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Captive cityOvid Demaris

Captive city

1969335 pages
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Dust jacket notes: Chicago is a city on chains. It is owned and operated by a cabal of organized criminals and corrupted politicians. So-called "respectable businessmen" cooperate fully. For the first time, their relationship is clearly shown, not in an archetypal tale, but in a book conceived with courage and packed solid with hundreds of names! Crime now poisons every level of American society - but Chicago is unique. It is the killing ground, the training school, the pace setter. Here, the alliance of mobster and politico is brazenly open. The "Westside Bloc", as noted in this book, is…

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  • Hardcover · English · 2007
    Buccaneer Books · 9781568490144
  • Other · English · 1971
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 304 pages · 9780722128961
RacketeeringCrimeOrganized crimeMafiaPolitical corruption