499 Wilde Nights and Robber Barons (with Laura Lee)
The History of Literature
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The Structure of the Mafia
It sounds like they were more coordinated than I would have expected, but did they have a leader who was giving orders? Morris Schwab's brother Edgar was the crucial agent in Vladivostok, Russia. He sold Russian military secrets to the Japanese in the lead up to Russo-Japanese War. One of Morris Schwab’s closest partners in crime was Baron von Kenning, and he was a spy for the French de Zemburo.
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