I just finished "Mobster In Our Midst" by William Ouseley. It's about the rise and fall of the Nicholas Civella and the Kansas City crime family. It was a very good book and detailed a lot of scam, murders, political corruption of the Kansas city crime family as well as his involvement in the Vegas skims an a lot more.

I have read a lot of these books spoken of, lot's of good reads, most recent I have read, The butcher (Tommy Pitera) Gaspipe(Casso) The last GodFather(Massino) jeesh so many to list..


A cool book I read is a book I found at my library its huge its about 1k pages I belive it was called "The FBI and Bureau of Narcotics Files" it was just 1k pages of Mugshots of all Mafioso's involved with the trafficking of Narcotics, was a very cool book, unlike anything else, just non stop Mugshots with D.O.B's, place of birth, Residence, place of Death, Associates, Aliases, Family and Modus Operandi, fun book too read, lots of CRAZY people..

Guys, if you could recommend me books about:
1) LCN in California,
2) LCN activities in this day and age,
that would be great.

Mobsters, Unions, and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement. By James B. Jacobs.

has anyone read this book?can you recommend it?

Read through the thread i'm sure someone reviews it.

Anyone read Gomorrah? Good read?

I liked it, some people say hey think Saviano tends to exaggerate the importance of the camorra on the world-wide scale (don't really know if they are right or not), but the descriptions of what's going on in Italy are rather good. At least, if they threatened to kill him after what he wrote, he must have written the right thing.

Bump.

''Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia'' the book is about both things actually. its about kenny gallo, he was active in organized crime in california and was connected to the california family. later he gets involved with the colombos in new york. finally he rats out most of his associates.

Yeah, very good read. I know much about the Camorra thanks to his book. In fact, his book was one of the reasons I started taking a serious look into Organized crime. Before that I was just about playing GTA and other mafia related games, My knowledge went from just a bunch of mobsters killing each other and now has expanded dramatically.

Antonio does it talk about how they infiltrated every industry there and talk about mob wars? that kind of thing.

Awesome, just what I was looking for.

Read the firt 60 pages of Gomorrah, quite difficult to read and understand I think.

The Five Families. Yes, good book, lottsa facts that may have passed by most Americans. I found mine at the Library.

McMafia by Misha Glenny, published 2009, excellent read on global crime.

Just got Five Families this morning, Can't wait to read it (eventually) after gomorrah!

for everyone who doesnt have The Mafia Encyclopedia

http://www.scribd.com/doc/98453676/The-Mafia-Encyclopedia#fullscreen

thanks for that, great for a rainy day!

Thanks alot mate this was actually on my to buy list guess there's no point now.

Has anyone read

Smaldone by Kreck
Sam the Plumber by Zeiger
Mafia and the Machine by Hayde
or The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia by Porello?

I've got a pretty sizable collection of books on the mob, but I've never been able to come across these and was curious about them before buying.

The next book I'm buying is Blood and Honor - I've heard nothing but good things about it.

Did the Leonetti book get released yet?

nope.release date is Nov 27, 2012

I agree with the post about Lansky having fun with Uri Dan, there's no way Lansky would be 100% honest about what he did. He always thought ahead and I'm sure he knew that there would be people reading the book such as law enforcement, other gangsters...etc.

Anyone interested in Lansky and his adventure in Cube, please read Havana Nocturne by T.J. English. Great book.

Yeh? Be my next book after finishing five families. How many pages is it?

Takedown: Fall of the Last Mafia Empire is a terrific book. Lot of recorded conversations and is great. Also when Michael Cookie D'Urso releases his book that I feel like will be a good read.

There were some requests for books on the Milwaukee Mafia some time ago. Just recently out is Gavin Schmitt´s "Milwaukee Mafia (Images of America)". I haven´t had the opportunity as yet to get my hands on it but I know for sure that the book is well researched and contains a lot of stuff on the Balistrieris, a Mafia family we don´t have that much info on...til now.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738594431/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_BtXFqb1V29C67

Anyone read that book on Milwaukee? I'd be interested to hear some perspectives.

I can't find anything at all on internet about D'Urso and a book, are you sure he has one coming out?

^^I havent heard anything about that book either.

i wish Al D'Arco or Sal Vitale would write something up.