The Accidental Gangster
The Accidental Gangster

Author: Ori Spado

Publisher: WildBlue Press

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1948239450

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The true story of a Hollywood fixer who wound up in the sights of the FBI. In this memoir, Orlando (Ori) Spado honestly recounts his humble beginnings from the small town of Rome in upstate New York, and his journey to becoming known as “The Mob Boss of Hollywood.” It is a candid account documenting his fall from a well-known Hollywood fixer mixing with A-list celebrities to serving 62 months in Federal prison, and ultimately making a determined comeback. “For nearly forty years Orlando ‘Ori’ Spado was a friend and associate of John ‘Sonny’ Franzese, underboss of the Colombo organized crime family. His relationship with Sonny brought him to the attention of the FBI, and eventually led to his being indicted with Sonny on federal RICO charges, and imprisoned. In The Accidental Gangster Ori provides the details of his time in ‘the life’ and his long battle with the FBI—whose overwhelming resources made it a fight that was impossible to win.”—Nick Pileggi, author of Wiseguy “Orlando ‘Ori’ Spado had been a thorn in the side of the Los Angeles field office of the FBI for almost two decades before they finally took him down. Accidentally or not, Ori was a quintessential Mob character, complete with a pinkie ring and a slow, steady deliberate voice whether speaking with friends or foes. But like so many other ‘Good Fellas,’ he was set up by a friend’s son. You will have to read the book to find out who set him up. Enjoy!”—John Connolly, New York Times-bestselling author of Filthy Rich

The Accidental Gangster
The Accidental Gangster

Author: David J Keogh

Publisher: Asys Publishing

Published: 2015-10-26

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781910757376

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Already a No1 Amazon bestseller and hailed a "masterpiece of British crime writing" and featured on BBC, ITV and national media. The Krays are the new lords of the 60s London underworld but they need to expand. They set their greedy eyes on Birmingham where underdog Eddie Fewtrell and his seven brothers have already marked their territory...

Running the Books
Running the Books

Author: Avi Steinberg

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0767931319

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Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer no longer cutting it. Seeking direction (and dental insurance) Steinberg takes a job running the library counter at a Boston prison. He is quickly drawn into the community of outcasts that forms among his bookshelves—an assortment of quirky regulars, including con men, pimps, minor prophets, even ghosts—all searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. Steinberg recounts their daily dramas with heartbreak and humor in this one-of-a-kind memoir—a piercing exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world.

The Accidental Victim
The Accidental Victim

Author: James Reston, Jr.

Publisher: Zola Books

Published: 2013-09-09

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1939126096

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Was the assassination of one of America’s most beloved presidents an accident? That is the shocking argument put forth by acclaimed historian James Reston, Jr. Based on years of research and interviews, this revelatory new book makes the case that Texas Governor John Connally, not President John F. Kennedy, was the intended target of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald's motive was personal, not political. After he attempted to defect to the Soviet Union, his military discharge was changed from honorable to dishonorable. The proud ex-Marine protested directly to fellow Texan Connally, then Secretary of the Navy, and received a classic bureaucratic brush-off. From that day on, Oswald began nursing a deep, even murderous grudge. Reston masterfully charts the path Oswald took toward that fated moment in Dallas, his hatred of the governor driving him to purchase a mail-order rifle, position himself in the Texas School Book Depository building, and attempt to settle his score with Connally. There was no conspiracy. There was Lee Harvey Oswald, a mail-order gun, and a missed shot. Marshaling all the available evidence – some of it never before seen – Reston will change the way we understand this epochal event: In one of American history’s most tragic ironies, President John F. Kennedy was as an accidental victim on November 22, 1963. With nearly 30 photos, the book may take a few minutes to download over 3G or slower connections.

Mafia Boss
Mafia Boss

Author: Khardine Gray

Publisher: Accidental Mafia Queen

Published: 2019-01-25

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781795135849

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Better to be at the right hand of the devil than in his path... When you come from a crime family, you have a name to live up to. My enemies know I'm a bastard who shows no mercy-exactly the cold-hearted don my father would want me to be. Except we're not the ones in charge. Yet... The Boss wants me to take over his billion dollar business, and the only way that's happening is if I can win the heart of his cop daughter. I planned to treat her just like all the other women who meant nothing to me, but everything about her is tempting. Her beauty, her body, her soul. Money and Power. That was all this was supposed to be about... Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. Neither was finding out that her father has a hidden agenda, and I'm just a pawn in his game. MAFIA BOSS is The Godfather and The Sopranos with the sexy edge of a drool-worthy Alpha male. Scroll up and one click to start this sizzling hot mafia romance today!

The Accidental Gangster
The Accidental Gangster

Author: David J Keogh

Publisher: Asys Publishing

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9781910757727

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In the late 1950s as the dust was still settling from the destruction caused by World War II. The only way for a young man to get ahead was to bend the rules on both sides of the law and never back down to anyone or anything. A young man such as this emerged from the poverty-stricken streets of the industrial heartland, a man that would change the face of Birmingham forever. Eddie Fewtrell controls Birmingham's nightlife with an iron glove. But his path to success isn't an easy one. Deadly, gangland confrontations, family betrayals, and assassination attempts by two of the country's most infamous gangsters, the Kray twins, all threaten to topple the crown from the head of the self-proclaimed, King of Clubs, in this desperate battle for power over Great Britain's second city. The most controversial books ever to be written about Birmingham's history, and for the first time under one cover, parts one to three of the Accidental Gangster covering the 1960s to the 1980s including a special factual section and photographs covering the background to the stories and legends are here in this limited edition, trilogy hardback.

The Accidental Gangster
The Accidental Gangster

Author: David J Keogh

Publisher: Asys Publishing

Published: 2016-10-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781910757703

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Cash, cars, bars and stars: Generation 'Del Boy' has come to town. Seeds planted by the eight Fewtrell brothers back in the poverty-stricken days of the 1960s have finally grown into towering money trees and Eddie Fewtrell has the greenest fingers of them all. Twenty years of underworld in-fighting are finally over, and the road to riches lies before him. All he has to do is walk the straight and narrow, but the road is littered with debris from his past. Mistakes, betrayal and revenge, lay like man traps along the road to success ready to snap their metal jaws shut and crush his dreams for the future. The 1980s; greed is good, racial tensions high and violent, football hooliganism fills the TV screens of Great Britain. A time when Eddie Fewtrell attempts to leave his gangster past behind him and finally flourish in to the businessman he always knew he should be. Declaring himself King of Clubs, his crown sits precariously on his head, will this be the decade it finally falls?

Gang Leader for a Day
Gang Leader for a Day

Author: Sudhir Venkatesh

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-01-10

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1440631891

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A New York Times Bestseller "A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist "A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical Times Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty--and impress his professors with his boldness. He never imagined that as a result of this assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade embedded inside the projects under JT’s protection. From a privileged position of unprecedented access, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his gang as they operated their crack-selling business, made peace with their neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex hierarchical structure. Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops between Venkatesh and JT--two young and ambitious men a universe apart. Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy—a memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of America’s most diverse city—is also published by Penguin Press.