Mob Girl A Woman's Life In The Underworld

Author: Teresa Carpenter

Stock information

General Fields

Price : $27.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780008398699
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Imprint : Harper Element
Contained items :
Weight (g) :
Publication date : 01 August 2020
Dimensions : ---length:- '19.8'width:- '12.9'units:- Centimeters
Produced in :
RRP : 27.99
Availability date :
Out of print date :
Agency :
Product Type : books

Special Fields

color :
size :
Author : Teresa Carpenter
Series :
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 2008
Illustrator :
Language :
Dewey classification :
Reading Level :
Library of Con LOCSH :
Pages : 320
BIC subject :
Illustrations :
Colour :
Session :
Deck :
Store Notes :
Translator :
Signed :

9780008398699

Description

Arlyne Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the daughter of a Jewish mobster who ran an auto sales business as a front.

From a young age, she idolized Virginia Hill, the girlfriend of gangster Bugsy Siegel, and aspired to what she saw as a glamorous and exciting life. After a brief marriage to a furrier named Norman Brickman, she achieved her goal and then some, inserting herself into the lives of dozens of wise guys - Italian mobsters were her preference - and becoming addicted to the rush of danger and lawlessness. But after years of violence, a brutal gang rape, and finally, threats against her daughter, she turned the tables on those who betrayed her and became a government informant, wearing a wire and ultimately becoming a major witness in the government's successful case against the Colombo crime family, bringing down the notorious Anthony Scarpeti.