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In this bumper collection, James Morton, author of the bestselling Gangland series, not only provides a fresh look at the activities of household names such as Al Capone and the Kray twins, but also introduces many gangs just as dangerous, but less well known, operating across the world.
The gangs and gangsters range from London’s real-life A Team, The Adams family from Clerkenwell, to the Jewish-Algerian Zemour brothers, who ran Paris crime until their violent deaths in the 1980s, by way of the Ashley-Mobley gang who terrorized Florida in the early part of the twentieth century and the Dixie Mafia.
It looks at other US gangs, too, such as Ma Barker and her boys, the mid-West Lewis-Jones gang, and Jimmy the Gent and the New York Lufthansa heist. Beyond the United States, it examines the fascinating case of South African police officer turned gangster, Andre Stander; the Painters and Dockers War in Australia; and, in the Far East, Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer who befriended then drugged and killed Western tourists.
