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Larry Formato; Edited by Sean Sanbeg; Designed by Carson Parks
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An unbelievable true-life story about one man's rise from poverty
to extreme wealth. How much money do you want to make a year?
Whatever your answer is, it's not enough. Lorenzo "Larry" Formato
began this wild ride in the early 70's and stayed on top for almost
two decades. Relive his life experiences through his own words as
he takes you on a journey reminiscent of Godfather, Wall Street,
and Boiler Room. Now, through his own eyes, witness what really
went on with the penny stock market and the power he gained from
the Mafia. Look into a world where only Formato can take you, as he
talks about Frank Sinatra, Jilly Rizzo, the music industry and some
of Hollywood's biggest stars, the total manipulation of the Penny
Stock Market and the role the Mafia played in it. "This book is
based on my experiences and memories, along with my complete
congressional testimony. My testimony before Congress led to the
Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990 and was hailed as the most important
stock reform legislation passed since 1933." Larry Formato
This groundbreaking book investigates the emergence and evolution
of the organ trade across North Africa and Europe. Sean Columb
illuminates the voices and perspectives of organ sellers and
brokers to demonstrate how crime and immigration controls produce
circumstances where the business of selling organs has become a
feature of economic survival. Drawing on the experiences of African
migrants, Trading Life brings together five years of fieldwork
charting the development of the organ trade from an informal
economic activity into a structured criminal network operating
within and between Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, and Europe.
Ground-level analysis provides new insight into the operation of
organ trading networks and the impact of current legal and policy
measures in response to the organ trade. Columb reveals how
investing financial and administrative resources into law
enforcement and border securitization at the expense of social
services has led to the convergence of illicit smuggling and organ
trading networks and the development of organized crime. Trading
Life delivers a powerful and grounded analysis of how economic
pressures and the demands of survival force people into
exploitative arrangements, like selling a kidney, that they would
otherwise avoid. This fascinating and accessible book is a
must-read for anyone interested in migration, organized crime, and
exploitation.
The Irish King of Winter Hill is the story of the rise and fall
James J. Buddy McLean, from his humble beginnings as a hardworking
truck driver in Boston, to leading the original and now infamous
Winter Hill Gang, to his untimely murder in 1965. He will best be
remembered for eliminating the McLaughlin Gang from Charlestown
during the 1960s McLean-McLaughlin Irish gang war. Buddy, who
worked on the Boston docks in the late 1950s and early 1960s with
his father's union card, was also a teamster from Local No. 25.
This was a time when gangsters ran the docks. This story is written
by Michael McLean, who says, I have read all the books and the
information on the Internet about my father, and most of it is
wrong. After talking to his closest friends, I decided I would set
the record straight. About the Author: Michael McLean grew up in
Somerville, Massachusetts, and now lives in South Boston. Most of
this book takes place in Somerville. The first-time author works on
the docks using his father's union card, which has now been handed
down for three generations. Publisher's website: http:
//sbprabooks.com/MichaelMcLean
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping true story of violence,
double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover,
exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history.
Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon, 'Whitey' Bulger, godfather of
the Irish Mob, waits for an old school buddy. Since they last met,
Little John Connolly has become a high-ranking FBI agent. Connolly
needs an informant - someone with a good view of Boston's dark
side. Whitey needs certain priority treatment. Soon the die is
cast.
COSA NOSTRA is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the
world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal
fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was
founded one hundred and forty years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood,
the Honoured Society, and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have
changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the
same. Now, for the first time, COSA NOSTRA reconstructs the
complete history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins to the
present day, from the lemon groves and sulphur mines of Sicily, to
the streets of Manhattan. COSA NOSTRA is a definitive history, rich
in atmosphere, and with the narrative pace of the best detective
fiction, and has been updated to make it the most vital
contemporary account of the mafia ever published. The mob genre has
finally grown up.
A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells
the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head
of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire
held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that
would only end with his death. In an intense, up-close account,
award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before
revealed about the covert sixteen-month manhunt that was led by US
Special Forces and intelligence services. With unprecedented access
to important players - including Colombian president Cisar Gaviria
and the incorruptible head of the special police unit that pursued
Escobar, Colonel Hugo Martinez - as well as top-secret documents
and transcripts of Escobar's intercepted phone conversations,
Bowden has produced a gripping narrative that is a stark portrayal
of rough justice in the real world.
