Bibliograph

The dark heart of Hollywood, glamour, guns and gambling - inside the Mafia's global empire, Douglas Thompson

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The dark heart of Hollywood, glamour, guns and gambling - inside the Mafia's global empire, Douglas Thompson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The dark heart of Hollywood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

833278717

Responsibility statement

Douglas Thompson

Sub title

glamour, guns and gambling - inside the Mafia's global empire

Summary

This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood's hidden history, from the rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would. In The Dark Heart of Hollywood, seasoned crime and entertainment writer Douglas Thompson reveals how all is masterminded by the money-obsessed Mafia, for whom everything and everyone is simply a commodity. The intense saga charges across America: from Hollywood bedrooms to the Oval Office, from California's twenty-first-century computer capital to the cocaine-connection HQs stretching from the Sunset Strip to Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Tokyo and Beijing. In this magnificent and highly compelling volume, Hollywood is unveiled as Tinseltown without the tinsel

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