Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

From Prohibition-era bank robbers to the summit of the Mafia Commission, from the back rooms of Las Vegas casinos to the boardrooms of Hollywood studios, organized crime shaped twentieth-century America in ways that official history has only partially acknowledged. In the tenth book of their bestselling series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard trace the brutal arc of American organized crime from the 1930s through the 1980s with the narrative intensity that has sold over eighteen million copies of their previous books. The Depression-era bank robbers come first, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, followed by the consolidation of the five New York Mafia families, the creation of the Commission, and the long, complicated war between J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the men it spent decades pretending did not exist. The battles over Cuba, Las Vegas, and Hollywood receive their due, as does the personal crusade of Attorney General Bobby Kennedy against Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, a conflict as personal as it was political, as dangerous as anything the Justice Department has ever undertaken. O'Reilly and Dugard transform this material into something that reads with the momentum of the best crime fiction while being scrupulously grounded in documented fact.