RT Book
T1 Hitmen: the mafia, drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang
A1 Deitche, Scott M.
LA English
PP Lanham Boulder New York London
PB Rowman & Littlefield
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767220669
AB Origins -- What's in a name? -- A capacity for violence -- The drug game -- Rockland County -- The Milgram murder -- .22 caliber killers -- The shopping spree -- The viserto drug trial -- The early eighties -- A killing on thunderboat row -- The crackdown -- The Michael Meldish murder -- The leaders of the families.
AB "The East Harlem Purple Gang emerged in early 1970s and quickly earned a reputation for violence, contract killings, drug operations, and became the farm team for the Mafia. Hitmen uncovers their dark and twisted history in the gritty New York City organized crime scene of the 70s and 80s"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV6452.N72
SN 9781538153567
K1 East Harlem Purple Gang
K1 Mafia : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century
K1 Organized Crime : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century
K1 USA : Mafia : Bande : Organisiertes Verbrechen : Mord : Auftragsmord : Entführung : Drogenhandel