Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles Audiobook (Free)

A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the town of Angels-the true events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story from the secretive law enforcement device that waged an anything-goes war to operate a vehicle Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD released the Gangster Squad with eight guys who fulfilled covertly on street sides and about Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for LA slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, everything that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack port O’Mara was a square-jawed cathedral usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick. About all that they had in common was their obsession. So O’Mara established a capture to confirm Mickey was a killer. And Wooters formed an alliance with Mickey’s budding rival, Jack port ‘The Enforcer’ Whalen. Two cops — two hoodlums. Their fates collided in the closing days of the 1950s, when past due one night time ‘The Enforcer’ confronted Mickey and his team. The aftermath would tremble both LA’s mob and police department, and sign the end of a defining period in the city’s history.

In 2008, award-winning journalist Paul Lieberman’s seven-part Los Angeles Moments series ‘Tales from the Gangster Squad’ was optioned by Warner Bros. He spent over a decade tracking down making it through members of the true police unit as well as families and associates of the mobsters they pursued. GANGSTER SQUAD is usually a tour-de-force narrative reminiscient of LA Confidential.