Gangland International

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Fast-paced and wide-ranging, Gangland International considers the history of organized crime, from the Italian and American Mafia—including Capone, Dillinger, Murder Inc, Lansky, and Detroit’s Purple Gang—to the the Russian mafiya, the Japanese yakuza, and the South American drug cartels. James Morton also examines the role of the Green Gang of Shanghai, Rocco Perri in Toronto, Australia’s razor gangs, New Zealand’s Mongrel Mob, the Dubois family of Montreal, and the French Zemour brothers. Compulsive and explosive reading, Gangland International is a vivid survey of worldwide criminal activity.