Some of the most important international security threats stem from
terror groups, criminal enterprises, and other violent non-state
actors (VNSAs). Because these groups are often structured as
complex, dark networks, analysts have begun to use network science
to study them. However, standard network tools were originally
developed to examine companies, friendship groups, and other
transparent networks. The inherently clandestine nature of dark
networks dictates that conventional analytical tools do not always
apply. Data on dark networks is incomplete, inaccurate, and often
just difficult to find. Moreover, dark networks are often organized
to undertake fundamentally different tasks than transparent
networks, so resources and information may follow different paths
through these two types of organizations. Given the distinctive
characteristics of dark networks, unique tools and methods are
needed to understand these structures. Illuminating Dark Networks
explores the state of the art in methods to study and understand
dark networks.
He's inside her home. Successful novelist Mia is being stalked.
Photos of her and her four-year-old daughter arrive in untraceable
emails that demand Mia perform various tasks or else . . .
Terrified, Mia tries to escape, but the killer follows her all the
way to Italy. In desperation, she returns home, but nowhere is
safe. Meanwhile, DI Gravel is investigating the murder of three
women. The detective's last case pushed him to new extremes. Now
with his health failing and his career at an end, what lengths will
Gravel go to in order to catch a vicious killer? Once you've
crossed the line, can you ever turn back? This is the fourth book
in the dark, edge-of-your-seat Carmarthen Crime thriller series set
in the stunning West Wales countryside. *Previously published as
Every Move You Make*
How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members,
conduct legal and illegal business, and use violence? Why do they
establish such a complex mix of rituals, rules, and codes of
conduct? And how do they differ? Why do some mafias commit many
more murders than others? This book makes sense of mafias as
organizations, via a collative analysis of historical accounts,
official data, investigative sources, and interviews. Catino
presents a comparative study of seven mafias around the world, from
three Italian mafias to the American Cosa Nostra, Japanese Yakuza,
Chinese Triads, and Russian mafia. He identifies the organizational
architecture that characterizes these criminal groups, and relates
different organizational models to the use of violence.
Furthermore, he advances a theory on the specific functionality of
mafia rules and discusses the major organizational dilemmas that
mafias face. This book shows that understanding the organizational
logic of mafias is an indispensable step in confronting them.
'Brilliant seaside noir, the action play[s] out at cracking pace in
the rough and seedy resort' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Be prepared to
immerse yourself in Great Yarmouth's murky underworld with this
great thriller' Five Stars, The Sun - 'Book of the Week' For the
first time in years, Tatiana Goodwin feels in control. She has
survived events which would make most people give up and go into
hiding. Yet Tati is still here, surrounded by her loyal family and
even daring to expand the Goodwin empire. But when her son Ben gets
kidnapped by a rival gang and the blame lies with her, the ghosts
of Tati's past catch up and she begins to crumble. Now, it is down
to the ever-loyal Frank to do everything he can to get Ben back and
keep the family together. Frank has been in this business for a
long time - he knows who to confide in and who will give up the
information he so desperately needs. But what he doesn't realise is
that there is a new threat in town, and all those old trusted
sources are answering to a different power. Tati needs to wake up
fast to the fact that it is not just their empire on the line -
their lives are at serious risk, and only a heartbreaking sacrifice
can save them. More praise for the series so far: 'The Godfather in
Great Yarmouth' Ian Rankin 'An atmospheric and riveting tale'
Guardian * * * * * The Sun 'Harry Brett writes a fun plot with
witty elegance' The Times 'Fearsomely good' Nicci French 'A 21st
century Long Good Friday' Tony Parsons 'Taut and atmospheric' Eva
Dolan 'Gripping, compelling, original crime drama' Dreda Say
Mitchell 'Darkly brooding and atmospheric' M.J. McGrath 'Time to
Win redraws the landscape of British noir' Stav Sherez 'A tour de
force' William Ryan 'I loved Time to Win' Julia Crouch 'Gritty and
stark' Sunday Mirror
'I thoroughly enjoyed this intriguing mystery set in a beautiful
location with deliciously menacing undercurrents.' Frances Evesham
It was meant to be a safe place to start again...In need of an
escape from her failing marriage, Nia agrees to house-sit her
