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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Douglas (Douglas Henry), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mafia--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Mafia.

Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

History.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--History--20th century.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).

California--Los Angeles.

California--Los Angeles--Hollywood.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Mainstream Publishing, 2013.

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.

Notes:

Originally published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781780576107

1780576102

OCLC:

833278717

Publisher Number:

99967731892