The Polish Mafia: Guns, Drugs and Murder in the Wild, Wild East

By Christopher Othen

Welcome to a world of Adidas, Kalashnikovs, and organized crime. After the fall of communism, the most dangerous Mafia you've never heard of ran Poland as their own private playground and wallowed in all the luxury that Eastern Europe had to offer-until someone at the heart of the gang turned traitor and brought it all crashing down in a bloody round of murder and betrayal.

Most Europeans know Poland for pierogi, cheap domestic staff, and questionable LGBTQ+ policies. But back in the years after the fall of communism it was a gangster state where criminals bled the country dry while police and politicians looked the other way. You can't understand Poland until you know what it was like to live there when the Cold War ended and everyone in this poor, icy corner of Eastern Europe was trying to get rich or die trying.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803995475
• ISBN13: 9781803995472
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"