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Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster, but he never wanted to be part of the mob. For 50 years, from the pre-Castro Havana casinos to Los Angeles, Trascher stole from mob-owned casinos, scammed gangsters, and was one of the top bookies in the country. He capped his career as a confidential informant for Florida law enforcement and was the source for getting inside the Trafficante Mafia family.
Balls is written by Scott Dietche and Ken Sanz. Sanz is a former Florida Department of Law enforcement special agent, and was Eddie's handler and friend for over 20 years.
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
- De Russell en 07-21-17
De: Wayne Worcester, y otros
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Making Jack Falcone
- An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family
- De: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, Michael Levin
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
At six-foot-four-inches and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI. "Big Jack Falcone," as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syndicate and its illegal activities---from extortion and loan-sharking to assault and murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting story--offensive narration
- De Mark en 03-17-12
De: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia, y otros
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Gotti's Rules
- The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia
- De: George Anastasia
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 333
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 285
The notorious Gotti family is the stuff of mob legend. The "Dapper Don", John Gotti Sr., and his son John A. "Junior" Gotti ran New York's powerful Gambino crime family and were well known for their flamboyant style and brutal ways, an image perpetuated in popular Mafia mythology. John Alite, a mob hit man, associate, and close friend of the Gottis, has a very different story to tell.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Garbage read
- De Ray en 09-02-15
De: George Anastasia
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The Last Gangster
- From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob
- De: George Anastasia
- Narrado por: Chris Monteiro
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
As a cop, Ron Previte was corrupt. As a mobster, he was brutal. And in his final role, as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is his story—the story of the last days of the Philadelphia Mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. Convinced that the honor of the "business" was gone, he became the FBI's secret weapon in an intense and highly personalized war on the Philadelphia mob, operating with the same guile, wit, and stone-cold bravado that had made him a force in the underworld.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully done! Exceptional.
- De none en 12-15-23
De: George Anastasia
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Gangster Squad
- Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
- De: Paul Lieberman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
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....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- De KEITH en 02-21-13
De: Paul Lieberman
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The Westies
- Inside New York's Irish Mob
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 793
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 683
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 683
It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Julio en 06-28-18
De: T. J. English
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The Last Good Heist
- The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
- De: Wayne Worcester, Randall Richard, Tim White
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but not the greatest story.
- De Russell en 07-21-17
De: Wayne Worcester, y otros
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Cullotta
- De: Dennis N. Griffin, Frank Cullotta
- Narrado por: Michael Taylor
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 67
From burglary to armed robbery and murder, infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all, in Cullotta he admits to it - and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro's gang of organized lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta's was a world of high-profile heists, street muscle, and information - lots of it - about many of the FBI's most wanted.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story, silly narrator
- De Tom Mainella II en 04-20-15
De: Dennis N. Griffin, y otros
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The Murder of Sonny Liston
- Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights
- De: Shaun Assael
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home - of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to hide, Shaun Assael treats the boxer's death as a cold case. The result is a riveting whodunit that evokes a glorious and grimy era of Las Vegas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- De Diane Dodge en 09-14-19
De: Shaun Assael
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Operation Family Secrets
- How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family
- De: Frank Calabrese Jr., Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, y otros
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 158
The Calabrese family of Chicago is a close-knit, middle-class, multi-generational Italian-Irish-American clan. They operate family businesses. They work day and night striving for the American Dream. All three sons forge a bond with their controlling father, Frank Sr., and their soft-spoken favorite uncle, Nick. As a boy, the oldest son, Frank Jr., realizes that his father and uncle are also "made" members of another close-knit family: the outfit.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Listen!
- De ahippieadventure en 02-06-13
De: Frank Calabrese Jr., y otros
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Vegas and the Mob
- De: Al W. Moe
- Narrado por: Jason Sullivan
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like you've never heard it before, from start to finish.
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3 out of 5 stars
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From Bugsy to Binion
- De Patrick King en 08-20-14
De: Al W. Moe
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Being Oscar
- From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas
- De: Oscar Goodman, George Anastasia
- Narrado por: Oscar Goodman
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
In Being Oscar,one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized crime: Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, and "Lefty" Rosenthal, as well as Mike Tyson and boxing promoter Don King, along with a midget, a dentist, and a federal judge. After 35 years as a defender, he ran for mayor of Las Vegas, and America’s greatest Mob lawyer became the mayor of its sexiest city.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as I expected
- De Eric Schurr en 11-16-14
De: Oscar Goodman, y otros
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The Birthday Party
- A Memoir of Survival
- De: Stanley N. Alpert
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
On January 21, 1998, the night before his 38th birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car full of gun-toting thugs. Hoping to make a large withdrawal with his ATM card, they took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment, and improvised. All night, his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions of "gangsta" philosophy, sought his legal advice, and even offered him sexual favors from their prostitute girlfriends as a "birthday present."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Since there haven't been any SERIOUS...
