised edition of the classic study of the "Westies" of Hell's Kitchen discusses their rise to power, brutal tactics, alliance with the Gambino crime family, and the investigation that led to their downfall, along with updated information on the curre[...]
Common Mistakes In English (Pocket)
avT.J. Fitikides
ISBN: 9780582344587 - UTGIVEN: 2000-03-22Focuses on typical student errors words which are confused or misused - and how to avoid them.
Whitey's Payback: And Other True Stories of Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge (Häftad)
avT. J. English
ISBN: 9781480411753 - UTGIVEN: 201305Sixteen stories of true crime from America's foremost authority on the underworld
James "Whitey" Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath--who also happened to be a secret FBI informant--his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty yea[...]
Havana Mob (Häftad)
avT. J. English
ISBN: 9781845962234 - UTGIVEN: 200809Throughout the 1950s, as the Cuban people laboured under a violently repressive regime, the mob-financed revelry in Havana never stopped. This book captures a unique chapter not only in the history of organised crime but also in the history of the United States.[...]
Maffian i Havanna : historien om hur maffian tog över Kuba men kastades ut av Castros revolutionärer (Inbunden)
avT. J. English
ISBN: 9789185703258 - UTGIVEN: 200810Havanna på 1950-talet - med dess musik, nattliv, maffiavälde och revolutionärer - har blivit en mytomspunnen tid som odödliggjorts i många romaner och filmer, från Hemingway och Graham Greene till Coppolas Gudfadern II.
Den amerikanske journalisten T. J. English bok Maffian i Havan[...]
