Shadowland
Subtitle: how the mafia bet Britain in a global gamble
By: Douglas Thompson
Publisher: Mainstream
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781845967796
Subjects: Organized crime; True crime; History; Mafia; Gangsters
Description: Shadowland is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an elaborate Mafia plan to 'invade' Europe using 1960s London as a bridgehead. The capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also a world of gambling, guns and gangsters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.