Books like Capo by Peter Watson

A tale of baseball and economics

Michael Lewis explains how the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, focusing on subprime mortgages, CDOs, and the people who bet against the collapsing market.

A candid, semi‑autobiographical look at 1980s Wall Street, following Michael Lewis from Princeton art history student to bond salesman at Salomon Brothers, exposing the culture of greed, humor, and intense competition that defined the era.

Jordan Belfort’s memoir recounts his rise as the charismatic CEO of Stratton Oakmont, the 1990s brokerage that became a symbol of Wall Street excess, and his eventual downfall under SEC and FBI scrutiny.

Alfonso "Little Al" D’Arco, the first top Mafia boss to become a government witness, reveals the inner workings of New York’s organized crime in this compelling biography by Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins.

Jake is a journalist in a post-World War II Berlin trying to solve the mystery of a murder and the disappearance of a scientist.

A medieval mystery tale set during a civil war, where nobles must use their deductive skills to solve a murder and save an innocent man's life.

In 1867, a brutal murder in the isolated frontier settlement of Dove River spirals into a desperate search for a missing son, missing sisters, and a forgotten Native American culture, as outsiders race across the tundra to uncover a tangled web of crime and betrayal.

Anne Perry opens her five‑novel series with a chilling portrait of England during the First World War, blending suspenseful mystery with historical detail.

Three people aboard the 1931 transatlantic liner Empress of Britain find themselves entangled in a scheme that turns dark and deadly.

In the fields of a forgotten post-war Sicily, an obsession with power was growing. Salvatore 'Toto' Riina, the shrewd peasant Corleone, became the boss of bosses and Palermo was conquered, one crime at a time. With his small army of assassins, he seized control of the most formidable mafia in the world and began an attack on the state: bombs, massacres and bloody conflicts initiated by a man who thought he was invincible. Until 1992 and the murders of Falcone and Borsellino. Then Riina was captured after nearly a quarter of a century on the run, an event still shrouded in controversy. Now in prison for over twenty years, Toto Riina remains the dictator of the Cosa Nostra from behind bars. Through the genuine testimony of the Sicilian Corleone, this a tale of desperate poverty, power and bloodshed - and one man's fight to rule supreme.

In 1971 London, gang‑boss Annie Carter escapes New York for a new life, only to find her city invaded by betrayals. With her daughter, she must uncover the treacherous forces hunting her before they finish her off.