Christian Cipollini
Christian Cipollini is an award-winning author, comic book creator, lecturer and organized crime historian from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. His work has been featured in Real Crime Magazine, The Mob Museum Blog, Informer Journal, and he’s frequently quoted digital and print media. As a consultant and expert in the realms of American gangsterism and International narcotrafficking, he’s appeared on numerous television documentary and true crime series from networks including The History Channel, REELZ, and National Geographic. Always with multiple projects in the works at any given moment, Cipollini’s next planned release will be the memoirs of cartel hitman El Mano Negra.
Works

Murder Inc.: Mysteries of the Mob's Most Deadly Hit Squad
Nothing like it before. Nothing like it since. Murder Inc. was the most unusual, brutal and extensive collection of characters the American underworld had ever produced. Culled primarily from Brooklyn's Brownsville and Ocean Hill sections, these official on-call killers of New York's larger crime Syndicate were a unified force of Jewish and Italian gangsters that treated murder as an art form for an entire decade. They were called mobsters, thugs, hoods and racketeers, but at the very core... they were assassins. When gangland kingpins, such as Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, needed a contract fulfilled - the "Combination" boys would eagerly take to task the enforcement duties, which included methods ranging from gunfire to fire axes, incineration to icepicks. These are the mysteries, the sordid stories, the character profiles, alluring and lesser known tales of the Mob's Most Deadly Hit Squad. Meet the killers, the victims, the bosses, the lovers, the deceivers and the gangbusters that made up a nationally-reaching ensemble cast rivaling anything organized crime or law enforcement had ever imagined to that point in time. Discover the nuances, the attitudes, the motivations, the ambitions and, thanks to little honor among thieves, the scathing revelations that lead to an inevitable downfall.
With information culled from rare news reports, government documents and numerous books written on the subject, and over 50 rare photographs from the author’s personal collection, this book will give readers a chance to discover – in some very new ways- the major and minor players of gangdom’s most violent decade.
Lucky Luciano: Mysterious Tales of a Gangland Legend
Diary of a Motor City Hitman: The Chester Wheeler Campbell Story
Awards and Recognition
- 2019 Pinnacle Awards - Blogs, The Mob Museum Blog
- 2015 Hollywood Book Awards - Best Nonfiction