Download or read book A Thug Valentine In Chicago written by Princess Diamond and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever fell in love with your best friend? That's exactly what happened to Hart and Venus. Their bond was deeper than they both realized.Hart Diaz Santana became the head of his family when his father was shot. His parents had been grooming him to take over the family business since he was born. At an early age, he was moving more coke than most corner boys saw in a year. Hart was jumping on planes with millions of dollars, negotiating high capital deals, and bribing officials. He did whatever it took to make sure things worked out in his favor. Of course, with money and power came a slew of women, and Hart dated them all.Venus Alexander met Hart in the second grade after they both got caught cheating on a test. That mistake taught them a valuable lesson in life and it formed a lifelong friendship. As time went on, Venus noticed just how superficial Hart was. He was cute, but he was a self-centered womanizer. It wasn't until he offered to tutor her in physics that she realized how intelligent he was. That's when she became attracted to his mind and she realized he had more to offer than just his good looks.The night that Venus and Hart realized they had romantic feelings for each other, his house was raided. Being the man of the house, Hart made sure that, Venus, his siblings, and his mother made it to the safe house. Consequently, he never made it. That night, he was charged with drug possession and forced to do ten years in prison.Can Venus be Hart's ride or die chick? Or will she fold under pressure? Take this suspenseful journey with two best friends as they explore what love truly means in A Thug Valentine In Chicago.
Download or read book The St Valentine s Day Massacre written by William J. Helmer and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the St. Valentine's Day Massacre when killers dressed as cops gunned down seven men. While the massacre was commonly thought to be ordered by Al Capone, it was actually the work of group from St. Louis known as the "American Boys." The book examines how law enforcement officials worked not to solve the crime to avoid retaliation by corrupt politicians.
Download or read book Deadly Valentines written by Jeffrey Gusfield and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing one of the most outrageous stories of the Capone era, this is the twin biography of a couple who defined the extremes and excesses of the Prohibition Era in America. ";Machine Gun"; Jack McGurn, a babyfaced Sicilian immigrant and Al Capone's chief assassin, and Louise May Rolfe, a beautiful blonde dancer and libertine, paired to represent the epitome of fashion, rebellion, and wild abandon in a decade that shocked and roared. Detailing McGurn's suspected role in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and his sensational alibi, this biography shows how the couple captured the headlines in every newspaper in the country, had their hipster speech copied by Hollywood, and were the spellbinding poster children of the new jazz subculture. More than a look at the joie de vivre of two lovers caught in history's spotlight, this work examines the continuing allure of the Roaring Twenties and the characters who inspired America's love affair with gangster literature and crime cinema.
Download or read book One More Valentine written by Anne Stuart and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved romance that offers a distinctive—and distinctly entertaining—take on Valentine’s Day. The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre was supposed to be the end for Al Capone’s rivals. Instead, it turned out to be a second chance. For James Sheridan Rafferty, it’s turning out to be an eternity of second chances, one year after another. Assistant prosecutor Helen Emerson is plagued by a bad dream she can never quite remember, a nightmare that seems to be part of someone else’s life. Then a man who calls himself Rafferty comes knocking on her door… Just like he’s had every Valentine’s Day since 1929, Rafferty has fortyeight hours in which to fall in love and redeem himself. This former gangster thinks that Helen might just be the gal for him, but he has to find out who’s trying to kill her if either one of them is going to have any kind of chance at all. Previously published.
Download or read book Get Capone written by Jonathan Eig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real story of how the federal government finally apprehended and convicted America’s most notorious criminal, Al Capone. Drawing on recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most infamous criminal in rich new detail. From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world with limitless opportunity. Within a few years Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nation’s largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the world’s first international celebrities. Legend credits Eliot Ness and his “Untouchables” with apprehending Capone, but Eig shows that this wasn’t so. In Get Capone, the man known as “Scarface” emerges as a complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.
