A Bloody Business
A Bloody Business

Author: Dylan Struzan

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 659

ISBN-13: 1785657712

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ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROHIBITION, LEARN WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. In 1919, the National Prohibition Act was passed, making it illegal across America to produce, distribute, or sell liquor. With this act, the U.S. Congress also created organized crime as we know it. Italian, Jewish, and Irish mobs sprang up to supply the suddenly illegal commodity to the millions of people still eager to drink it. Men like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone in Chicago and Nucky Johnson in Atlantic City, waged a brutal war for power in the streets and on the waterfronts. But if you think you already know this story...think again, since you've never seen it through the eyes of one of the mobsters who lived it. Called "one of the most significant organized crime figures in the United States" by the U.S. District Attorney, Vincent "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo was just 15 years old when Prohibition became law. Over the next decade, Alo would work side by side with Lansky and Luciano as they navigated the brutal underworld of bootlegging, thievery and murder. Alo's later career included prison time and the ultimate Mob tribute: being immortalized as "Johnny Ola" in The Godfather, Part II. Introduced to the 91-year-old Alo living in retirement in Florida, Dylan Struzan based this book on more than 50 hours of recorded testimony--stories Alo had never shared, and that he forbid her to publish until "after I'm gone." Alo died, peacefully, two months short of his 97th birthday. And now his stories--bracing and violent, full of intrigue and betrayal, hunger and hubris--can finally be told.

A Bloody Business
A Bloody Business

Author: Gerald Schumacher

Publisher: Zenith Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780760323557

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Provides a behind-the-scenes look at America's civilian contractors in Iraq, following the activities of workers for MPRI and Crescent Security, two contracting firms who provide protection for diplomats, move convoys of precious materials, and help rebuild the infrastructure of the wartorn nation.

Bloody Business
Bloody Business

Author: Harry Paul Jeffers

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780760712177

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From the serial murders of Jack the Ripper to the Great Train Robbery, the real-life crimes documented by Scotland Yard rival the thorniest cases of such resourceful fictional detectives as Sherlock Holmes, Jane Marple, and Hercule Poirot. Gathering together a dazzling array of true crime stories, this fascinating history of the world's most famous police department presents detailed portraits of the colorful characters who have left their mark on British law enforcement: magistrate Henry Fielding and his Bow Street Runners; Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne, the architects of England's new police force; and a rogues' gallery of notorious criminals--from Constance Kent, the 16-year-old child killer whose ingenious coverup almost fooled Victorian detectives, to a raft of modern-day terrorists including foreign extremists, IRA gunmen, and drug overlords. Elegantly written and filled with intriguing information, this book is a fitting tribute to those staunch upholders of British justice, the "sharp-eyed blokes'' of Scotland Yard. --Publisher description

A Bloody Business
A Bloody Business

Author: Gerry Schumacher

Publisher: Zenith Press

Published: 2006-04-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1610600681

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As the U.S. Army shrinks, a private army steps into the breach. A Bloody Business offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes and into the ranks of this mercenary force (numbering as many as 15,000 today) who guard supply convoys, train foreign soldiers, provide security for foreign leaders and dignitaries—and whose workplaces are the most dangerous hot spots on the planet. With its insights into who these men are, what drives them, where they come from, how they prepare, and what they do, this book provides a uniquely close-up and complete picture of the private army behind America’s military muscle. The author interviewed security contractors and their families, high-ranking coalition officials, and was in Iraq, where he witnessed how private soldiers fought ambushes, trained Iraqi forces, escorted high-level officials in dangerous conditions, and saw the contractor side of the Iraq war. Includes action on the supply lines and front lines of this unique conflict, and the stories of the contractors who live it every day.

Business or Blood
Business or Blood

Author: Peter Edwards

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0345813774

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Bestselling crime writers Peter Edwards and Antonio Nicaso reveal the final years of Canada's top mafia boss, Vito Rizzuto, and his bloody war to avenge his family and control the North American drug trade. Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his son and father made international headlines; the killings of his lieutenants and friends filled the pages of Canadian news; and the influence of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian Mafia, spread across Montreal faster than the blood of Rizzuto's crime family. In 2012, Vito Rizzuto emerged from prison, a 66-year-old man who could carefully rebuild his criminal empire or seek bloody revenge and damn the consequences. From the events leading to his imprisonment to his shocking death in December 2013, Business or Blood is the final chapter of Vito's story.

