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New York Times Bestseller"As fascinating as fiction, a bloody history of the Mafia as lived by one of its members." --New York Times Book ReviewThe First Inside Account of the MafiaIn the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers--and where the bodies were buried--Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime figures.The rest is history.Never again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi's name would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning expos broke the back of America's Cosa Nostra and stands today as the classic about America's Mob, a fascinating tale of power and terror, big money, crime. . . and murder.

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's prized submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Thirty-three members survived, largely because of the efforts of U.S. Navy officer Charles Swede Momsen. In this thrilling true account, Maas vividly recreates the adventure, which will be aired as an NBC-TV movie in April 2001.

On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension onshore, their ultimate fate would depend upon one man, US Navy officer Charles 'Swede' Momsen - an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist and man of action.

In the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames systematically and cold bloodedly sent a dozen of the US's best agents to their death, betraying them to the Soviets for more than two million dollars. This is the story of how he was finally caught.

The novelisation of a film set in the 1970s, which tells of how Patrolman Frank Serpico spent five lonely years, despite threats from his fellow officers, fighting a fruitless battle against police corruption, until finally, in despair and frustration, he decided to take the final step. Reissued for the BLOOMSBURY FILM CLASSICS series.

In a tragic and shocking story of true crime, Peter Maas gives insight into how the brutal murder of a young wife by her husband sparked a nasty and threatening custody battle between the couple's families. In 1984, the infant son of Kenneth and Teresa Taylor was left orphaned after Kenneth brutally murdered Teresa using a dumbbell to crack her skull. In the months that followed, an intoxicatingly traumatic battle for the infant's custody between Kenneth's parents and Teresa's sister would destroy more lives than necessary. Shedding light on the motivations of a sociopathic killer, Peter Maas shares the gripping story of the Taylor family beginning with the murder of Teresa and progressing through the abduction of their child when the custody case went against the desires of Kenneth, leading to further incriminating actions, even as he was in jail after being convicted of murder. "A wrenching story with popular appeal." -- Library Journal

Y.K. Deng, Chinese mastermind of a global heroin ring, risks his life in order to eliminate his competition by transferring all of the assets his crime syndicate to the United States in one shipment of pure heroin in this international thriller from the bestselling author of Serpico. Under the guise of moving his business in anticipation of China's takeover of Hong Kong, Y.K. Deng prepares to move a mass shipment of potent heroine to the United States using the Mafia to distribute it. As the FBI agents assigned to Deng's relocation slowly start to uncover the truth behind his move to the U.S., China White takes on fascinating and believable twists leading up to one careless mistake that throws the entire devious plan off course. Based on fact, this page-turning suspense novel takes readers into a world of Chinese drug smuggling and international crime, giving insight to the practically seamless flow of drugs into the United States and just how hard it is for government agencies to stop them in action.

Ausgehend von einer aktuellen Bestandsaufnahme der Franchising- Literatur und -Praxis werden Defizite der gegenwartigen Diskussion um Franchise-Systeme herusgearbeitet, die vor allem in der Beschrankung auf juristische und betriebswirtschaftlich-normative Gesichtspunkte zu sehen sind. Unter einer erweiterten Perspektive wird auf der Basis psychologischer Erkenntnisse die Bedeutung struktureller Bedingungen und individueller Handlungsspielraume fur die Franchise-Nehmer und deren Wirkungen auf die Entwicklung von Handlungskompetenz vor dem Hintergrund gewandelter Wertorientierungen analysiert. Erstmalig werden im Rahmen einer umfassenden empirischen Studie motivationale, kognitive und affektive Konsequenzen einer Tatigkeit in einem Franchise-System aufgezeigt, wie sie in individueller Arbeitszufriedenheit und psychischer Beanspruchung zum Ausdruck kommen. Chancen und Risiken des Franchising konnen nur aufgrund des spezifischen Zusammenspiels personaler und situationaler Variablen beurteilt werden, wobei in dem untersuchten Betrieb der organisationalen Feinsteuerung besonderer Einfluss zugeschrieben werden kann."