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  Conflicting Loyalties

  Aiden Gabor

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  A memoir of a double life as a Mafia enforcer and a DOJ informant taking down corrupt cops and politicians. 
  Aiden Gabor was still a teenager when Department of Justice agents approached him with an ultimatum: spend his life in prison for racketeering, embezzlement, extortion, and conspiracy to commit murder, or become an undercover agent. 
  Conflicting Loyalties is a sharp, honest memoir in three parts: the bloody life of a mob soldier from outside la famiglia; the death-defying, paranoid existence of an informant bringing down corrupt politicians and police departments from the inside; and unexpectedly finding peace late in life through the Baha’i faith while coping with an ALS diagnosis. 
  Conflicting Loyalties is a visceral tale of a man who gambles with his own life in order to save it, dodging his fate while searching for an identity, a father, and a family. It is for readers of Gianni Russo’s Hollywood Godfather, Joe Pistone’s classic Donnie Brasco, and anyone interested in mob life, police and political corruption, and finding peace after a life of violence.

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  The Case of the Autographed...

  Jack El-Hai

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  The true-crime saga of the intertwined lives of a Native spiritual leader and a prominent literary figure—and their shared work in their pursuit to right a tragic wrongful conviction.Silas John Edwards—a charismatic Apache medicine man—was known as a controversial figure on Apache reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, where white authorities determined to maintain control over reservation life. When his wife, Margaret, was brutally murdered in 1933, Silas John was tried and convicted—receiving a sentence of life in prison. The key piece of evidence against Silas John was a rock found near Margaret's body, scratched with his initials, “S. J. E."Were the scratched initials an attempt to frame a man whose independent path was deemed troublesome? Eighteen years into Silas John's sentence, the celebrated writer of the Perry Mason mysteries, Erle Stanley Gardner, received a desperate letter from the incarcerated medicine man. Gardner and Silas John met in prison and joined forces to reinvestigate the case. Under the auspices of Gardner's Court of Last Resort, an organization like today's Innocence Project that investigated cases of wrongful conviction, Gardner traveled through Arizona's varied reservation landscapes to hunt for clues.Together Silas John and Gardner attempted to unravel the flimsy evidence—including dubious footprint casts and questionable claims of Apache custom—to shatter the "cement silence" of prison and fight for the freedom of a historically important spiritual leader. The Case of the Autographed Corpse details a dramatic and little-known episode in American history and two men's unwavering commitment to the truth.

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  Poker Wars - Murder Mayhem and...

  Philip Guitar, Jim Martyka

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  Murder and mayhem, bullets and bombings, carnage andcorruption…and a whole lot of outlaws gambling for the highest stakes of all.Poker Wars tells the true story of the hitmen, bandits, card sharks, andmobsters who brought about the internationally successful World Series ofPoker.The World Series of Poker, the sport’s most popular and lucrative event, hadits inaugural event in 1970 and has since grown well beyond anything itsfounders ever imagined. Especially considering where it came from.Poker Wars chronicles the history of the dangerous key players and theviolent conflicts that brought the game from the dark Dallas underbelly to thebright lights of Las Vegas and turned it into the billion-dollar industry it istoday. Offering an in-depth exploration of the nearly inconceivable life stories ofthe sport’s pioneers—especially those of “The Cowboy,” Benny Binion, anilliterate horse trader turned gambling boss who was as quick tempered as hewas business savvy—Poker Wars is a thorough breakdown of the remarkablesequence of events that brought the card game into the national spotlight.With new insights, Guitar and Martyka offer a behind-the-scenes look into someof the most well-known conflicts in poker history, including Binion’s feud withHerbert Noble, an ambitious gambler who earned the nickname “The Cat” bysurviving several assassination attempts. They also present a comprehensivelook at poker forefathers like Titanic Thompson and Nick the Greek, as well asthe colorful personalities of the Texas Circuit like Johnny Moss and DoyleBrunson, who upped the ante by introducing a brand-new variant of thegame. At once an exposé of the darker side of the tournament’s early legacy and itsconsequences and a wild, colorful, outlandish tale, Poker Wars is atrue crime joyride.

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  Gangster No1 - The Freddie...

  Bernard O'Mahoney

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  To Britain’s criminal underworld, Freddie Foreman is the Godfather and his name instils more fear than any other. Rightly or wrongly, he has been attached to almost every unsolved gangland murder in London over the last 50 years and remains one of the most iconic and well respected men of his generation. 
  Born Frederick Foreman in 1932, young Fred was on trial for his first crime at just 16 years of age which paved the way towards a prolific criminal career. He went on to become a notorious crime boss who ruthlessly upheld the underworld code of conduct, whatever it took. 
  Here, Foreman talks about how his war-time childhood moulded him into the man he became and reveals the audacious details of the heists, the double crossings, the shootouts, the murders, the betrayals and ultimately, what made him GANGSTER NO. 1.

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  The Deadly Path - How Operation...

  Peter J. Forcelli, Keelin MacGregor

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  Pete Forcelli was a highly respected federal agent in New York City, where he made an impact on violent crime by successfully targeting some of the city's most violent street gangs by using federal racketeering and continuing criminal enterprise statutes in conjunction with federal prosecutors. In early 2007, he was promoted to a supervisory position in Phoenix and quickly discovered that federal prosecutors were not charging criminals for violating federal firearms laws, even in instances where they knew guns were being trafficked to ultra-violent drug cartels. 
   
   
   
  When those very same prosecutors spoke about possibly indicting John Dodson, a special agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious, Forcelli stepped forward and contacted Congress. Forcelli became a whistleblower himself, detailing how federal prosecutors in Arizona not only failed to prosecute gun traffickers, but allowed a man who was making hundreds of hand grenades for the Sinaloa Cartel to continue his operations unabated for years. At that moment, those prosecutors and officials from the Department of Justice came after him, leading to a nearly four-year battle for Forcelli to clear his name. 
   
   
   
  This book provides his insider's account of the scandal that stands as one of the worst stains on federal law enforcement.

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  Crime Cast - Ten Lost Boys - Was...

  Marie Foreman Nunn

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ten Lost Boys, is volume two of the Crime Cast Library, a collection of ten episode, true crime documentary 
  drama volumes, with each book built around a true crime investigative idea, that shapes the cases inside it. Ten Lost Boys is long form true crime story telling. One book. Ten crimes. One guide through the dark.

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