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2) The enforcer
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1950
Language
English
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Description
A hard-hitting D.A. is facing the hottest case of the year. Armed with a killer's confession, a score of missing persons and a mob undertaker working full-time, he knows he's onto something. Relentless and determinded he tracks down a notorious murder for profit ring, headed by a killer named Mendoza.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The true history of organized crime. 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, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"As seen in The New Yorker An unprecedented look inside a deadly and obscenely wealthy branch of the Italian mafia and the electrifying story of the women who risked everything to bring them down. The Calabrian Mafia--known as the 'Ndrangheta--is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"From bootlegger Al Capone to "Teflon Don" John Gotti, mobsters have long frightened and fascinated the public. Their sometimes flamboyant but almost always violent lifestyles have inspired popular movies such as The Godfather and hit television shows like The Sopranos, but these romanticized depictions fall far short of the brutal reality of the criminal underworld." "The Mafia Encyclopedia, Third Edition offers an unflinching survey of the mob's...
Author
Series
Melody Grace McCartney novels volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"A woman who has lost her identity to the Witness Protection Program flirts with trusting her life to the Mafioso hired to kill her"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peters father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward a small South Philly gym. Peters cousin Michaelhis...
10) Mob land
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Deep in the heart of Dixie, in a small town struggling with the ravages of addiction, a local sheriff tries to maintain the peace when desperate family man Shelby robs a pill mill with his reckless brother-in-law, Trey. But the supposedly easy score takes a violent turn, alerting the New Orleans mafia's revenge-seeking enforcer, who threatens Shelby's wife and daughter. With its unpredictable twists and turns, Mob Land is a heart-pounding, action...
11) And then you die
Author
Series
Aurelio Zen mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy 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...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s, the broad legal mandate of the RICO act succeeded in crushing much of the traditional American Mafia. In the Sicilian homeland of La Cosa Nostra, however, the Mafia was anything but finished. Possessed of a power thought to rival that of the Italian state itself, the Sicilian Mafia has waged a war on law and order that has not only left thousands dead, but has created a ripple effect of crime and violence that can be felt in America's...
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Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For Aloysius Tucker, taking his nine-year-old cousin Maria sledding is all about frozen toes and hot coffee in the warming house. It shouldn't involve chasing after Maria as she's led into a long black car by a stranger in a Bruins jacket. But by the end of the crisp December morning Maria is gone, her mother is dead, and her father--mafia don Sal--has been arrested for murder.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. But while they long to settle into the comforts of home, Attorney General Robert Kennedy has other plans. He needs them to look into a potential threat not only to the presidency, but to the security of the United States itself. Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los...
17) The wrong girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In February of 1926, private detective Ted Oliver is hired by a mysterious client to investigate the death of Graham Peyton, a man known for recruiting high-class prostitutes for the studios until his disappearance five years ago. Thanks to a ferocious Pacific storm, Graham's skeleton is uncovered from its hiding place, under rocks beneath a cliff. As Oliver investigates the final days leading up to Graham's demise, he stumbles across a connection...
Author
Publisher
Trine Day LLC
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
The Dunes operation was intricate and mysterious at times, protected by secrecy and intrigue. It featured different operators and Mob characters who, at various times in the history of the hotel, were involved in various ventures, including gambling, bookmaking, real estate investment, and many other business arrangements.
"The intent behind this book is to record classic Las Vegas history that would be lost forever if not memorialized.” The Dunes...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Brothers Mafia Spies is the definitive account of Americas most remarkable espionage plots everwith CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly...
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