Balls
(Barricade Books, 2009)

Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster but he never wanted to be part of the mob. For 50 years, from the pre-Castro Havana casinos to Los Angeles, Trascher stole from mob-owned casinos, scammed gangsters, and was one of the top bookies in the country. He capped his career as a confidential informant for Florida law enforcement and was the source for getting inside the Trafficante Mafia family. Balls is written by Scott Deitche and Ken Sanz. Sanz is a former Florida Department of Law enforcement special agent, and was Eddie's handler and friend for over 20 years.

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The Silent Don:
The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante Jr.
 

Santo Trafficante Jr. was The Silent Don. For thirty years he was the mob boss of Tampa, running a criminal empire stretching from the Gulf Coast of the United States into the Caribbean. Under his father, Santo Sr., the young Trafficante rose through the ranks of the local Mafia while solidifying ties with mob families across the country.
By the 1950’s Santo Trafficante Jr. extended his reach across Florida and down to the island paradise of Cuba. He was the most influential mobster in Havana and ran a cadre of casinos with mobsters from New York to Chicago. After the fall of Batista and the rise of Castro, Santo became embroiled in the shadowy matrix of covert CIA operations, drug trafficking, plots to kill Castro, and ultimately the JFK assassination. But Trafficante never spent a night in an American jail. He was quiet yet cagey, unassuming yet powerful. Trafficante’s erudite understanding of the interwoven network of corrupt politicians, heads of state, non-traditional ethnic crime groups, and the Mafia enabled him to become one of the pivotal figures in the American Mafia during it’s heyday of power. The Silent Don combines court records, law enforcement reports, declassified documents, dozens of interviews, and other sources for the first look at the criminal career of one of the more enigmatic Mafia figures in history.

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