Most Popular Books by Peter Maas

Story of Larry Barcella, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and his pursuit of rogue CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson who illegally shipped arms to Libya''s Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi.

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.

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

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

True story of life inside the Costa Nostra.

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

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 New York executive finds his relationship with his son changed and his life endangered when he becomes involved in an IRA gun running plot.

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.

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)

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.

Chronicles Gypsy life in the United States today, centering on the still unresolved struggle for leadership between Steve Tene, grandson of the late King Tene Bimbo, and his embittered, vengeful father.

Beschrijving van de organisatie en activiteiten van de Amerikaanse mafia, de Cosa Nostra, gebaseerd op de onthullingen van één van zijn leden in de gevangenis

This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. It provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis.

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.

A true-life thriller about the greatest espionage case in American history -- the pursuit, capture, & conviction of the CIA''s murderous mole, Aldrich (Rick) Ames. With the FBI''s cooperation, Maas goes behind the headlines & provides an exclusive hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute, account of how FBI counterintelligence agents, despite setbacks & mishaps, never gave up as they closed in on Ames & his Colombian-born wife. For nearly 9 years, occupying some of the most sensitive positions in the CIA, Ames successfully evaded detection by his agency superiors, even the CIA''s best agents. Finally, the agency came to the FBI for help.