The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

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Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba, one of the most notorious Russian mob bosses of our era.

Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. Biba, is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and hes survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Bibas story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America.

Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Bibas brutal upbringing left him hungry for moremore power, control, and money. Taking advantage of the rampant corruption in the Soviet Union, Bibas teenage hooliganism quickly turned into bolder black cash rackets, making him, by Soviet standards, a very rich young man. When authorities took notice and threatened him with the supreme measure execution by firing squadhe managed to get out of the USSR just in time.

Within months of landing in America, his intimidating presence and street smarts quickly made him legendary in the Soviet migr community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and launched him to the top of New Yorks Russian Jewish mob, one of the worlds most inventive, powerful and violent criminal organizations. After decades as a globe-trotting boss, and three stints in U.S. federal prisons he remains unbroken and unrepentant, even as his entire life has unraveled around him.

Now seventy-four years old, Biba is a lion in winter. Douglas Century vividly brings the notorious gangster to life in these pages, telling not only his epic journey but also the history of the Russian mob in America.

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Douglas Century recently collaborated on two New York Times Bestsellers: William Queen's Under and Alone and, with Rick Cowan, Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire (a finalist for the 2003 Edgar Award in Best Fact Crime).