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Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Del Rey mass market edition.
Physical Desc
722 pages : map ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Vowing to bring down the crime boss running the city, a group of Gentlemen Bastards, led by Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own game, taking on other thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and thugs in the process.
2) Don't blink
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
4) Black duck
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
5) Gangster
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Angelo Vestieri runs from his past and his father, and seeks out a second family--a family of criminals who preside over early-twentieth-century New York. His rise from soldier to boss leads him into betrayals, and to an abandoned boy who needs a parent as well as protection.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Author
Series
Sam Levitt mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Unable to resist an exciting job offer in Marseille, Sam Levitt and his girlfriend Elena find their happy return to the region's coastal sunshine and delectable cuisine challenged by an increasingly violent competition for waterfront property.
Author
Series
Coughlin novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent...
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more 'legit' life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the...
10) The lost ninja
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 113
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Revised edition].
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"You trained in Japan to become a powerful ninja, and now your skills are needed in San Francisco. You are far from the magical dojo you once called home. But has the dojo's strange curse followed you into your new life? You recognize ruthless gangsters you've crossed paths with before. Did they follow you here? You hear rumors that priceless antiques are making their way along the same route you just traveled--will the thefts be blamed on you?"--...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Hardcover.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe's grandmother's refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo's mom has been shot dead. We're gonna kill the guys who killed her Bimbo swears. And they all agree. Feral with grief, Bimbo has become unrecognizable, taking no prisoners in his search...
12) North of nowhere
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
13) Hot springs
Author
Series
Earl Swagger novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
478 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1946, and corruption is flourishing in Hot Springs, AR. Visitors flock there to bathe in the mineral-rich waters, but it's prostitution and gambling that bring prosperity to the mobsters who run the town. Newly elected county prosecutor Fred C. Becker thinks that cleaning up Hot Springs is his ticket to a higher office and recruits decorated World War II marine Earl Swagger, father of Hunter's recurring character Bob Lee Swagger, to run the operation....
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
321 Pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On a fateful July morning in 2015, a riot takes hold of Her Majesty's Prison in Bream, Gloucestershire, with fatal consequences. The staff is caught completely off-guard--their supervising warden, Governor Magda Lyle, hasn't shown up for work, and the prisoners are able to start a fire that nearly results in a mass escape. Three years later and forty miles south, a most controversial wedding is about to take place in Bath's gorgeous Abbey, with a...
15) Tear it down
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues. Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter needs to be on the move, so she sends him to Memphis to help her friend Wanda Wyatt, a photographer and war correspondent who's been receiving peculiar threats. When Peter...
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