BROOKLYN'S MOST WANTED
The Top 100 Criminals, Crooks and Creeps from the County of the Kings
by Craig McGuire
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Pub Date Jun 21 2017 | Archive Date Mar 08 2022
Description
BROOKLYN'S MOST WANTED parades an impressive perp walk of 100 of the Borough’s most notorious, ranking them meticulously from bad to worst. From crime bosses to career criminals to corrupt politicians, pedophile priests to Ponzi scammers, this is not your usual crime chronicle. You want labor racketeering, Ponzi scheming, hijacking, murder, loan sharking, arson, illegal gambling, money laundering? Fugetaboutit!
Take this guide tour through gangland that rips open the underbelly of Brooklyn, the broken land, to see what spills, from the South Brooklyn Boys to the Soviet thugs of Brighton Beach’s Little Odessa.
Want to know what Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth and the Son of Sam all have in common?
Brooklyn.
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, Al Capone, Frankie Yale, Paul Vario, Roy DeMeo and so many more malicious malcontents and maniacs stalk these pages, as author Craig McGuire rank a rogues’ gallery of the best of the worst from Brooklyn’s crime-ridden past and present.
This includes more than a century of screaming crime blotter headlines, spotlighting epic cases, like The Brooklyn Godmother, The Sex Killer of Brooklyn, The Nurse Girl Murder, The Long Island Railroad Massacre, The Thrill Kills Gang, and many more. From "Son of Sam" to "Son of Sal," "Little Lepke" to "Big Paulie," "The Butcher of Brooklyn," "The Vampire of Brooklyn," "The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight," even "The Man Who Murdered Brooklyn Baseball," they’re all here.
Much more than Murder Incorporated, this book features kingpins and lone wolves alike, with a line-up featuring many of the multi-ethnic mobs mimicking the original La Cosa Nostra – the Russian Mafia, the Albanian Mafia, the Polish Mafia, the Greek Mafia – in fact, this book contains more Mafias than you can shake a bloody blackjack at. The author’s proprietary Notorious Brooklyn Index analyzes criminal activity, socio-economic type, notoriety, relation to Brooklyn and more for a final score that’s far from conjecture—though it will undoubtedly spark debate.
Welcome to Gangland, U.S.A. – A.K.A. the bloody, brutal killing grounds of Brooklyn, New York.
Watch your back!
Advance Praise
"Never has anyone put together a look into so many of Brooklyn’s worst. This is a great read I highly recommend.",-Thomas Dades, retired NYPD Detective and Bestselling Author of "Friends of the Family"
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781942266976 |
| PRICE | $6.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Valerie S, Reviewer
This book is different from the everyday offering, it's a listing of the top 100 (in reverse) of the most wanted to come out of Brooklyn as far their criminals, crooks, and creeps, as rated by this author's standards. He names them and then tells a bit about them. Many are obvious and people you'd recognize like David Berkowitz- Son of Sam but there are also those who are more obscure like Ludwig Lee who was investigated after dismembered body parts turned up back in 1927. Or Mendel Epstein who was called the "Prodfather", a corrupt rabbi who had the means to arrange for a "get" from husbands for a price when they didn't want one. Quite the unusual list of folks collected and arranged for your reading pleasure. Not all are criminal or even men for that matter, but they kept me entertained for hours learning about 'baddies' from all different eras.
(My thanks to NetGalley, WildBlue Press, and Craig McGuire for providing me with an ARC in return for my review.)
Bonnie K, Reviewer
This book was the listing of the top 100 criminals that came from Brooklyn . It gives a brief history of the person and the crimes they were involved in. One thing to remember is that these criminals came from Brooklyn, but did not necessarily commit their crimes there Of course there were (like Willie Sutton). There were many high profile criminals (Henry Hill, Darryl Littlejohn, Carlo Gambino, David Berkowitz, etc.) and many that were really only known in Brooklyn (Joey Fama, The Shapiro Brothers, Lemrick Nelson, etc.). But I have to admit, #1 did not surprise me as he seems to fascinate so many people - Albert Fish. I found the book to be well written and well researched. It was interesting to read, and yes, fun, too.
Douglas O, Reviewer
This is a very,very good read. It is a best to cover a few stories at a time or you will think all the citizens of Brooklyn are criminals. It's coverage is a unique collection of the murderously famous and written with a subtle sense of humour. It is a very clever collection.
Reviewer 403772
Rated 5 stars. Thank you Netgalley for the chance to review this book: Brooklyn's most wanted by Craig McGuire. I loved this book. It kept my interest through out. Most of the criminals I had never heard of. The count down through all the criminals kept me intrigued and wanting to know more. Anyone interested in Historical Criminals will find this book interesting.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2048665600
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