The Dark Heart of Hollywood: Glamour, Guns and Gambling – Inside the Mafia's Global Empire

by Douglas Thompson

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This book reveals the sinister true story of the Mafia in Hollywood. Crammed with legends, myths, murders, madness, mayhem, superstar tantrums, super-sexed starlets, power brokers and politics, it is an ambitious account of Hollywood’s hidden history, from the rogue cops who took on the Mob on the streets of Los Angeles to the stars who became stars because Mafia Godfathers said they would.

In The Dark Heart of Hollywood, seasoned crime and entertainment writer Douglas Thompson reveals how all is masterminded by the money-obsessed Mafia, for whom everything and everyone is simply a commodity. The intense saga charges across America: from Hollywood bedrooms to the Oval Office, from California’s twenty-first century computer capital to the cocaine-connection HQs stretching from the Sunset Strip to Marseilles, Milan, Moscow, Tokyo and Beijing.

In this magnificent and highly compelling volume, Hollywood is unveiled as Tinseltown without the tinsel.
  • ISBN10 1780576102
  • ISBN13 9781780576107
  • Publish Date 9 May 2013 (first published 6 September 2012)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Mainstream Publishing
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 368
  • Language English