Peter Maas

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia

Underboss

The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought -- and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.

Serpico

On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend upon one man, U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen -- an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist, and man of action. In this thrilling true narrative, prize-winning author Peter Maas brings us in the vivid detail a moment-by-moment account of the disaster and the man at its center. Could he actually pluck those men from a watery grave? Or had all his pioneering work been in vain?

The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

The Terrible Hours

Frank Serpico non è un poliziotto qualunque. Conoscendo la sua passione per l'opera e per il balletto sarebbe difficile immaginare il suo lavoro. Senza considerare il suo abbigliamento trasandato o i suoi animali domestici: un cane pastore, un topolino bianco e un pappagallo del Guatemala. Eppure non sono queste cose che lo rendono diverso dagli altri agenti del New York Police Department. Perché in un ambiente dove, a dispetto delle divise e dei distintivi, un codice omertoso favorisce i corrotti a discapito degli onesti, Serpico sarà costretto a pagare in prima persona il suo rifiuto di assoggettarsi al codice del silenzio che consente a molti colleghi di fare affari con delinquenti di ogni genere. Tratto da una storia vera, interpretata sul grande schermo da un immenso Al Pacino, Serpico è il ritratto crudo e commovente di un uomo lasciato solo di fronte all'arbitrio dei violenti. Un eroe moderno costretto a rischiare la vita nel nome della giustizia e della verità.

The First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crimefrom the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers -- and where the bodies were buried -- Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime figures. The rest is history. Never again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi's name would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning exposÉ. broke the back of America's Cosa Nostra and stands I today as the classic about America's Mob, a fascinat ing tale of power and terror, big money, crime ... and murder.

The Valachi Papers

From the author of the bestsellers "The Terrible Hours" and "Underboss" comes this fan favorite, unavailable since 1999. Maas tells an explosive story of the relationship between a father and son that stretches from the horrors of Northern Ireland to the savage streets of New York City. Soon to be a made-for-television film airing on NBC. (May)

Father & Son

Chronicles Gypsy life in the United States today, centering on the still unresolved struggle for leadership between Steve Tene, grandson of the late King Tene Bimbo, and his embittered, vengeful father.

King of the Gypsies

Drawn by the anger and loyalties learned at a grandfather's knee, second generation Irish-American Jamie McGuire has vanished into a world of explosive secrets and brutal betrayals. Now Jamie's father, Michael -- an advertising executive with no allegiance to any cause -- must rescue his lost son from a violent place where revolution is the faith and freedom means death. But it may already be too late, for Jamie has been chosen to play two indispensable roles in a bloody, long-running international drama: scapegoat...and martyr.

Father and Son

Describes the criminal career of Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, who was second in command in the Gambino organized-crime family, and whose testimony helped convict mob leader John Gotti

El Segundo De John Gotti

Mi Vida En LA Mafia

The bestselling author of "Serpico" reveals the full, true-life story of Edwin P. Wilson, the rogue CIA agent whose far-reaching corruption reached deep into the sensitive corridors of America's intelligence community.

Manhunt

Legacy of a Mother's Murder

In a Child's Name

In the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames systematically and cold bloodedly sent a dozen of the US's best agents to their death, betraying them to the Soviets for more than two million dollars. This is the story of how he was finally caught.

Inside Story of the FBI's Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spy

Killer Spy

Recounts the experiences of Marie Ragghianti--former beauty queen, devout Catholic, and divorced working mother--and her courageous fight, in the face of disgrace and peril, against deep-seated political corruption in Tennessee

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