GANGLAND THE LAWYERS

Hardback, 1st edition. SIGNED. Gangland figures cannot function without their lawyers - their mouthpieces - who speak for them in court, obtain bail, throw doubt on the evidence and, if all that fails try to obtain a reduced sentence. This book is about those lawyers good and bad, honest and dishonest, self-sacrificing and sometimes evil, who have consistently defended the men and sometimes women who could be described as organised crime figures or career criminals. There are the mob lawyers: Frank Ragan, the Florida lawyer who acted for 3 mob leaders suspected of involvement in the killing of John F Kennedy; Dixie Davies who watched 'Dutch' Schultz kill a henchman in cold blood and Manny Fryde, adviser to the Kray twins and the cream of London's underworld. Also features James Sawyer, the barrister and forger who was involved in the first Great Train Robbery; Judge Joseph Peel who had his co-judge killed; New South Wales's Murray Farquat involved with the state's top drug dealers; Judge Thomas J Maloney, currently serving 16-yrs for corruption, plus many, many more. Illus., Bibliog. and Index. 344pp. 8vo. F. in vg. dw. With tipped-in label SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.