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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sterling Brooks, who lived a life not quite good enough to get him into Heaven, is given a chance to redeem himself by reuniting seven-year-old Marissa with her beloved father and grandmother, who have been forced to join the Witness Protection Program after they agreed to testify against two gangsters.
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"He was the fiercest member of the yakuza, a man who left countless underworld legends in his wake. They called him "the Immortal Dragon." But one day he walked away from it all to walk another path--the path of the househusband! The curtain rises on this cozy yakuza comedy!
Author
Language
English
Description
Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the "untouchable" Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone's remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York. Tutored by the likes of infamous mobsters Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, young Capone's disquieting demeanor, combined with the "technical advice" he learned from these insidious pedagogues, contributed...
9) Marked man
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night where your life changes irrevocably, for better or for worse, but who the hell cares, so long as it changes.
It must have been a night just like that, yeah, if only I could remember it.
All Victor Carl...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The legendary yakuza 'the Immortal Dragon' has washed his hands of the gangster life for something far more dangerous--becoming a househusband! Cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking... These days he's doing everything he can to succeed as man of the house, if it doesn't kill him first! The cozy yakuza comedy continues!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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! Tatsu is tasked with squeezing the locals for money owed to the association--the neighborhood association, that is. But when the former gangster tries to collect, what should be a quick and easy job ends up anything but! All your faves are back in action...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of Iwo Jima and of his brutal father, to fight a war against the city's gangsters, led by an Englishman named Owney Maddox, who has a taste for brothels and casinos.
14) Gangster
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Angelo Vestieri runs from his past and his father, and seeks out a second family--a family of criminals who preside over early-twentieth-century New York. His rise from soldier to boss leads him into betrayals, and to an abandoned boy who needs a parent as well as protection.
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Beverly Hills playboy Wheeler Cassidy and beautiful African-American detective Tanisha Williams embark on the adventure of their lives when they team up to investigate the death of Wheeler's brother, the only member of the family he ever really loved.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tatsu faces off against his toughest opponent yet--a cunning little girl who refuses to eat her vegetables! It's going to take more than some quick sleight of hand to get one over on this smart cookie. Does the Immortal Dragon have what it takes to deliver the goods?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than fifty murders. Currently serving thirteen life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. By pure happenstance, Casso had lived next door to the family of young Philip Carlo, who...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"All of Tatsu's hustling and networking since leaving the yakuza has earned him an offer he can't refuse--an invitation to run with the women's association, the movers and shakers of his neighborhood. But before he can be initiated, the Immortal Dragon must prove to the board's heavyweights that he truly can hack it as a homemaker. It will be the greatest test of his househusband's skills yet!"--Back cover.
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