A Bloody Business
A Bloody Business

Author: Stephen A. Roddewig

Publisher: Stephen A. Roddewig

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13:

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History meets comedy meets hitman Martin Williams often finds himself in deadly historical events, with a good chance his mark will die without any intervention. But professionals don’t leave things to chance, and Martin is a motivated worker for his paymasters, the Firm. Follow Martin’s lethal career across four decades, three continents, and thousands of cigarettes. Along the way, Martin will find himself on a sinking RMS Titanic, crawling through mud in the middle of the Great War, holding the sold stocks that trigger the Great Depression, embroiled in a home-grown Communist workers’ revolution, and relaxing on a peaceful Pacific atoll the day after Pearl Harbor, to cover half the adventures within. But as time progresses, the world descends into the Cold War, and Martin finds himself increasingly in the crosshairs of equally skilled practitioners for rival organizations. Tiring of espionage, he begins to eye retirement. But will the Firm allow their prized employee to fade into obscurity? Or will they send Martin to join his previous assignments in the ground?

Mine
Mine

Author: Aj Wolf

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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A burning sneer, a snide remark, and a stolen kiss.Three distinct memories among a million others that stain my childhood with Remy Luciano.Sour gummy worms and a nickname.Two more memories and everything I loved to hate started blurring at the edges.A wedding dress made for another.And one whispered confession that has gripped the three of us in its sticky fingers of heartbreak and doubt.You've always been Mine.This book contains themes that some may find triggering. Please read at your own discretion.

The Business of Blood
The Business of Blood

Author: Kerrigan Byrne

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781648390234

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"Heart-pounding mystery awaits the reader brave enough to crack Byrne's sinister cover. This series is everything... E. V. E. R. Y. T. H. I. N. G. BoB has a Ripper Street, Penny Dreadful, Frankenstein Chronicles vibe." -- Whiskey & Wit Book Reviews London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona Mahoney's trade, and business, as they say, is booming. Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known victim of Jack the Ripper. It's been two years since Fiona scrubbed Mary's blood from the floorboards, and London is no longer buzzing about the Ripper, but Fiona hasn't forgotten. And she hasn't stopped searching for Jack. When she's called to a murder in the middle of the night, Fiona finds a victim mutilated in an eerily similar fashion to those of the Ripper, and only a few doors down from Mary's old home. The relentless, overbearing, and irritatingly handsome Inspector Grayson Croft warns her away from the case. She might have listened, if she hadn't found a clue in the blood. A clue that will lead her down a path from which there is no return.As a killer cuts a devastating swath through London, a letter written in blood arrives at her door, and it is only then that Fiona realizes just how perilous her endeavor is. For she has drawn the attention of an obsessive evil, and is no longer the hunter, but the prey. Fiona Mahoney is in the business of blood. But she's not the only one... With intriguing twists, blood-chilling discoveries, and dazzling prose, USA Today Bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne proves a woman's work is never done, even when she is sleuthing out a serial killer. Read the Fiona Mahoney Mysteries in order The Business of Blood A Treacherous Trade A Vocation of Violence.

Tales of the Brass Griffin: Bloody Business
Tales of the Brass Griffin: Bloody Business

Author: C. B. Ash

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-11-14

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0557857627

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The pleas of a desperate young woman draw Captain Anthony Hunter and his crew into a race against time through the streets of Edinburgh. As the body count rises, can they catch the killer before they are next?

Bloody Business
Bloody Business

Author: Autumn Dawn

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2024-05-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Ever do a good deed that was as hard as possible? Julep should have left the goblin beside the road. She saves him instead, and finds herself changing bloody bedpans until they're rescued by his goblin henchmen. Meanwhile, Artur's found gold, and not the stuff hidden in the bottom of Julep's cart. When her greedy family kidnaps her, he steals her back and brings her home to stash with his treasures. But will she thrive in the Goblin City? Or will she be a casualty of brutal goblin rivals?