aunt's cottage on the Isle of Wight. She feels sure the cosy close
in a quaint harbour town will be a safe place to hide and figure
out what to do next. But things are not all as they seem in the
close, and the neighbours who welcome her with open arms, are
keeping secrets. When Nia finds the body of one of her new friends
lying on the beach, she feels sickeningly sure that the killer is
dangerously near to home. Who killed her friend and why did she
have to die? And if Nia discovers the answers she's looking for, is
she next on their hit list? Good neighbours may become good
friends, but they can also make deadly enemies... Mary Grand's
intricate psychological mysteries set on the Isle of Wight are
perfect for fans of Claire Douglas, Lucy Foley, Agatha Christie and
The Isle of Wight Murders. What readers are saying about Mary
Grand: 'Truly a great puzzler with a superb ending! I HIGHLY
Recommend!!!' 'Wow I'm so so impressed it had me gripped start to
finish and I couldn't put it down. I completed within 1 night and
such a page turner' 'So many twists and turns to keep the reader
guessing to the very end. An excellent read.' 'Brilliant if you
love psychological thrillers like me.' 'A sinister "whodunit" that
is not your typical police procedural.'
Law today is incomplete, inaccessible, unclear, underdeveloped, and
often perplexing to those whom it affects. In The Legal
Singularity, Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie argue that the
proliferation of artificial intelligence-enabled technology - and
specifically the advent of legal prediction - is on the verge of
radically reconfiguring the law, our institutions, and our society
for the better. Revealing the ways in which our legal institutions
underperform and are expensive to administer, the book highlights
the negative social consequences associated with our legal status
quo. Given the infirmities of the current state of the law and our
legal institutions, the silver lining is that there is ample room
for improvement. With concerted action, technology can help us to
ameliorate the law and our legal institutions. Inspired in part by
the concept of the "technological singularity," The Legal
Singularity presents a future state in which technology facilitates
the functional "completeness" of law, where the law is at once
extraordinarily more complex in its specification than it is today,
and yet operationally vastly more knowable, fairer, and clearer for
its subjects. Aidid and Alarie describe the changes that will
culminate in the legal singularity and explore the implications for
the law and its institutions.
Two siblings, both missing for 20 years turn up within one day of
each other. One dead. One alive.It was an ordinary school day, the
day I lost my little brother. One moment he was on the roundabout
and then was gone. Gone. Missing. They all blamed me. I was in
charge. Even though I was only ten years old. They sent me away.
The hurt, the shame, the questions. The not knowing. I tried to
move on. It's been nineteen years in exile and now somebody wants
me back. Someone with a dark secret. They hold the keys, they know
the truth. So, I need to return to the Welsh village of my
childhood to find out who, because I have a secret, too... I did
something bad. Diane Saxon's standalone thriller is sure to plunge
you into the dark world of secrets and lies. 'An intensely dark
thriller.' Ross Greenwood 'Packed full of secrets and lies, and in
a town filled with an unsettling atmosphere Saxon succeeds in
putting the 'creep' in creepy' ' Valerie Keogh 'Gripping... I
couldn't put it down.' Gemma Rogers 'A complex, dark and disturbing
thriller, full of intrigue, toxic relationships and jaw dropping
twists 5*' Alex Stone
In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has resulted in
the buying and selling of human beings. Poverty, social
instability, lawlessness, gender biases, and ethnic hostility have
entrapped millions in the world of modern day slavery, with the
result that human trafficking is one of the fastest growing
criminal industries in the world. Every year, men, women, and
children from across the globe are transported within or across
borders for the purpose of forced labor and sexual exploitation.
Despite the plethora of journalistic articles written on human
trafficking there is a need for more rigorous academic analysis of
the phenomenon. Although groups from many different ideologies have
embraced policies to end human trafficking, there are still many
gaps and unanswered questions, particularly with regard to the
amount of, and nature of the phenomenon. This book provides an
insight into the complexity of human trafficking by addressing both
how the scope of globalization impacts the sex industry and forced
labor, and how vulnerability is a growing cause of human
trafficking, affecting traditional diasporic and migratory
patterns. This book was originally published as a special issue of
the Journal of Intercultural Studies.
