The inside story of how the FBI cracked the Chicago Mob, featuring the kind of insights into tradecraft that made Peter Wright's Spycatcher a bestseller. Roemer's career as the FBI's top mob counterintelligence agent promises to become a classic of law-enforcement literature. Photos.
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The inside story of how the FBI cracked the Chicago Mob, featuring the kind of insights into tradecraft that made Peter Wright's Spycatcher a bestseller. Roemer's career as the FBI's top mob counterintelligence agent promises to become a classic of law-enforcement literature. Photos.
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Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Previous Owner Markings (461 003 Neatly Inked to First Page of Front Matter); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. The Inside Story of How the FBI Cracked the Chicago Mob by the Agent Who Led the Attack. CONTENTS: Introduction 1 Chicago Ambush in California 2 Before the Bureau 3 Early Days in the FBI 4 The Top Hoodlum Program 5 To Grips with Gussie Alex 6 Face-to-Face with Gussie Alex 7 Stumbling and Bumbling 8 the Family Pact (Mistresses Don't Count) 9 Mad Sam 10 Penetration! 11 Early Informants 12 "Little Al" Talks 13 The Alderman Who Couldn't Be Embarrassed in This Town By the FBI 14 The Mob Coexists in Dick Daley's Chicago 15 The Commission 16 Las Vegas--"Vegmon" 17 A Different Mad Sam 18 Another Penetration 19 Margaret and Gus 20 Hump 21 Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and the Rat Pack 22 The First Ward 23 Bobby Kennedy 24 Dick Cain 25 Cain Comes Over, and Then Goes Over 26 "Winning and Dining on the Mo'"; Changes in the Office 27 Lockstep 28 Giancana Beats the FBI 29 The Killers 30 "Retribution in Kind" 31 Giancana Puts Himself in Jail 32 A Typical Day in the Life of a Mob Leader 33 Bernie Glickman 34 The Midnight Walk 35 We Get Them But They Get Ours 36 Head Busting, in More Ways Than One 37 My Friends 38 Bye-Bye to Momo 39 Good-Bye Chicago FBI 40 Good-Bye Chicago Mob 41 Hello Tucson; Hello Bonanno 42 Good-Bye to the BGI But Not to the Mob; Epilogue; Glossary; Index. SYNOPSIS: In the Fifties, he was an agent for J. Edgar Hoover's "Top hoodlum Program". He masterminded the first electronic surveillance of a Mafia headquarters. Sam Giancana put a $100, 000 contract on his life. Now, Bill Roemer, the FBI crime expert who's had more face-to-face confrontations with mobsters than anyone in law enforcement history, tells his electrifying life story. From his key role in the lives of John and Robert Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Phyllis McGuire, and Marilyn Monroe, to the run ins with Anthony "Tony Batters" Accardo, Murray "The Camel" Humphreys and Jackie Cerone that made him the nemesis of the Chicago mob, here is a chillingly authentic account that ranks as one of the finest chronicles in true crime. William F. Roemer, Jr., earned a law degree from Notre Dame University after receiving his undergraduate degree there and serving a stint in the Marines. After his retirement from the FBI in 1980, he opened an investigative agency specializing in organized-crime related issues. He is a consultant for the Chicago Crime Commission and has testified before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation regarding the history of the Mob.