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Item Details
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SHADOWLAND
HOW THE MAFIA BET BRITAIN IN A GLOBAL GAMBLE |
| By: |
Douglas Thompson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£11.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1845967798 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781845967796 |
| Publisher: |
MAINSTREAM PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
Details the secrets of one of history's greatest criminal conspiracies, and of how world-champion boxer Freddie Mills really died. This title tells the tale that moves from London to New York and Las Vegas, down to Miami, into Havana, then on to the Bahamas and back to an unexpected denouement in London. |
| Synopsis: |
"Shadowland" is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an elaborate Mafia plan to 'invade' Europe using 1960s London as a bridgehead. The capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also a world of gambling, guns and gangsters. Several veterans of the era are astonished that they survived it and some feel protected enough - now that most of the killers are themselves dead - to reveal to bestselling author Douglas Thompson the details and secrets of one of history's greatest criminal conspiracies, and of how world-champion boxer Freddie Mills really died. The tension in this real-life narrative is ferocious as the tale moves from London to New York and Las Vegas, down to Miami, into Havana, then on to the Bahamas and back to an unexpected denouement in London. Brutal, terrifying and intrigue-packed, it is an account of the Mob's Machiavellian global manipulation of governments and officials. "Shadowland" recounts events from the viewpoint of the pawns as well as the kingmakers.All the big players of Mafia history are here, controlled by the gangster genius Meyer Lansky, but so are the hit men, the fixers, the hoodlums and the wiseguys. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Mainstream Publishing |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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