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Organized Crime: An Inside Guide to the World's Most Successful Industry (Apr., $30) by Paul Lunde is an in-depth account of the criminal underworld and its inhabitants. Advertising.
M. EVANS (dist. by NBN)
Gangsters and Goodfellas: Wiseguys, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run (June, $21.95) by Henry Hill as told to Gus Russo. Henry Hill finally completes the story he began with Wiseguy (the basis for the film Goodfellas), recounting the relationships with mob bosses and movie producers, his struggle with addiction and how he survived it all.
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Redbone: Malice and Murder Inside Atlanta's Black Elite (June, $24) by Ron Stodghill follows the life, murder and courtroom drama of millionaire entrepreneur Lance Herndon.
HARPERCOLLINS
American Taboo (May, $25.95) by Philip Weiss recalls a savage killing in the Peace Corps 25 years ago and the efforts of the American government to free the killer and suppress the case. 60,000 first printing.
NORTHEASTERN UNIV. PRESS
Hot Shots and Heavy Hits: Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent (June, $24.95) by Paul E. Doyle goes inside the underworld of pimps, pushers and addicts, telling the stories of violence, futility and frustration in the war on drugs.
PROMETHEUS BOOKS
Cracking More Cases: The Forensic Science of Solving Crimes (Aug., $26) by Dr. Henry C. Lee with Thomas W. O'Neil. Forensic scientist Lee walks readers through the investigative process of five murder cases, including the Skakel-Moxley and JonBenet Ramsey cases.
READER'S DIGEST BOOKS
Crime Files: 26 True Life Crime Stories from the World's Best-Read Magazine (Apr., $28.95) by Reader's Digest editors features true stories written and researched by major journalists.
REGANBOOKS
The Last Gangster: From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant—Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob (Mar., $25.95) by George Anastasia follows the last days of the Philadelphia Mob and the clash of generations that brought it down. 50,000 first printing.
RUNNING PRESS
The Way of the Wiseguy (Apr., $22.95) by Donnie Brasco, aka Joe Pistone, gives readers a look at the psychology, mindset and traditions that make wiseguys such a unique breed; includes audio CD of FBI surveillance tapes.
RUTGERS UNIV. PRESS
The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping (June, $29.95) by Lloyd C. Gardner reopens the famous case drawing on never-before-used FBI records.
SCRIBNER
The Abduction of Etan Patz: The True Story of the Kidnapping That Still Haunts the Nation (June, $25) by John Douglas examines the mind of the serial child molester who allegedly kidnapped and murdered Etan Patz. A Lisa Drew book.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV. PRESS
Ten Percent of Nothing: The Case of the Literary Agent from Hell (May, $27.50) by Jim Fisher. Former FBI agent Fisher discovers a crime against writers as he exposes one bogus literary agent's exploits and subsequent conviction.
STEERFORTH PRESS
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and the Shocking Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa (June, $24.95) by Charles Brandt offers a detailed account of Sheeran's life as a teamsters boss and Mafia hit man that claims to end the speculation about Hoffa's demise.
VOYAGEUR PRESS
The Big House: Life Inside a Supermax Security Prison (July, $19.95) by Warden James Bruton. The former warden at the Minnesota Correctional Facility offers chilling anecdotes about the inmates and the struggle to understand the criminal mind.
WALKER
The Irish Game (May, $24) by Matthew Hart recounts the 1986 heist of Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid from Ireland's Russborough House by gangster Martin Cahill.
