SHADOWLAND: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE MAFIA’S GLOBAL GAMBLING CONSPIRACY
Book ID/图书代码： 08430011B44701
English Summary/英文概要： Shadowland is a revelatory and dramatic true-life thriller spanning much of the twentieth century, a page-turning chronicle of an elaborate Mafia plan to ‘invade’ Europe using 1960s London as a bridgehead. The capital city of the Swinging Sixties was also a world of gambling, guns and gangsters. Several veterans of the era are astonished that they survived it and some feel protected enough – now that most of the killers are now themselves dead – to reveal to bestselling author Douglas Thompson the until now taboo details and secrets of one of history’s greatest criminal conspiracies, and of how world champion boxer Freddie Mills really died.
The tension in this real-life narrative is ferocious as the tale moves from London to New York and Las Vegas, down to Miami, into Havana, then on to the Bahamas and back to an unexpected denouement in London. Brutal, terrifying and intrigue-packed, it is a Machiavellian account of the Mob’s global manipulation of governments and officials.
Shadowland recounts events from the viewpoint of the pawns as well as the kingmakers. All the big players of Mafia history are here, controlled by the gangster genius Meyer Lansky. But so are the hit men, the fixers, the hoodlums and the wise guys.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《幻界》具有启迪意义，源于真实生活，是一部引人入胜的惊险小说，故事时间涉及整个20世纪，堪称一部具有划时代意义的编年史，书中描写黑手党精心谋略，欲把20世纪60年代的伦敦作为桥头堡“入侵”欧洲。
Swinging Sixties 这个城市到处充斥着赌博，枪支，黑帮横行。那个时代的一些老兵对于还能够生活在这样的世界感到震惊，有些人感觉到他们受到的保护已经足够了–显然多数的杀手已经死亡了–这种感觉一直持续到禁令的细枝末节和历史最大犯罪密谋的秘密，以及世界一流拳击手弗雷迪米尔斯死亡的真正原因被著名作家道格拉斯 汤普森揭开为止。
此真实叙述的内容显得颇为残忍，故事场景从伦敦到纽约和拉斯维加斯，转至迈阿密，其次是哈瓦那，之后进入到巴哈马群岛，最终以难以预料的结果在伦敦终结。残忍，骇人，充满了阴谋，暴徒们通过不择手段的方式控制着全球的政府和官员。
《幻界》中点明了从兵卒至拥立国王者的各种观点。所有的被恶徒Meyer Lansky 控制的黑手党历史的傀儡们在书中皆有提及。同样提及的还有那些打手，毒枭，地痞和智者。(兼职翻译-PZ)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 道格拉斯 汤普森出过20多本书籍。他在萨福克的一个仿中世纪的房屋和加利福尼亚州有不一样的生活。
Douglas Thompson has written more than 20 books. He divides his time between a medieval house in Suffolk and California.
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