- De Douglas en 04-30-15
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Gaspipe
- Confessions of a Mafia Boss
- De: Philip Carlo
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 486
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than 50 murders. Currently serving 13 life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times best-selling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The author fails the objectivity test
- De William en 11-29-08
De: Philip Carlo
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Above the Law
- De: J.F. Freedman
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
In a remote northern California town, a huge task force from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducts a raid on the stronghold of one of the biggest drug-dealing rings in the country. During the raid, the infamous, reclusive leader of the ring, Reynaldo Juarez, is shot and killed - despite direct orders from the Attorney General that he is to be taken alive at any cost because of his immense value to the government as a witness in other drug cases.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Book great ending
- De shelley en 04-10-14
De: J.F. Freedman
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90 Church
- Inside America's Notorious First Narcotics Squad
- De: Agent Dean Unkefer
- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka
- Duración: 11 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
90 Church is both the unbelievable memoir of one man's confrontation with the dark corners of the human experience and a fascinating window into a little-known time in American history. Learn the story of the agents who make the DEA look like choirboys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING!!!
- De Nick en 03-22-16
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Double or Nothing
- How Two Friends Risked It All to Buy One of Las Vegas' Legendary Casinos
- De: Tom Breitling, Cal Fussman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
If Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn had come of age at the end of the 20th century looking for an all-American adventure, they probably would've headed for Vegas. However, they'd have been hard-pressed to go on a wilder ride than the one taken by Tom Breitling and Tim Poster to the top of the famed Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino. Call them the Odds Couple.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A look at lives of 2 guys who bought casino
- De Eric A, en 01-05-21
De: Tom Breitling, y otros
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Wanna Bet?
- A Degenerate Gambler's Guide to Living on the Edge
- De: Artie Lange
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 319
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 316
The two-time best-selling author, comedian, actor, and radio icon explains the philosophy that has kept his existence boredom-free since the age of 13 - the love of risk. An avid sports better and frequent card player, Lange believes that the true gambler gets high not from winning, but from the chaotic unknown of betting itself. He recounts some of his favorite moments, many of which haven't involved money at all. In this candid and entertaining memoir, he looks back at the times he's wagered the intangible and priceless things in life: his health, his career, and his relationships.
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5 out of 5 stars
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who needs Artie (to read)
- De B. Wenners en 08-24-18
De: Artie Lange
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Convicted
- A Crooked Cop, an Innocent Man, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship
- De: Jameel McGee, Andrew Collins, Mark Tabb
- Narrado por: Calvin Robinson, Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 56
Racial tensions had long simmered in Benton Harbor, a small city on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, before the day a White narcotics officer - more focused on arrests than justice - set his sights on an innocent Black man. But when officer Andrew Collins framed Jameel McGee for possession of crack cocaine, the surprising result was not a race riot but a transformative journey for both men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful book
- De Michelle B Ouellette en 06-10-21
De: Jameel McGee, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Balls: The Life of Eddie Trascher, Gentleman Gangster
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Thomas
- 06-26-21
Excellent read
The story is one you never hear about but reals of truth brings back the old world Vegas. Most hear to believe
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- James Webb
- 03-16-21
should be in Netflix series
great book amazing look at history throughout that era
one of those gangster stories I've never knew about but I'm glad I do now
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- Priscilla Eklund
- 05-27-21
The Real World
Excellent story about real life in the world of crime.Eddie Trasher presents another aspect of the criminal world.
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- frank
- 12-24-20
worst voice
this was so unpleasant to listen to I just threw in the towel. who talks like that?
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- Dawnielle C.
- 02-23-22
Entertaining Old Vegas Story
Balls is an entertaining tale of Eddie Trascher's story. I really enjoyed learning more about old Vegas and seeing how Eddie's life evolved over time. I would have liked it better if the book was written in more of a story format, and I feel like biographies lend themselves to that style. I can see how this could make a really great Netflix/HBO series. Overall, great, interesting story, just now quite my style preference.
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