Crime Incorporated

by George Carpozi (Author), George Carpozi (Author), William Balsamo (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $12.18

  100 years ago, control of New York's waterfronts was seized by a bunch of Italian immigrants, the Black Hand . Today that group is called the Mafia. This book is a history of the Mob's bloody century of crime. The authors trace the Mafia's savage rise and investigate its most notorious leaders - Capone, Lucky Luciano and Thomas Luchese. They go behind the headlines of Rudolph Giuliani's pursuit of the Mob, the famous Pizza connection and Commission trials to reveal the Mafia's control over American daily life.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.35

  This book traces the Mafia's beginnings from an underground patriotic society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, through the group of Italian immigrants - the Black Hand - who savagely tore control of New York's waterfronts away from Irish racketeers, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America. Drawing on previously unavailable information and nearly two decades of research, William Balsamo - great-nephew of the first godfather - and George Carpozi Jr. trace the Black Hand's coalescence into an organisation whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic and into a presidential administration. And they go behind the headlines to reveal with chilling clarity the true extent of the Mafia's influence today.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $19.41

  Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up six hundred years ago in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and America, The Mafia: The First 100 Years tells the gripping story of the most mythical and misunderstood criminal organisation. How did the Mob evolve from a gang of bumbling killers into the smooth-running international 'corporation' of today? Drawing on nearly two decades of research, William Balsamo - great-nephew of the original godfather - and George Carpozi Jr. reveal the Mafia's coalescence into an organisation whose insidious influence reached across the Atlantic and into a presidential administration. Delving behind the headlines to uncover the true extent of the Mafia's influence, The Mafia: The First 100 Years reads like the most compelling crime fiction, yet is the terrifying, deadly truth.