
Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. He was the biographer of Frank Serpico, a New York City Police officer who testified against police corruption. He is also the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Underboss, about the life and times of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano. His other notable bestsellers include The Valachi Papers, Manhunt, and In a Child's Name, recipient of the 1991 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book. The Valachi Papers, which told the story of Mafia turncoat Joseph Valachi, is widely considered to be a seminal work, as it spawned an entire genre of books written by or about former Mafiosi. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.
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 la
"When the elephants fight, it's the ants that get hurt."The elephants in this predictable but nonetheless gripping Maas-market melodrama are the Mafia on one side and the Justice Dept. on the other; and caught in between is Maas' not-very-likable hero, an ant named Richie Flynn. Poor N.Y. Irish kid Richie--he had one shining hour a few years back in pro ball before his knee got wrecked
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Weaving a tangled web of conspiracy and deceit, the sinister Deng, a Hong Kong crime lord posing as a wealthy businessman, plans to transfer the Chinese crime syndicate to the United States with a huge shipment of "China White" heroin. By the author of Serpico. 60,000 first printing.
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
THE CLASSIC TRUE STORY OF THE COP WHO COULDN'T BE BOUGHT "I don't think anyone can come away from Serpico without admiration for one man's lonely integrity." — New York Times With an Afterword by Frank Serpico 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,
Relates the story of the brutal murder of a young wife by her psychopathic husband and how it sparked a nasty custody battle over the couple's infant son between the murdered woman's sister and the killer's parents
"Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating. . . . The result is a terrific and important book. . . . It's important because it is a morality play on the subject of loyalty. To whom are you loyal, and from who should you be able to expect loyalty?" — New York Times Book Review Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect. In telling Gravano's sto
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.
Traces the heroic efforts of a young Assistant U.S. Attorney to organize a case against, and engineer the capture of, renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson, whose malevolent machinations reached far into the intelligence establishment. Reprint.
On the eve of World War II, the "Squalus," America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of 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
The First Inside Account of the MafiaIn 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 crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With
This is the story of a man and a ship. He was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy but the ship was not his command. Yet on May 23, 1939, it seemed as if all this man’s vision, doggedness and life’s work had been shaped directly toward that place and that moment when the submarine “Squalus” fell 243 feet to the bottom of the sea, trapping fifty-nine men within her. He was Charles Bowers Momsen,
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Barcelona. 22 cm. 280 p. lám. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Colección 'Colección "El Documento Vivo". Grandes Reportajes'. Maas, Peter 1929-2001. Traducción, Andrés Bosch. Valachi, Joseph. Mafia. Estados Unidos. Bosch, Andrés. 1926-1984 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.
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Measures 10 1/4" x 13 1/4"too large to scan in its entirety, great coffee-table magazine, Shipped Media Mail unless Expedited Selected, President Lyndon B Johnson being mobbed by citizens of El Paso Texas, In defense of Naked Ladies (Speaking Out) by Russell Baker, The Waiting Game, The Johnson Touch The President's gleaming jet swoops out of the sky and rolls gently to a halt in front of the wild
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Peter Maass-Land of the Oligarchs, John Hodgman-Harry Potter for Grown Ups, Lynn Hirschberg-Michael Mann Remakes Masculinity ...