Download or read book Uncle Al Capone written by Deirdre Marie Capone and published by Recaplodge LLC. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the revised edition, March 2015. The untold story from inside his family. Dramatic, unyielding, and provocative, Uncle Al Capone by Deirdre Marie Capone, Al Capone's grandniece, is a fascinating memoir and engaging biography. This moving, highly readable portrait of the Capone family and its mob trade examines what it has meant to survive the storied legacy of the family's forbearers. As Capone traces the arc of regret and what fuels the Capone myth, she finds redemption and a way to coexist with her legacy. In seventeen chapters with titles like "The Making of the Mafioso," "Trading the Chicago Outfit for the Chicago Cubs," and "The Saint Valentine's Day Truth," Capone outlines organized crime in Chicago and offers vignettes of American history during the early and mid-twentieth century. Using years of research and exhaustive interviews with her aunts, uncles, and cousins, she weaves an engaging anecdotal narrative of what it meant to be a Capone, what it meant to lose her father to suicide, and what it meant to have a mother who lived in constant fear. She offers compelling evidence that Al Capone was specifically targeted for prosecution by law enforcement agencies assisted by the media, which made gross exaggerations of her uncle's exploits and fueled a phenomenon of half-truths and utter falsehoods. From the family's roots in Angri, Italy to the author's ongoing investigations today, this debut offers a comprehensive and moving portrait of an iconic American family and one woman's efforts to make peace with the past.
Download or read book Bloody Valentine written by John Fleury and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★ A Valentine's Day not soon forgot ★★★ The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is one of the most notorious murders of all time. In the crime-ridden Chicago of the Prohibition era, gangsters like Al Capone battled for power, but few went to the extreme lengths that Capone did on that fateful day in 1929. This short book gives you an exciting look at one of the most notorious criminals of all time, and the massacre he masterminded to finally gain control of the bootleg liquor trade. Pray he has chocolates in that box and not a Tommy gun! This is one Valentine's Day you will never forget.
Download or read book Scarface and the Untouchable written by Max Allan Collins and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago–a landmark work that is as riveting as a thriller. Now featuring a new preface, plus 115 photographs and a map of gangland Chicago. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year “Gripping. ... Reads like a novel.” —Chicago “Revolutionizes our understanding of Al Capone and Eliot Ness." —Matthew Pearl In 1929, thirty-year-old gangster Al Capone ruled both Chicago's underworld and its corrupt government. To a public who scorned Prohibition, "Scarface" became a local hero and national celebrity. But after the brutal St. Valentine's Day Massacre transformed Capone into "Public Enemy Number One," the federal government found an unlikely new hero in a twenty-seven-year-old Prohibition agent named Eliot Ness. Chosen to head the legendary law enforcement team known as "The Untouchables," Ness set his sights on crippling Capone's criminal empire. Today, no underworld figure is more iconic than Al Capone and no lawman as renowned as Eliot Ness. Yet in 2016 the Chicago Tribune wrote, "Al Capone still awaits the biographer who can fully untangle, and balance, the complexities of his life," while revisionist historians have continued to misrepresent Ness and his remarkable career. Enter Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz, a unique and vibrant writing team combining the narrative skill of a master novelist with the scholarly rigor of a trained historian. Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition. Schwartz is a rising-star historian whose work anticipated the fake-news phenomenon. Scarface and the Untouchable draws upon decades of primary source research—including the personal papers of Ness and his associates, newly released federal files, and long-forgotten crime magazines containing interviews with the gangsters and G-men themselves. Collins and Schwartz have recaptured a bygone bullet-ridden era while uncovering the previously unrevealed truth behind Scarface's downfall. Together they have crafted the definitive work on Capone, Ness, and the battle for Chicago.
