The World's Most Evil Gangs
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The World's Most Evil Gangs

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The World's Most Evil Gangs

About this book

Crime DOES pay. There's no denying it. And in pursuit of riches and power, those outside the law have always tended to band together - spawning today's murky, brutal world of organised crime.The origins of the archetypical gangster can be traced to 1920s America, when Prohibition turned street-corner hoodlums into rich and powerful businessmen. But today highly organised ferociously protective gangs are prevalent throughout the world. Despite their despicable methods, we are still fascinated by their labyrinthe networks. How did these gangs form? How do they wield their power? How do they maintain their secretive societies? And how do they evade the massive forces of law and order arrayed against them? Nigel Blundell, who is author of more than a dozen factual crime books, reveals the answers in The World's Most Evil Gangs.This book delves into the darkest depths of the underworld, from mobsters in America to Hells Angels in Germany to child armies in Africa…not forgetting the monsters on our own doorstep.

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Information

Publisher
John Blake
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781782198031
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CONTENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER 1: FROM THE GUTTER TO A TRILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS
  7. CHAPTER 2: MONSTERS WHO BECAME MOGULS OF THE MOB
  8. CHAPTER 3: ‘WISE GUYS’: OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF MOBSTERS
  9. CHAPTER 4: THE SYNDICATE SUMMIT THAT SHOOK AMERICA
  10. CHAPTER 5: HOW THE GANGSTER SQUAD NAILED THE RIMAN
  11. CHAPTER 6: CROONERS, CUBA, KENNEDY AND THE STAR-STRUCK DONS
  12. CHAPTER 7: DEATH OF GODFATHERS – ONE PEACEFULLY, ONE IN A HAIL OF BULLETS
  13. CHAPTER 8: UNION MOBSTERS WHO CONTROLLED THE LIVES OF MILLIONS
  14. CHAPTER 9: THE MAFIA’S NEMESIS … AND HOW TERRORISM TOOK THE HEAT OFF
  15. CHAPTER 10: AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN WARTIME VILLAINS
  16. CHAPTER 11: THE GANGLAND CURSE OF THE CRUEL KRAYS
  17. CHAPTER 12: THE TERRIBLE RETRIBUTION OF THE TORTURE GANG
  18. CHAPTER 13: ‘ONE DARE TOUCH US – WE’VE MORE GUNS THAN THE POLICE’
  19. CHAPTER 14: A CHUBBY MOBSTER’S MURDEROUS MAYHEM
  20. CHAPTER 15: ‘BIKIES’ RIDE OUT… INTO AN ALL-OUT WAR
  21. CHAPTER 16: TATTOOED AND TERRIFYING: THE KIWI CRIME WAVE
  22. CHAPTER 17: BLATANT PUBLIC FACE OF JAPAN’S UNDERWORLD
  23. CHAPTER 18: THE TRIADS A CHINESE MULT – BILLION POUND TAKE-AWAY
  24. CHAPTER 19: OLYMPIAN TASK FOR SHANTY TOWN GANGBUSTERS
  25. CHAPTER 20: THE MOBSTERS WHO MAKE MILLIONS OUT OF THE ‘SLUMDOG’ KIDS
  26. CHAPTER 21: THE CRUSHING OF COLOMBIA’S WARRING DRUG CARTELS
  27. CHAPTER 22: THE COST OF A SIX-YEAR WAR ON DRUGS… ‘EXTRAORDINARY VIOLENCE’
  28. CHAPTER 23: HORRIFIC HUMAN SACRIFICES OF THE VOODOO KILLERS
  29. CHAPTER 24: ‘DEVIL’S CHILDREN’ – DRIVEN TO KILL BY A MESSIANIC MADMAN
  30. CHAPTER 25: SUPER-CROOKS WHO CARVED UP AN ENTIRE COUNTRY
  31. CHAPTER 26: EUROPE IN CRISIS? NO, IT’S A BOOM TIME FOR CRIME!
  32. CHAPTER 27: THE ROOTS OF EVIL… AND WHY THERE IS NEVER ‘A HAPPY ENDING’
  33. CHAPTER 28: ’NDRANGHETA – TENTACLES OF THE ‘NEW’ MAFIA MONSTERS
  34. Plates
  35. About the Author
  36. Also by Nigel Blundell
  37. Copyright