The Mammoth Book of GangsA fresh, new look at gangs in every part of the world which deliberately avoids the stories that have been done to death - about Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde - and focuses on less well-known gangs such as 'Ma' Barker's Boys; the Smaldones of Denver; Scotland Yard's 1960s' Flying Squad, the so-called Firm within a Firm; Dr Death, the Melbourne drug dealer and Andre Stander, the former South African police officer who led a gang of bank robbers before being shot dead in Fort Lauderdale having fled a 17-year sentence. |
Contents
The AshleyMobley Gang 4 Johnny TorrioandAl Capone 5 The LewisJones Gang | |
Rocco andBessie Perri 7 The Purples | |
Gang Warsof the 1920s and 1930s | |
Ma Barker and Her Boys 10 John Dillinger Inc 11 Murder 12 Prostitution in Soho the French Gangs | |
The Messina Brothers | |
Jimmy The Gent Burke and the Lufthansa Robbery | |
Bertie Smalls and the Wembley | |
The Kray Twins in Soho | |
The Dixie Mafia | |
The Cocaine | |
The Birth of the Prison Gang | |
The Scottish Godfather | |
BrinksMat and After 28 Martin Cahill The General 29 Two Bandit Queens and a King | |
The Sabinis | |
Mimile Buisson and the Front Wheel Drive Gang | |
Billy Hill Boss of Britains Underworld | |
Jack Spot | |
The Painters and Dockers | |
The Great Bookie Robbery | |
The Triadsin Soho 31 The Zemours and Their Friends 32 The Riseand Fall ofthe Moran Family | |
The Moss Side Gangs | |
The A Team | |
Bibliography | |
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