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"A STORY THAT NO OTHER AUTHOR COULD HAVE PUT TOGETHER . . . Roemer [is] America's most decorated FBI agent." --Chicago Tribune For forty years Tony Accardo was America's most dangerous criminal. He cut his teeth on the Chicago mob wars of Capone and Elliot Ness. He got his nickname "Joe Batters" for killing two men with a baseball bat. As the bodies piled up, Capone's youngest capo murdered and schemed his way to the top. William Roemer was the first FBI agent to face Tony "The Big Tuna" Accardo. Now, Roemer tells the story that only he could tell: the deals, the hits, the double-crosses, and the power plays that reached from the Windy City to Hollywood and to New York. Drawing on secret wiretaps and inside information, ACCARDO chronicles bloodshed and mayhem for more than six decades--as Roemer duels against the most powerful don of them all. . . . "Roemer brings the reality of organized crime home to us." --Boston Herald "A big, sprawled out account that serves as anecdotal history of organized crime." --Kirkus Reviews

Bugsy Siegel built Las Vegas, but it was Tony "The Ant" Spilotro who ran the show. Now William F. Roemer, Jr., veteran FBI agent and scourge of the Cosa Nostra, tells the shocking story of how a teenage wiseguy grew up to become "the man" in Vegas. From the gritty streets of Chicago to the neon-lit Nevada wonderland, Roemer assembles a rogue's gallery of the highest-ranking capos and the lowest creeps of organized crime. As incredible as any work of fiction -- but it's all fact!

"The inside story of how the FBI cracked the Chicago mob by the agent who led the attack." Chapters cover Tony Accardo, Paul Ricca, Gus Alex, Jackie Cerone, Richard Daley, Sam Giancana, Murray "the Camel" Humphreys, Sam DeStefano, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph Bonanno.

Following his acclaimed bestselling account of twenty-two years fighting the Chicago Mob, Bill Roemer--the world's foremost expert on organized crime--turns his attention toward Las Vegas and reveals his intimate knowledge of the mob war for control of organized crime's most lucrative square-mile in America: The Strip. Photographs.

The FBI's longtime organized crime-stopper recounts the career of Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, who rose from hit man to the Chicago mob's boss in Las Vegas, until he was gunned down in 1986 before his trial. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

Real life mob buster, FBI Agent Bill Roemer, continues his extraordinary saga of Mafia power wars, political corruption, and bloody betrayals begun in his bestselling The War of the Godfathers. A novel of heart-pounding suspense, all the more intriguing for its true-life characters and inside knowledge of the secret workings of organized crime.

"The inside story of how the FBI cracked the Chicago mob by the agent who led the attack." Chapters cover Tony Accardo, Paul Ricca, Gus Alex, Jackie Cerone, Richard Daley, Sam Giancana, Murray "the Camel" Humphreys, Sam DeStefano, Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph Bonanno.

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Following his acclaimed bestselling account of twenty-two years fighting the Chicago Mob, Bill Roemer--the world's foremost expert on organized crime--turns his attention toward Las Vegas and reveals his intimate knowledge of the mob war for control of organized crime's most lucrative square-mile in America: The Strip. Photographs.