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by: Tony Rafael  List Price: $25.95 Amazon.com's Price: $17.13 You Save: $8.82 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 364.1060979494 EAN: 9781594031953 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1594031959 Label: Encounter Books Manufacturer: Encounter Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 250 Publication Date: July 25, 2007 Publisher: Encounter Books Studio: Encounter Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-strong street army that is eager to advance its agenda. It waves the flag of the Black Hand and its business is murder. Although known on the streets for over fifty years, the Mexican Mafia has flown under the radar of public awareness and has flourished beneath a deep cover of secrecy. Members are forbidden even to acknowledge its existence. For the first time in its history, the Mexican Mafia is now getting the attention it has been striving to avoid. In this briskly written and thoroughly researched book, Tony Rafael looks at the birth and the blood-soaked growth of this criminal enterprise through the eyes of the victims, the dropouts, the cops and DAs on the front lines of the war against the Mexican Mafia. The first book ever published on the subject, Southern Soldiers is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique of inmates into a transnational criminal organization. As the first prison gang ever to project its power beyond prison walls, the Mexican Mafia controls virtually every Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California and is rapidly expanding its influence into the entire Southwest, across the East Coast, and even into Canada. Riding a wave of unchecked immigration and seemingly beyond the reach of law enforcement, the Mexican Mafia is poised to become the Cosa Nostra of twenty-first-century America. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent BookI really like the book, i was not expecting to read about the trails but overall it was a good book. I read the bood in a week and i would read it again. Rating:  - The Bad and the Ugly Detailed"The Mexican Mafia", Tony Rafael, NY, Encounter Books, 2007, ISBN: -13: 978-1-5 9403-195-3-, HC, 362 (372) pgs. Includes Introd. 6 pg., Contents 1 pg., & Prologue 4 pg., & chart of 37 Eme members, associates, workers, etc., & Index 10 pgs. 9 1/4" x 6 1/2". A writer based in Los Angeles with a decade of active gangland researching via live interviews with gang members gives his revealing accounting of the history of Hispanic gangs, the Mexican Mafia, and the methodology used by law in ... Read More Rating:  - No StarsThis book was GARBAGE. I thought it was going to be like Machine Gun Mundos' book (Mexican Mafia), but, was not! Very disappointing. This guy is obsessed with The Avenues targeting Blacks. Well, Sr. Rafael: Get your facts straight! Why didn't you write anything about blacks targeting Mexicans? This has been going on for years, and I don't see the Media/books saying anything about this. And what the hell does this have to with IMMIGRATION? Jesus Christ, no wonder there is a green ... Read More Rating: - A well researched and investigated bookA well researched and investigated book. If you want to learn about the Mexican Mafia then read this book. Although it is a little too cop/prosecutor orientated it is still good- you just have to skip the cop parts to get to the good gangster stuff. But not a bad read by any means. I would like to see something from Tony Rapheal with more gangster profiles. I know he has it in him. Check out his blog, In the hat. Rating: - multiple-defendant homicide caseWell researched,deals mainly with small crew on trial for homicide.Detailed account of their exploits,fair amount of history coverd. One of the better books on la Eme. 
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