Ron Chepesiuk
Best Selling Author, Investigative Journalist & Movie Producer
About Ron Chepesiuk
Ron is an award-winning author of 25 books and more than 4,000 magazine, newspaper and Internet articles. A Fulbright Scholar and an instructor in the Journalism Department of UCLA's Extension Division, Ron has appeared on several national television programs to talk about gangsters and organized crime.
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Sergeant Smack:
The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin and his Band of Brothers
Sergeant Smack documents how Ike Atkinson, not Frank Lucas, pioneered the Asian heroin connection.
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The Trafficantes - Godfathers from Tampa, Florida: The Mafia, the CIA and the JFK Assassination
In this page-turning narrative, noted true crime writer Ron Chepesiuk chronicles the story of one of history’s lesser known but most important mob dynasties.
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Black Gangster of Chicago
Black Gangsters of Chicago takes readers through the annals of black organized crime in Chicago, from the very first black gangsters to Willie Lloyd—the now wheelchair-bound and imprisoned former leader of the Vice Lords.
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Gangsters of Harlem
In this riveting narrative, Chepesiuk tells the little-known story of organized crime in Harlem through in-depth profiles of the major gangs and gangsters whose exploits have made them legends.
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Drug Lords
The rise and fall of one of Colombia’s most notorious drug cartels is a story of how organized crime can function at the most sophisticated levels, yet still be taken down by the very forces it seeks to evade.
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