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Organized Crime Queens The Secret World of Female Gangsters From the bizarre world of female Japanese motorcycle gangs to the historic rise and fall of London's Forty Elephants, the history of female organized crime is both fascinating and strange. These are the stories, both true and legendary of the female crime bosses that broke the mould of feminine gentility. This is The Secret World of Female Gangsters. Most of society thinks of women as the gentler sex, the sex with more compassion and empathy, not prone to violence. The truth is history, and current events, are littered with stories of…mehr

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Organized Crime Queens The Secret World of Female Gangsters From the bizarre world of female Japanese motorcycle gangs to the historic rise and fall of London's Forty Elephants, the history of female organized crime is both fascinating and strange. These are the stories, both true and legendary of the female crime bosses that broke the mould of feminine gentility. This is The Secret World of Female Gangsters. Most of society thinks of women as the gentler sex, the sex with more compassion and empathy, not prone to violence. The truth is history, and current events, are littered with stories of violent women who do whatever it takes to get what they want; women who either revel in, or accept as needed, whatever acts of torture, murder and depravity that are required to achieve their goals. We're not talking about mundane psychopaths that kill their children and their husbands; or homicidal maniacs that kill randomly without purpose, other than for some sexual or psychological gratification. We're talking about female organized crime bosses, leaders of highly structured, often successful criminal organizations. Most everyone knows about the high profile male mobsters; people like Lucky Luciano, Myer Lansky, Bugsy Segal, Arnold Rothstein, and Al Capone: men who became legends, rightly or wrongly, due to the public's insatiable appetite for literature, movies, and television stories based on their lives. But what about their female counterparts, they definitely existed and still exist. Their stories are both fascinating and cautionary. Their histories provide an alternative perspective on the equality of the sexes; everything has a price. We are talking about smart, capable, talented, ruthless women who under other circumstances might have become leaders in either business or politics; women who demanded respect, loyalty and a
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Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia.com a small media production company that specializes in Web video, audio, music, and sound design. He is responsible for developing concepts for clients' video campaigns, writing the scripts, and managing the production process. Over the years he's written over a hundred articles on marketing, and he's self-published three marketing e-books and a couple of free e-magazines. Currently he has turned his attention to writing a number of Neo Noir Hybrid Graphic Novels and story concepts with the goal of turning them into television series or feature films. There are currently eight screenplays in The Method series. The Method Graphic Novel has been chosen by Blurb to be used has an example of what can be done with cross-platform multimedia book publishing and was featured at Comic-Con. He has also written a novel, The Fixer that is being published by Rebel Seed Entertainment. The Fixer is based on the true-life story of a colorful horse racing character. He is also working with Film Producer, Laura Cross of Rebel Seed Entertainment to turn The Fixer into a Limited Television Series. For more information: http://www.rebelseedentertainment.com/project-thefixer/.