Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York City's Most Famous Neighborhood

Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Paul Lieberman
• Narrated By Robert Petkoff
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Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....

The Mafia at War: The Shocking True Story of America's Wartime Pact with Organized Crime

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Tim Newark
• Narrated By Michael Kramer

The Mafia at War reconstructs the relationships between the Mafia and Allied intelligence organizations.

Discover how Jewish gangsters clashed with Nazis on the streets of New York; how Mafiosi nearly issued contracts to kill top Nazis, including Hitler; how Mafia-backed bandits conducted a guerrilla war for Sicilian independence; and how Eisenhower was happy to arm the Mafia during the Allied invasion of Sicily.

Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Tere Tereba
• Narrated By Kate Reading
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When Bugsy Siegel was executed, ruthless Mickey Cohen, a former pro boxer and cunning provocateur, took over criminal activity in L.A., a move sanctioned by Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello. Attaining immense power and dominance, from the late 1940s until 1976 the semi-literate Angeleno became an above-the-fold newspaper name, accumulating a remarkable count of more than 1,000 front pages in Los Angeles papers alone, and hundreds of articles in national and international periodicals.

Mafia Cop: The Two Families of Michael Palermo; Saints Only Live in Heaven

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Richard Stanley Cagan
• Narrated By Kevin Stillwell

Detective Michael Palermo built his career on his unique ability to inhabit two worlds at once: the world of law enforcement and the underworld of New York’s crime family organizations. Palermo participated in over 2,000 arrests while maintaining close relationships with the kingpins of organized crime - ties that allowed him to stay one step ahead of the rest of the New York City Police Department. This true crime drama takes you inside the police force at its most corrupt.

Original Gangster: The Real Life Story of One of America's Most Notorious Drug Lords

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Frank Lucas, Aliya S. King
• Narrated By Cary Hite
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In his own words, real life American Gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian mafia’s monopoly over drug smuggling in New York, Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly from his source in Vietnam using the coffins of dead American soldiers.