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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st large print ed.
Physical Desc
472 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Nick Pellisante finally captures mob boss Dominic Cavello. Two of Cavello's former employees are ready to testify against him when he hires a killer to make sure the trial never concludes.
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...
Author
Series
John Sutter volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cain Lemaire is an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. With help from his sister who's working in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. Cain ends up tangling with the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and unraveling a sex slavery ring"--
Cain Lemaire, an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans, had his dream job protecting the President until a scandal lost him his post. Needing a new direction...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation's most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially,...
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Language
English
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Description
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
8) Marked man
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Archer Mayor's Marked Man, the death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed. A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavor. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendor Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily....
10) Takedown twenty
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 20
Language
English
Description
"New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore 'Uncle Sunny' Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the...
11) The hike
Author
Series
Great Lakes saga volume 4
Publisher
Landon Beach
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brad Cranston is having a normal Friday afternoon in Shelter Harbor, Michigan when he receives a desperate call from his brother, who disappeared six years ago. Conrad?s message is clear: head south, bring a boat, do not involve the police, and there is a load of money involved - click. After enlisting the service of rookie Private Investigator Allison Shannon - a retired master diver who is haunted by her own demons - the two start to realize that...
12) About face
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti becomes involved in the investigation of a possible takeover of the waste disposal industry in Venice by the Mafia, and is surprised to discover the case has links to Franca Marinello, an intriguing woman, disfigured by excessive plastic surgery, Guido met at his in-laws' dinner party.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 780 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's tough times in Jersey for Tony Soprano. His separation has not been working out. His nephew's fiancee has become a distraction, his paroled cousin is giving off bad vibes. His business rival is looking for payback. His therapist isn't buying into the "two Tonys". It's enough to send any mob boss over the edge.
14) Loyalty
Author
Language
English
Description
Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the history of Sicily--forever.
Sicily, 1810. Franco Fiorvanti...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenage Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooning young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All is quiet in Paradise, except for a spate of innocuous vandalism. Good thing, too, because Jesse Stone is preoccupied with the women in his life, both past and present. As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime boss is brutally murdered. Despite all evidence...
18) Caliber 9
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 102 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
In the first time of the Tirology, small-tiem gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he has {dollar}300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere. Caliber 9's stylized violence, fast-paced action sequence, tight editing and plot twists prefigure the...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. And when Hollywood starts shooting...
20) The Sicilian
Author
Series
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1985, c1984
Physical Desc
548 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Michael Corleone is now at the end of his two-year exile in Sicily. The Godfather has charged him with a mission: not to return to America until he can find a young man named Salvatore Guiliano.
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