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Explores the extraordinary reach of Japan's Mafia, discussing their feudal origins as bands of medieval outlaws to their emergence as billion-dollar investors in real estate, big business, art, and more.

Presents a history of the drug cartels in Mexico, discussing how Mexico became the base for the mega-cartels of Latin America.

Re-creates the rise and fall of the drug dealers who dominated Queens in the 1980s and explores how those figures have be idealized by hip-hop artists.

Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries on the gangs and gangsters, from Jesse James to Al Capone and Sonny Barger, that have captivated the public and achieved the status of folk antiheros, covering bank robbers, Mafia members, drug kingpins, Western outlaws, and more.

In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.

Spotlights the lives of prominent mobsters and organized-crime syndicates from the early twentieth century to the present, and includes Al Capone, "Lucky" Luciano, the Purple Gang, the Russian Mafia, and more.

Brief text, sidebars, labeled illustrations, and humorous cartoons depict the life of a gangster in Chicago during the 1920s.

U.S. Marshal Roland Larson, having lived with regret ever since losing contact with Hope Stevens, a government witness against the Romero crime family, embarks on a desperate search for Stevens who has disappeared after learning the Romeros have gotten hold of the master list of people in the witness protection program and are auctioning off names to the highest bidders.

Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Columbian city.

California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fianc?, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.

The life of one of America's most infamous and powerful gangsters serves as a model for understanding gangster culture.

While Frank and Joe Hardy are working at their new construction jobs, they discover a group of criminals who want to sabotage the building the boys are working on, and now they have to stop them before someone gets killed.

The Hardy Boys find themselves on their own in France, fighting the largest organized crime ring in the world.

Presents a series of twenty-four articles written between 1947 and 1948 by Malcolm Johnson, reporter for the New York Sun, that described the corruption of the unions that ran New York's waterfront district.