Once the Mafia ruled uncontested over the American criminal underworld. Now, however, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, Mexican, Cuban, Arabic, Black, and other ethnic gangs have moved in, making organized crime more dangerous--and more lucrative--than ever before. This book introduces readers to this frightening world and the colorful criminals who populate it. 20 photos.
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Once the Mafia ruled uncontested over the American criminal underworld. Now, however, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, Mexican, Cuban, Arabic, Black, and other ethnic gangs have moved in, making organized crime more dangerous--and more lucrative--than ever before. This book introduces readers to this frightening world and the colorful criminals who populate it. 20 photos.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. viii, 328pp, b/w photos, notes, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. The book tells the story of 'the blood-drenched 1980s when the crack wars introduced an anarchy that had not been seen in the underworld since before Prohibition. The author explains the lucrative operations that the ethnic crime groups conducted in the 1990s. While still operating traditional rackets like gambling, loansharking and extortion, they also committed sophisticated white-collar crime, victimizing an unsuspecting public. '
