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1) Infamous
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A seemingly straightforward kidnapping-for-ransom scheme by 1930s gangster "Machine Gun" Kelly is thrown into near-whimsical chaos by the greed of two partners, a determined former Texas Ranger, and Kelly's two-faced wife.
Author
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Charles "Lucky" Luciano is America's most powerful mobster. He even dominates the underworld from prison with a deadly strong arm. In the mountains of Nazi-occupied Sicily, a 23-year-old nun and a suave British intelligence operative parachute with Lucky from the air on a mission. They are to enlist the aid of the Sicilian Mafia to pave the way for the Allied invasion of Italy.
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 1
Description
A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles. By the author of White Jazz.
5) Broken
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken....
In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption, Broken is number-one international best seller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best.
In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private...
6) Pulp fiction
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
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