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In his inimitable New York voice, Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin gives us a look through the keyhole at the people and places that define the Mafia-characters like John Gotti, Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso (named for his weapon of choice), and Jimmy "the Clam" Eppolito-interwoven with the remarkable true-crime saga of the good rat himself, Burt Kaplan of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the star witness in the recent trial of two NYPD...
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"The grandson and great-grandson of Chicago police officers, Chicago Police Detective James Sherlock was CPD through-and-through. His career had seen its share of twists and turns, from his time working undercover to thwart robberies on Chicago's L trains, to his side gig working security at The Jerry Springer Show , to his years as a homicide detective. He thought he had seen it all. But on this day, he was at the records center to see the case file...
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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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"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...
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While investigating a suspicious death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the grounds of Aldwick Castle-and in the midst of utter chaos. The ramshackle castle is in flames-and a beautiful woman and four young girls are taking flight on horseback. It turns out that the strong-minded Miss Concordia Glade and her four bright students are on the run from a notorious London crime lord who'll stop at nothing to destroy them. Now, their...
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Brought up in the East End of London, son of a policeman, John was already dabbling in crime by his early teens, ending up in a young offenders institute and then a borstal. He'd left home at 15 and the only occupation he knew was theft. He landed a job doing security at concerts for stars such as Simply Red, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and was lured deeper into the world of drugs and crime. By his 20s he was well-acquainted with the capital's criminal...
10) The firm
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
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Mitch McDeere, a Harvard Law graduate, becomes suspicious of his Memphis tax firm when mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations.
11) Sunburn: a novel
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When word gets out that aging Mafia godfather Vincente Delgatto is going to write his memoirs, everybody from the FBI to the New York mob rushes to stop him.
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The Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys and wannabes working scams, extorting businesses, running gambling, selling drugs, and branching out into white collar crimes. And they are continuing a tradition that's over 100 years old. Some of the most powerful mobsters on a national level were from New Jersey, and they spread their tentacles down to Florida,...
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Painting a vivid picture of the scenes both inside and outside the courtroom and re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court in 2007, this narrative accurately portrays cold-blooded and sometimes incompetent killers and their crimes. In 1998, Frank Calabrese Jr. offered to wear a wire to help the FBI build a case against his father, Frank Sr., and his uncle Nick....
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Paul LeRoux nació en Zimbabue y se crio en Sudáfrica. Tras sus primeros trabajos como empresario pionero en la seguridad informática, se lanzó de cabeza al lado oscuro, utilizando su extraordinario talento para desarrollar un nuevo modelo de negocio en el crimen organizado. Por el camino, creó un grupo de mercenarios compuesto por antiguos francotiradores de EE.UU. y de la OTAN para llevar a cabo asesinatos por su propio placer y beneficio. El...
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The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's DeCavalcante crime family, the criminal organization known to law enforcement as "the real Sopranos"
Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten...
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Women of Southie tells the story of six women, who grew up in and, in most cases, still live in their beloved town of South Boston, a place sadly and most notably recognized as the home of James "Whitey" Bulger, the organized crime boss captured in 2011 after 16 years on the run, and sentenced in 2013 to life in prison for 11 murders. But while Bulger might have been ruling the town with an iron fist, as depicted by Johnny Depp, in "Black Mass," what...
17) Lethal
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Honor Gillette discovers Lee Coburn, the man responsible for killing seven men the night before, lying in her front yard and is forced to comply with the armed stranger, who tells Honor that she and her daughter, Emily, are in danger due to something of great value that her late husband, a police officer, has hidden.
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When Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni arrives back in town, this time as co-producer on a Hollywood movie set, Lt. Dave Robicheaux is convinced the mobster is linked to a series of brutal murders of young prostitutes and embarks on an investigation peppered with mob money, violence, and ghostly encounters in the Louisiana swamps.
19) American dirt
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"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time...
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Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, a central character in Nicholas Pileggi's Casino and one of Chicago's most notorious mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up together on Chicago's Near West Side, and as young toughs they were rousted and shaken down by Hanhardt. While Spilotro became one of the youngest...
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