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Beano X. Bates, a con man known as "King Con," is nearly beaten to death by a New Jersey crime boss and considers leaving his life as a grifter for good. But before he quits, he makes plans to perform one final scam that will ruin the boss and his Mob family forever.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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"Four friends, recent college graduates, caught in a terrible job market, joke about turning to kidnapping to survive. And then, suddenly, it's no joke. For two years, the strategy they devise--quick, efficient, low risk--works like a charm. Until they kidnap the wrong man. Now two groups they've very much wanted to avoid are after them--the law, in the form of veteran state investigator Kirk Stevens and hotshot young FBI agent Carla Windermere, and...
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"One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain of the Irish mob, and the men who work for him, men who...
8) Killshot
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English
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Two witnesses to a crime are removed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in the Federal Witness Security Program--no picnic, even though they are innocent victims rather than plea-bargaining mobsters.
9) The target
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
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English
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Federal judge Ramsey Hunt, having retreated to the Rockies to escape the notoriety following a violent incident in his courtroom, finds himself drawn into another deadly situation when he discovers a small, obviously abused little girl in the forest.
11) Safe men
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Sam and Eddie are a pair of inept lounge singers who, after being mistaken by the mafia for master safecrackers, find themselves pulling off a series of heists in the burglary business.
12) The fall
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How far would you go to save your life and your world? After a nasty divorce, single mother Joanne Lessing finally has her life together, and she's made a name for herself as a photographer. Then, while on assignment, she witnesses a hit and run. Property damage only. No big deal, she thinks. So she does the right thing-calls the cops. Joanne is dismayed when FBI agents arrive with the local detective. They admit the hit and run driver was a mob killer...
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When a prosecutor is threatened by dangerous criminals, she finds refuge with the Texas Ranger she never stopped loving in this romantic suspense novel.
When district attorney Tory Carson returns home after a long day in court prosecuting a gang leader, she finds her house trashed. Concerned that the vandalism is connected to the trial, the local police chief calls the Texas Rangers . . . and her former love Cade Morgan responds.
Tory's history...
14) Swindle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
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Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that maybe his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls"--
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Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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An award-winning Scandinavian novel of one woman's struggle to pull herself and her daughter from the grasp of a criminal past. "A literary tour de force" ( Mystery Scene Magazine ). A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize, The White City is an arresting story of betrayal and empowerment as a criminal's girlfriend is left behind to pick up the pieces of her imploded existence. Karin knew...
18) A small deceit
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Viking
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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A convicted rapist, but never convicted murderer encounters someone from his past which leads to threats and blackmail for many people.
20) Nightkill
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Forge
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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Jake, a freelance hit man for the mob, is paralyzed and believed to be out of action for good after being shot by Fredo, a henchman for mafia godfather Mr. C., but an experimental medical program aimed at rebuilding spinal cords puts Jake back on his feet and ready for revenge.
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