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Jimmy Breslin can sniff out a story like he can sniff out a rat. Here, he tells a lifetime of anecdotes in his inimitable New York voice, giving us a view through the keyhole of the people and places that define the Mafia-characters like Sammy the Bull, the original snitch and Gaspipe Casso, named for his weapon of choice; and hangouts like Pep McGuire's, the legendary watering hole where reporters and gangsters (all hailing from the same working...
4) The last don
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Don Domenico Clericuzio is determined to retire his Family from the seamier side of Mafia life, and announces his intention to pursue legitimate business interests, but secrets from the past threaten to undermine his plan.
6) L.A. times
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Vinnie Callabrese moves from the world of the Mafia in New York to the intrigues of tinseltown and carves a niche in the film industry until his old friends find him.
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Suki Sperakis, a young woman who moved to Key West for a better life, and Aaron Katz, a former Wall Street whiz who is trying to renovate an old guest house while caring for his increasingly eccentric father, stumble into the adventure of a lifetime when they become involved with the Russian mafia.
11) Sleeping dogs
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Former Mafia hit man, after hiding out for ten years in England, is forced to go back to the U.S. after someone tries to kill him and resumes his old profession.
12) 7 días
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Español
Description
A man decides to gamble a large sum of money to raise an even bigger sum--he wants to bring the world's biggest band, U2, to Mexico to play a concert.
Un promotor de recitales hace una apuesta con el capo mafioso para recaudar dinero para llevar al súper estelar conjunto U2 a su ciudad de Monterrey, y la pierde. Ahora tiene sólo siete días para pagar su deuda, pero a medida que se acerca el plazo, debe enfrentarse a una competencia implacable...
13) The client
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Eleven-year-old Mark Sway witnesses the bizarre suicide of a New Orleans attorney and is left with a deadly secret concerning a recent murder of a Louisiana Senator.
14) Caliber 9
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the first time of the Tirology, small-tiem gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he has {dollar}300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere. Caliber 9's stylized violence, fast-paced action sequence, tight editing and plot twists prefigure the...
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war rages between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob. Turning the tables on loan shark Shondor Birns and allying himself with gangster John Nardi, Greene stops taking orders from the mafia and pursues his own power.
19) Judge and jury
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Mob boss Dominic Cavello uses terror and murder to avoid conviction at his trial, but an FBI agent and a juror from the trial are determined to exact justice.
20) The boss
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part of his Milieu Trilogy- is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge. Lanzetta, a hired killed employed by Daniello...
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