Download or read book Summertime With A Chicago Thug written by Patrice Balark and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You ever been to Chicago? What about in the summertime? What happens when California dreaming meets a real-life Chicago Thug? Well, smart, gorgeous, sassy, and a little conservative Monday Valentine is about to find out exactly that on her first visit to the Chi.Best cousins, Shaquita and Monday, are finally able to spend the summer together in Chicago, getting their hot girl summer on as Monday interns at the largest law firm there. However, none of that compares when she lays her eyes on Aaron "Block" Williams, one of the head leaders of the Jack Boyz, making her forget about the life she has in Cali, including her almost fiancé. Block is trying his best to do right by his son and son's mother Tisha and to keep his word by being a family. However, Tisha is making that vow very difficult every dayum day. But when his eyes catch the silhouette and essence of Monday, it causes a whole shift inside him, causing him to express and do what he's never done before. Shaquita Valentine is a beautiful, smart, street savvy boss in her own right, working as a recovery room nurse. She can handle her own, but her heart belongs to the other leader of the Jack Boyz, Lawrence "Law" Bishop. However, Law just can't seem to keep his sledge in his pants, breaking her heart countless of times. But when the ultimate betrayal happens, unbeknownst to her, Law finds himself in a hard place, trying to prevent the love of his life from leaving him for good. Will Shaquita and Law finally get it right? Or will his scandalous past shatter them for good?Everyone in Chicago knows that the Jack Boyz run everything, yet so many rivalries still try their hands at getting one up. Law and Block are ruthless and don't mind getting their hands dirty, if it means keeping their family structured and safe. When the best friends receive the opportunity of a lifetime, promoting them beyond their goals, they are in for a rude awakening when jealousy and anger come at them in full force. How will they handle it? Will the promotion be too much for them to conquer?The way summer begins in Chicago will not be the way that it ends. Love takes flight. Dynamics changes. Relationships are battled. Hidden truths are revealed. Hearts are broken and amended. No one will remain the same. Check out how hot it gets in Patrice Balark's thrilling new African American urban book, Summertime With A Chicago Thug.
Download or read book Al Capone s Beer Wars written by John J. Binder and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on 25 years of research using all available sources, this is the definitive history of organized crime in Chicago through the end of the Prohibition Era"--
Download or read book Al Capone written by Deirdre Bair and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone loomed large as Public Enemy Number One: his multimillion-dollar Chicago Outfit dominated organized crime, and law enforcement was powerless to stop him. But then came the fall: a legal noose tightened by the FBI, a conviction on tax evasion, a stint in Alcatraz. After his release, he returned to his family in Miami a much diminished man, living quietly until the ravages of his neurosyphilis took their final toll. Our shared fascination with Capone endures in countless novels and movies, but the man behind the legend has remained a mystery. Now, through rigorous research and exclusive access to Capone’s family, National Book Award–winning biographer Deirdre Bair cuts through the mythology, uncovering a complex character who was flawed and cruel but also capable of nobility. At once intimate and iconoclastic, Al Capone gives us the definitive account of a quintessentially American figure.
Download or read book Murder City The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties written by Michael Lesy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-02-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivid, laconic, and crisp. The bodies fall like dominoes, and every word sounds like it was shot from a gun. And as you might expect from Lesy, the photographs are extraordinary." —Luc Sante Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else. So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of Murder in America. Just as Lesy’s first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, subverted the accepted notion of the Gay Nineties, so Murder City exposes the dark side of the Jazz Age. Revisiting seventeen Chicago murder cases—including that of Belva and Beulah, two murderesses whose trials inspired the musical Chicago—Lesy's sharp, fearless storytelling makes a compelling case that this collection of criminals may be progenitors of our modern age.
Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to be a Chicago Gangster written by Rupert Matthews and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back to the 1920s and plumb the depth of Chicago's criminal underworld. As an undercover cop, you'll pretend to be a gangster and infiltrate one of Chicago's most dangerous gangs.
Download or read book After Capone written by Mars Eghigian and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as "the Enforcer" in the Capone Gang, Nitti has been glamorized in movies. This book gives a warts-and-all portrayal of the gangster.
Download or read book Mr Capone written by Robert J. Schoenberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-06 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I ever did was to sell beer and whiskey to our best people. All I ever did was to supply a demand that was pretty popular. Why, the very guys that make my trade good are the ones that yell the loudest about me. Some of the leading judges use the stuff. When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. -- Al Capone
Download or read book Al Capone and His American Boys written by William J. Helmer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler—wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"—set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 years later in FBI files, the manuscript describes the couple's life on the run, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Gus was one of the shooters), and other headline crimes of that period. Prepared for publication by mob expert William J. Helmer, Al Capone and His American Boys is a compelling contemporary account of the heyday of Chicago crime by a woman who found herself married to the mob.
Download or read book Capone written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving beyond the Capone mythology. Bergreen finds a paradox: a coldblooded killer, thief, pimp, and racketeer who was also a devoted son and father; a self-styled Robin Hood who rose to the top of organized crime. Capone is a masterful portrait of an extraordinary time and of the one man who reigned supreme over it all, Al Capone.
