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A culture of mobsterism and corruption broadens the opportunities for recruiting thieves.
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A culture of mobsterism and corruption broadens the opportunities for recruiting thieves.
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To those who opposed his fraudulent regime, the casinos, nightclubs, sex trade, and mobsterism in the capital city became a symbol of everything they despised about the plundering of Cuba by outside interests.
'Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba… and Then Lost It to the Revolution' 2008
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It's kind of a wonderful thing, the imagination -- the author photo outs Westlake as a pencilneck who probably never even shoplifted, Cooke is a Canadian, where there's absolutely no history of crime fiction much less mobsterism, and the non-Italian "syndicate/outfit/organization" is pure fantasy, and yet this reads as an authentic thriller, albeit one with more of a superhero bent.
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