Best Selling Books by Peter Maas

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano''s story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

Examines the events surrounding the murder of Teresa Benigno Taylor--a wife and new mother. Her husband was arrested, but could he be convicted?

Offers a detailed account of U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen''s attempts to save thirty-three men who were trapped in a sunken submarine during the first days of World War II

The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority. Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for opera and ballet. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn''t be silenced -- or bought -- and he refused to go along with the system. He had sworn an oath to uphold the law, even if the perpetrators happened to be other cops. For this unwavering commitment to justice, Serpico nearly paid with his life.

Richie Flynn, a former pro football star, dreams of achieving success in a shady deal but instead finds himself living in a nightmare.

The rich and ruthless don of the new order of Asian Mafia hires Tom MacLean, a young, ambitious Manhattan lawyer and former prosecutor, to protect his interests. Slowly, MacLean begins to realize Deng''s real interests--ultimate control of the drug trade throughout the world and the distribution of "China White", the most potent heroin ever to hit the streets.

A true story of one woman, alone, who risked everything-her reputations, her financial security, even her life-to challange a ruthless political machine bent on corrupting an entire state.

Drawn by the anger and loyalties learned at a grandfather''s knee, second generation Irish-American Jamie McGuire has vanished into a world of explosive secrets and brutal betrayals. Now Jamie''s father, Michael -- an advertising executive with no allegiance to any cause -- must rescue his lost son from a violent place where revolution is the faith and freedom means death. But it may already be too late, for Jamie has been chosen to play two indispensable roles in a bloody, long-running international drama: scapegoat...and martyr.

From the author of the bestsellers "The Terrible Hours" and "Underboss" comes this fan favorite, unavailable since 1999. Maas tells an explosive story of the relationship between a father and son that stretches from the horrors of Northern Ireland to the savage streets of New York City. Soon to be a made-for-television film airing on NBC. (May)

In the waning days of the Cold War, Aldrich Ames systematically and cold bloodedly sent a dozen of the US''s best agents to their death, betraying them to the Soviets for more than two million dollars. This is the story of how he was finally caught.

This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. Relying on primary and secondary sources, it provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis. In considering what it means to think about teaching from a psychoanalytic perspective and in reviewing the various approaches to and theories about teaching and curriculum that have been informed by psychoanalysis in the twentieth century, Taubman uses the concept of disavowal and focuses on the effects of disavowed knowledge within both psychoanalysis and education and on the relationship between them. Tracing three historical periods of the waxing and waning of the medical/therapeutic and emancipatory projects of psychoanalysis and education, the thrust of the book is for psychoanalysis and education to come together as an emancipatory project. Supplementing the recent work of educational scholars using psychoanalytic concepts to understand teaching, education, and schooling, it works to articulate the stranded histories ─ the history of what could have been and might still be in the relationship between psychoanalysis and education.

Taubman offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education, and their impact on what it means to teach. He maps the totality of the transformation, taking into account the constellation of forces shaping it, and proposes an alternative vision of teacher education.

An heroic personal history and a breathtaking adventure written about Charles Bowers-Momsen''s pioneering rescue of the submarine Squalus.

The First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York''s Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob''s code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crimefrom the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers -- and where the bodies were buried -- Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America''s major crime figures. The rest is history. Never again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi''s name would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning exposE. broke the back of America''s Cosa Nostra and stands I today as the classic about America''s Mob, a fascinat ing tale of power and terror, big money, crime ... and murder.