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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A mob saga that has it all-brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems utterly unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read."
- Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Force
A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America's top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.
By the...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
While on vacation, a married couple unwittingly befriends a flamboyant and charismatic Russian named Dima, who, unbeknownst to them, is a kingpin money launderer for the mafia. When Dima confides to his new friends that he plans to escape from the mob, they're quickly swept into the dangerous world of international espionage. The unlikely companions must undertake a perilous journey through Paris, Bern, and London in order to save Dima and his family....
63) The Godfather
Series
Description
Revenge, envy, and parent-child conflict mix with the rituals of Italian mob life in America. Includes fully restored film and the original and provocative Director's commentary.
64) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Description
""If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense." -- Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But...
66) The Informer
Author
Description
Ex-con and former special operations soldier Pete Koslow has been recruited by the FBI to go undercover and take down New York's most powerful crime boss. When he finds himself caught in the crossfire between the mob and the law, he's forced to return to prison. Koslow must now devise a plan to escape in order to save himself and his family.
67) Forget About It
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Three retired war vets living in a retirement trailer park are being chased by the Mafia and the feds after they stumble across money stolen from the mob by one of their new neighbors, who was moved there by the witness protection program.
68) GoodFellas
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A dramatization of one man's life in the Mafia over a period of three decades. Includes two theatrical trailers.
70) Gas City
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Formats
Description
In the wake of a serial killer's brutal rampage, a power struggle between a police chief, a powerful Mafia boss, and media reporters in search of a big story turns a city dominated by an oil company upside down as greed, corruption, and ambition spiral out of control.
71) The tourist
Formats
Description
During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
73) The juror
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
"Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a routine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial. It is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchestrated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision. A man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu ... whose magnetism is irresistible...
74) Gangster nation
Author
Series
Gangsterland volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
It's been two years since the events of Gangsterland, when legendary Chicago hitman Sal Cupertine disappeared into the guise of Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. It's September of 2001 and for David, everything is coming up gold: Temple membership is on the rise, the new private school is raking it in, and the mortuary and cemetery--where Cohen has been laundering bodies for the mob--is minting cash. But Sal wants out. He's got money stashed in safe-deposit...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
She sees dead people
Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life -- until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud, her wealthy fiancé took a powder, and the family fortune ran bone dry.
Suddenly desperate, the inexperienced ex-rich girl was forced to take the only job she could get: as a tour guide in a cemetery. But a grave situation took a turn for the worse when a head-on collision with a headstone left her...
77) Gangster squad
Description
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop, except for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders who come...
78) AnalyzeThis
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A Mafioso decides he needs a psychotherapist and the doctor he chooses isn't pleased to be chosen to make the don a well-adjusted gangster.
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
"His separation hasn't 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. Hell hath no fury like The Sopranos." -back cover
80) Wannabes
Description
When two brothers, Angelo and the younger Paulie, get into a fight, it's broken up by the local Mafia don, the much feared and respected Santo. Fed up with their dead-end jobs, Angelo, Paulie and two friends abandon the 9-5 grind and get mixed up with the local Mafia. They soon find out the hard way that in the mob, you're either made men or you're Wannabes.