File Updated: 29/09/2007

New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Milo Books JULY-SEPT 07
Ron Chepesiuk American Gangster: The History of the Gangs of Harlem Pbk published July 2007 by Milo Books at £8.99 ISBN: 1903854660


Frank Lucas was ''Super Fly'', the baddest dude on the mean streets of Harlem. His drug gang smuggled heroin from Vietnam to the US in American warplanes and were rumoured to hide drugs in the bodybags of dead GI's. His exploits are to be immortalised in a Hollywood blockbuster.
Lucas is one of a cast of of extraordinary larger-than-life characters in Amerian Gangster, the first ever chronicle of the little known history of organized crime in New York's most infamous neighbourhood. Harlem's gangsters are every bit as colourful, intriguing, and as powerful as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, and have a fascinating history of gambling, prostitution, and drug dealing.
In the late 1800's, Harlem was a highly fashionable area, but a real estate collapse shortly after the turn of the century emptied its streets of white residents, and by the 1930's, two-thirds of New York City's African-Americans were living there. Gambling and drugs became key factors in the growth of gangsterism. Heroin dealing increased significantly after the French Connection's fall of the early 1970's paving the way for street mobs like the No Fear Gang, the Family, and the Nine Trey Gang, and the crack wars of the 1980's.
In this vivid account, Ron Chepesiuk tells the story of the organized crime in Harlem through in-depth profiles of the major gangs and motley gangsters whose exploits made them legends.

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Lowles N & Nicholls A Hooligans. v.1: A-L of Britain’s Football Hooligan Gangs. Pbk published September 2007 by Milo Books at £7.99 ISBN: 1903854636


Every football team in Britain has at one time or another attracted a hooligan element, from the Guv'nors of Manchester City and the Frontline of Middlesbrough to the Subway Army of Wolverhampton Wanderers and the legendary ICF of West Ham United.
Authors Nick Lowles and Andy Nicholls have interviewed scores of former and current gang members to compile the first ever encyclopaedia of all the gangs. Each club has a separate entry listing the names of its gangs, their size, how they formed, their worst fights, their bitterest rivals and how the police attempted to stop them.

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