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Books like Public Enemies

24 books recommended for fans of Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough, tied together by themes of Organized Crime, Law Enforcement, Criminology, and True Crime.

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Top related books to Public Enemies

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Queen of Thieves The True Story of “Marm” Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York

J. North Conway

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

Drugs As Weapons Against Us The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists

John L. Potash

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

Sam Giancana

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

Gangster Squad Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles

Paul Lieberman

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

Killing the Mob The Fight Against Organized Crime in America — Bill O’Reilly

Bill O'Reilly

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

Secret Partners Big Tom Brown and the Barker Gang

Timothy Mahoney

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

Public Enemies America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

Bryan Burrough

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • True Crime

Killing Pablo The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw

Mark Bowden

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

Chaos The Truth Behind the Manson Murders — Tom O’Neill

Tom O'Neill

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminology • True Crime

#10

Blood and Power Organized Crime in Twentieth-century America

Stephen R. Fox

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminology • True Crime

#11

JFK and Sam The Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy Assassinations

Antoinette Giancana

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminology • True Crime

#12

Mexican Cartels An Encyclopedia of Mexico’s Crime and Drug Wars

David Marley

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#13

Covert Operations Unveiling Organized Crime Using Operation Donnie Brasco to Understand the Complex Trauma of Deep Cover

Daniel M Rudofossi

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#14

War on Crime Bandits, G-men, and the Politics of Mass Culture

Claire Bond Potter

Themes: Law Enforcement • Criminology • True Crime

#15

Crossing the Line Losing Your Mind as an Undercover Cop

Christian Plowman

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#16

Smuggler’s Blues A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Book 1)

Richard Stratton

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#17

The Blue Wall of Silence Secrets Revealed Behind Police Abuse and Corruption

Alex Quinn

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#18

The War on Drugs in the Americas

Christopher M. White

Themes: Law Enforcement • Criminology • True Crime

#19

Black Mass The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob

Dick Lehr

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#20

Snowblind A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

Robert Sabbag

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#21

Good Cop, Bad War

Neil Woods

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#22

Gangster Warlords Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

Ioan Grillo

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#23

Organized Crime

Michael D. Lyman

Themes: Organized Crime • Law Enforcement • Criminology

#24

Circle of Treason A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed

Sandra V Grimes

Themes: Law Enforcement • Criminology • True Crime

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough. Connected by Organized Crime, Law Enforcement, Criminology. Authors featured include J. North Conway, John L. Potash, Sam Giancana, Paul Lieberman, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.