The Mob runs America and Lansky runs the Mob. The Syndicate controls businesses and crime from Los Angeles to New York -- and Meyer Lansky is its chairman. Lansky is the mystery man behind organized crime in America today.

Lansky

Biographies & Memoirs

Hank Messick

True Crime

The story of Meyer Lansky a major organized crime figure who developed a world-wide gambling network with his associate "Lucky" Luciano.

Amereon Ltd

She was the queen of Miami's gangland society, envied by all the other wives and mistresses of mobdom's elite. Yet after penning a message to Robert Kennedy -- "Do not only wipe out the gangsters but please wipe out the city officials" -- Ann Drahmann Coppola committed suicide in her hotel toom in Rome.
 She had begun her dangerous career of syndicate wife by a youthful marriage to a gambler named Charley Drahmann, manager of one of the syndicate's casinos. Shortly after Drahmann's accidental death while carrying out a bit of busienss for the mob, she married the notorious Mike Coppola, boss of the lucrative numbers racket in East Harlem and a syndicate overlord, and moved to his fantastic house in Miami Beach.
 Syndicate Wife is the exciting, moving story of an ill-starred but ultimately courageous woman. It is also the best and best informed reporting -- much of the material is known exclusviely to the author -- of the mob's huge role in our amoral society.

Syndicate Wife: The Story of Ann Drahmann Coppola

Amereon House

An account of organized crime in Northern Kentucky -- its growth, its power, and, finally, its ouster in the early 1960s.

Razzle Dazzle

The story of an ill-starred if courageous woman, the ex-wife of Trigger Mike Coppola, and a corrupt vice-ridden river city on the south bank of the Ohio River.

The mobs and the Mafia: The illustrated history of organized crime

Galahad Books

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Books by Hank Messick

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Lansky

Lansky

Syndicate Wife: The Story of Ann Drahmann Coppola

Razzle Dazzle

Syndicate Wife: The Story of Ann Drahmann Coppola

The mobs and the Mafia: The illustrated history of organized crime

Razzle Dazzle