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Author : Peter Huston
Release : 2001
Genre : Chinese American criminals
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 546/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tongs, Gangs, and Triads by : Peter Huston
Download or read book Tongs, Gangs, and Triads written by Peter Huston. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Huston
Release : 1995
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 356/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tongs, Gangs, and Triads by : Peter Huston
Download or read book Tongs, Gangs, and Triads written by Peter Huston. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Chinese Maria" has earned a reputation as one most brutal in the seedy underworld ofst notorious, perhaps, for its control of the lucrative Southeast Asian drug trade. But how much of this is Hollywood hype and how much is reality? Here author Peter Huston explores the rich Chinese tradition of tongs, triads and secret societies and their frequent involvement in organized crime, as well as their growing collusion with Chinatown street gangs. He also examines how Chinese culture and the plight of Chinatown society obstruct efforts to fight these crime groups and even serve to fuel their growth.
Author : Emily Sweeney
Release : 2017-10-19
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 37X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gangland Boston by : Emily Sweeney
Download or read book Gangland Boston written by Emily Sweeney. This book was released on 2017-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GUIDED TOUR OF BOSTON’S UNDERWORLD, REVEALING THE PLACES WHERE DEALS WERE MADE, PEOPLE WERE KILLED, AND BODIES WERE BURIED Gangsters have played a shady role in shaping Greater Boston’s history. While lurking in local restaurants or just around the corner inside that inconspicuous building, countless criminals have quietly made their mark on the city and surrounding communities. Gangland Boston reveals the hidden history of these places, bringing readers back in time to when the North End was wrought with gun violence, Hanover Street was known as a “shooting gallery,” and guys named King Solomon, Beano Breen, and Mickey the Wiseguy ruled the underworld. Drawing upon years of research and an extensive collection of rare photographs, author Emily Sweeney sheds light on how gang violence unfolded during Prohibition, how the Italian mafia rose to power, and how the Gustin Gang came to be. She also uncovers little-known facts about well-known crime figures (Did you know the leader of the Gustin Gang was an Olympic athlete? Or that a fellowship at a major university was named after a big-time bookie?) From South Boston to Somerville, Chinatown to Charlestown, and every neighborhood in between, readers will get to know mobsters in ways they never have before. Readers will find out: * Exact addresses where mobsters lived, worked, and played around Greater Boston * How an Olympic athlete became one of Boston’s most notorious gangsters * The untold history of the Gustin Gang * Frank Sinatra’s connection to a long-forgotten Massachusetts racetrack * Little-known facts about David “Beano” Breen, Charles “King” Solomon, Harry “Doc” Sagansky, Raymond L.S. Patriarca, and other legendary crime figures
Author : Patrick Radden Keefe
Release : 2023-02-14
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 61X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Snakehead by : Patrick Radden Keefe
Download or read book The Snakehead written by Patrick Radden Keefe. This book was released on 2023-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.’ Time In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people. In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping’s complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them. Grand in scope yet propulsive in narrative force, The Snakehead is both a kaleidoscopic crime story and a brilliant exploration of the ironies of immigration in America.
Author : T. J. English
Release : 2011-11-15
Genre : True Crime
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Born to Kill by : T. J. English
Download or read book Born to Kill written by T. J. English. This book was released on 2011-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “riveting” true story of the Vietnamese gang that terrorized Manhattan’s Chinatown, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Westies (Newsday). They are children of the Vietnam War. Born and raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm, these young men know a particular brand of cruelty—which they are about to export to the United States. When the Vietnamese gangs come to Chinatown, they adopt a name remembered from GI’s helmets: “Born to Kill.” And kill they do, in a frenzy of violence that shocks even the old-school Chinese gangsters who once ran Canal Street. Killing brings them turf, money, and power, but also draws the government’s eye. Even as Born to Kill reaches its height, it is marked for destruction. This story is told from the perspective of Tinh Ngo, a young gang member who eventually grows disenchanted with murder and death. When he decides to inform on his brothers to the police, he enters a shadow world far more dangerous than any gangland.