This book takes students on a guided tour of the gang phenomenon
through history, as well as current representations of gangs in
literature and media. It includes: - A detailed global overview of
gang culture, covering, amongst others, Glasgow, Chicago, Hong
Kong, and Shanghai - A chapter on researching gangs which covers
quantitative and qualitative methods - Extra chapter features such
as key terms, chapter overviews, study questions and further
reading suggestions. Alistair Fraser brings together
gang-literature and critical perspectives in a refreshingly new
way, exploring 'gangs' as a social group with a long and
fascinating history.
An astonishing and revelatory memoir by two women who escaped the
glamorous yet deadly international drug trade. Mia Flores and
Olivia Flores live under assumed names. To their neighbours, they
are typical single mothers, their days filled with school runs and
PTA meetings. But Olivia and Mia are anything but ordinary. They
live in fear, hiding from a past that included wealth beyond their
wildest dreams but also more danger than they ever could have
imagined. Mia and Olivia are married to the highest level American
drug traffickers ever to become US informants, Chicago-born twin
brothers Margarito and Pedro Flores. These men worked with - and
then brought down - dozens of high-level members of the Mexican
cartels, most significantly notorious kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo'
Guzman. The brothers and their wives had everything money could buy
- luxury cars, huge houses and expensive jewellery - but came to
understand that the vast wealth that accompanied cartel life came
with the ever-present threat of kidnapping, death or imprisonment.
Choosing their families over money, they decided to give it all up
and cooperate with the US government. Now, from behind the cloak of
witness protection, Olivia and Mia have come forward for the first
time to tell the full story of their family's decision to risk
everything and seek redemption. Cartel Wives is a love story, an
insider's look into a terrifying but high-flying modern-day drug
empire and, finally, the story of a major federal government
operation to bring down one of the most feared men in the world.
Like the never-ending War on Terror, the drugs war is a
multi-billion-dollar industry that won't go down without a fight.
Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The War on Drugs has been
official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and
much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy,
according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct
results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme
violence in different parts of the world, the backing of
dictatorships, and surging drug addiction globally. And now the
Trump administration is unleashing diplomatic and military forces
against any softening of the conflict. Pills, Powder, and Smoke
investigates the individuals, officials, activists, victims, DEA
agents, and traffickers caught up in this deadly war. Travelling
through the UK, the US, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines, and
Guinea-Bissau, Loewenstein uncovers the secrets of the drug war,
why it's so hard to end, and who is really profiting from it. In
reporting on the frontlines across the globe - from the streets of
London's King's Cross to the killing fields of Central America to
major cocaine transit routes in West Africa - Loewenstein reveals
how the War on Drugs has become the most deadly war in modern
times.
Digital Pirates examines the unauthorized creation, distribution,
and consumption of movies and music in Brazil. Alexander Sebastian
Dent offers a new definition of piracy as indispensable to current
capitalism alongside increasing global enforcement of intellectual
property (IP). Complex and capricious laws might prohibit it, but
piracy remains a core activity of the twenty-first century.
Combining the tools of linguistic and cultural anthropology with
models from media studies and political economy, Digital Pirates
reveals how the dynamics of IP and piracy serve as strategies for
managing the gaps between texts-in this case, digital content.
Dent's analysis includes his fieldwork in and around Sao Paulo with
pirates, musicians, filmmakers, police, salesmen, technicians,
policymakers, politicians, activists, and consumers. Rather than
argue for rigid positions, he suggests that Brazilians are pulled
in multiple directions according to the injunctions of
international governance, localized pleasure, magical consumption,
and economic efficiency. Through its novel theorization of "digital
textuality," this book offers crucial insights into the qualities
of today's mediascape as well as the particularized political and
cultural norms that govern it. The book also shows how twenty-first
century capitalism generates piracy and its enforcement
simultaneously, while producing fraught consumer experiences in
Latin America and beyond.
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