Thank you all for your recommendations.
I was thinking that if you retold Godfathers I and II from
Fredo's persepctive (especially as played by John Cazale) -
now that would be a noir tale of desperation and doom. He
certainly got screwed out on Lake Tahoe.
--- "E.Borgers" <
webeurop@yahoo.fr> wrote:
--------------------------------- Mafia Noir is certainly not
a rarity. Maybe it's the US mafia, as topic, which became out
of fashion as it's not the top of organized crime
anymore.
Fortunately (?) other countries are reviving the flame, like
Russian mafia, Chinese mafia, Colombian mafia, Yakusas and
more, all of which we found now heavy traces in contemporary
noir.
Coming back to the classic mafia, do not forget the novels by
Max Allan Collins, built around historical figures of the
wise guys: there was the excellent: NEON MIRAGE- 1988 (about
Bugsy Siegel's Las Vegas), TRUE DETECTIVE, THE MILLION-DOLLAR
WOUND... all from his Nat Heller series.
Also some of the novels by E. Richard Johnson .
And there are much more.
E.Borgers HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
John Williams :
>Shane Stevens' Dead City. And, organised
crime-wise,
George V. Higgins'
>The Friends Of Eddie Coyle
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>John
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