Peter Maas Libri

Frank Serpico non è un poliziotto qualunque. Conoscendo la sua passione per l'Opera e per il balletto sarebbe difficile immaginare il suo lavoro. Senza considerare il suo abbigliamento trasandato o i suoi animali domestici: un cane pastore, un topolino bianco e un pappagallo del Guatemala. Eppure non sono tutte queste cose che lo rendono diverso rispetto ai colleghi del New York Police Department. Perché in un ambiente dove, a dispetto delle divise e dei distintivi, un codice omertoso favorisce i corrotti a discapito degli onesti, Serpico sarà costretto a pagare in prima persona il suo rifiuto di assoggettarsi al codice del silenzio che consente a molti colleghi di fare affari con delinquenti di ogni genere. Tratto da una storia vera, portata sul grande schermo da un immenso Al Pacino, Serpico è il ritratto crudo e commovente di un uomo lasciato solo di fronte all'arbitrio dei violenti. Un eroe moderno costretto a rischiare la vita nel nome della giustizia e della verità.

A new suspense thriller from the author of SERPICO and THE VALACHI PAPERS, involving a web of conspiracy and deceit that unravels the innermost secrets of the hidden Chinatown world of the new Mafia.

On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend upon one man, U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen -- an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist, and man of action. In this thrilling true account, prize-winning author Peter Maas vividly re-creates a moment-by-moment account of the disaster and the man at its center. Could he actually pluck those men from a watery grave? Or had all his pioneering work been in vain?

The First Inside Account of the MafiaIn the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers—and where the bodies were buried—Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime figures.The rest is history.Never again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi's name would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning exposé. broke the back of America's Cosa Nostra and stands today as the classic about America's Mob, a fascinating tale of power and terror, big money, crime ... and murder.

"Brilliantly constructed and grimly fascinating. . . . The result is a terrific and important book. . . . It's important because it is a morality play on the subject of loyalty. To whom are you loyal, and from who should you be able to expect loyalty?" —  New York Times Book Review Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves—a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

V roce 1945, v závěrečných dnech války, vyplouvá z přístavu na moře těžký křižník Indianapolis. Převáží přísně střežený náklad, který navždy změní svět. Jedná se o uran 235, kterým budou naplněny bomby určené pro Hirošimu. Křižník bez problémů vyložil olověné válce s uranem na ostrově Tinian a plavil se ke Guamu. Dle rozkazu měl přeplout Filipínské moře k ostrovu Leyte. Tam se už neobjevil. Byl torpédován japonskou ponorkou mezi Guamem a Leyte. Po dvanácti minutách bylo vše skončeno. Více než 300 mužů šlo ke dnu s lodí. Dalších 900 námořníků však zůstalo na hladině. Čekaly je čtyři dny a pět nocí plných hrůzy. Bez pitné vody v oceánu plném útočících žraloků.

Dramatická reportáž o zákulisí organizovaného zločinu 20. stol. ve Spojených státech. Autor střídá autentickou výpověď jednoho z řadových členů Cosa nostry, několikanásobného vraha v jejích službách, s vlastním analyzujícím komentářem a vytváří tak pozoruhodný dokument o největší zločinecké organizaci na světě.

Der Taylor Kampf um ein Kind - bk16; Goldmann Verlag; Peter Maas; pocket_book; 1993