Imprint: Virgin Books
Published: 08/04/2013
ISBN: 9780753541890
Length: 378 Pages
Dimensions: 176mm x 18mm x 105mm
Weight: 200g
RRP: £9.99
While many lawyers are honest, for Gangland figures, the best lawyer is often corrupt – a ‘shyster’ – who will act as a go between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and occasionally organise robberies and burglaries. Sometimes these lawyers even kill or may be killed themselves.
Gangland: The Lawyers brings us such lawyers as Frank Ragan, who acted for three mob leaders, and James Sawyer, the barrister and forger involved in the first Great train Robbery. From the amazing story of Gambino crime boss John Gotti (the ‘Teflon Don’) and his attorney Bruce Cutler, to the American judge Joseph Peel, who had his co-judge killed, James Morton presents a worldwide history of these shady individuals and their seedy but compelling stories.
Imprint: Virgin Books
Published: 08/04/2013
ISBN: 9780753541890
Length: 378 Pages
Dimensions: 176mm x 18mm x 105mm
Weight: 200g
RRP: £9.99