Organised crime has been this century’s biggest growth industry. From the Mafia in New York to the drug cartels of Columbia, the men who run crime’s biggest corporations live above the law in a world where muscle and violence write the rules. In this gripping book you can read true life accounts of the careers of the most powerful gangsters of all time:

– The Kray Twins, who ruled the East End of london through violence and a strange network of community loyalties
– The Sicilian dons, whose vendettas sometimes lasted five generations, and who defeated the Germans in WW2
– "Lucky" Luciano, the Mafioso so powerful even the US Government had to seek his help
– Murder Incorporated, the terrifying trade union for Hit Men
– And many more…