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441) Batman: White Knight
Author
Series
Batman white knight volume 2
Publisher
DC Black Label
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The impossible has happened: the Joker has become... sane. Now calling himself Gotham's newest protector, the Joker now spearheads a task force to take down the dangerous masked vigilante known as Batman. Visionary creator Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus, American Vampire) unveils his radical take on the greatest rivalry in comics in Batman: White Knight! After years of epic battles, the Dark Knight finally finds a way to cure the twisted mind of his...
442) The pigeon
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Harvard dropout and ex-Special Forces operative Joe Brody is climbing the ranks in the criminal underworld...Which is why his newest task--retrieving a pet pigeon snatched from a rooftop coop in Brooklyn--has Joe puzzled--until he learns that the bird isvalued at close to a million dollars. Joe hatches a plan to sneak into the luxury park-side apartment building where the pigeon is held captive. But that simple plan takes a deadly turn when he stumbles...
443) The Godfather
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
Author
Series
Borgata trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting history of the Mafia's first one hundred years, from 1860's Sicily to 1960's America—narrated by a former high-ranking crew leader. The culmination Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting...
Author
Publisher
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This report assesses the activities of organized crime groups, terrorist groups, and narcotics traffickers in general in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, focusing mainly on the period since 1999. Some of the related topics discussed, such as governmental and police corruption and anti-money-laundering laws, may also apply in part to the three TBA countries in general in addition to the TBA. This is unavoidable because...
Author
Publisher
Midway, an Agate Imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Created from the Chicago Tribune's vast archives, Gangsters and Grifters is a collection of photographs featuring infamous criminals, small-time bandits, hoodlums, and more at shocking crime scenes. These vintage glass-plate and acetate negatives were taken from the early 1900s through the 1950s, and they have been largely unseen for generations. That is because most have never been published, only having been witnessed by the photographers and police...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on Americas social fabric and business enterprises while emerging as the nations most formidable crime empire. The vanguard of this criminal juggernaut is still led by the Mafias most potent and largest borgatas: New Yorks Five Families. Five Families is the vivid story of the rise and fall of New Yorks premier...
450) Shadowed loyalty
Author
Publisher
Chrism Press, a division of WhiteFire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Shadowed Loyalty, set amid the glitz and scandal of the Roaring Twenties, examines what love really means and how we draw lines between family and our own convictions, especially when following one could mean losing the other."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A brand-new novel from New York Times bestselling author Robert Littell, A Plague on Both Your Houses is a thrilling tale of love and war. On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered a ten-minute televised speech announcing his resignation as Soviet president. Moments later, with little pomp and less circumstance, the red flag was lowered from its floodlit perch atop the Kremlin, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Into the vacuum-before...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 2018, a powerful app for secure communications, called Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary safeguards to keep out prying eyes--the power to quickly wipe data, voice-masking technology, and more. It was better than other apps popular among organized crime syndicates, except for one thing: it was secretly run by law enforcement. Over the next few years, the FBI, along with law enforcement...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Who really killed "Crazy Joe" Gallo? At last, the truth can be told. And it wasn't Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran as he claimed. From acclaimed true-crime author Michael Benson and real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the shocking and brutal story ofCarmine DiBiase-aka Sonny Pinto-the elusive Mafia killer who went from small-time street punk to FBI's Most Wanted list to Death Row-only to be released on the streets to kill and kill again...among...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Immortal Dragon, once the fiercest members of the yakuza, is now a married man devoted to supporting his loving wife as a househusband, but when he needs to make some quick cash to buy her a present, he turns to the only skills he knows and gets his first part-time job.
"It’s a day in the life of your average househusband—if your average househusband is the legendary yakuza “the Immortal Dragon”! A former yakuza legend leaves it all...
456) Fools die: a novel
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
“A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather. Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve into the dangerous underbelly of American life. From Las Vegas to New York to Hollywood, there is one thing that remains constant: organized crime and the law are...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In The Deadly Don, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso--from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family which tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With Wilson Fisk behind bars, Matt thinks his efforts to bring order to Hell2s Kitchen are succeeding, until chaos reignites with two new arrivals: Frank Castle (a.k.a. The Punisher), an anguished ex-soldier determined to visit bloody, irrevocable 'justice' upon his adversaries, and Matt's volatile old flame Elektra Natchios. Meanwhile, a lethal, relentless source of ancient evil continues to amass power.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It’s a day in the life of your average househusband—if your average househusband is the legendary yakuza “the Immortal Dragon”! A former yakuza legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday househusband. But it’s not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but! The legendary yakuza “the Immortal Dragon” has washed his hands of the gangster life for something far more...
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