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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
4) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old daughter: Eddie has to take this case whether he likes it or...
5) The scrapper
Author
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Dublin boxer Sparrow McCabe has the Spanish contender on the floor. The World Featherweight title is his for the taking. But something stops Sparrow from throwing that final punch and suddenly it's all over. Fifteen years later Sparrow is working as a driver for the gangster Simon Williams, trying to turn a blind eye to the scams, the extortion rackets and the rough justice handed out by Williams and his heavies. Then murder enters the picture and...
Author
Series
City trilogy (Darren Shan) volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finding himself in a mysterious world called the City, with no memory of his life before his arrival, Capac Raimi must contend with a snake-tattooed assassin, blind Incan priests, friends who suddenly disappear, and The Cardinal, the man who rules it all.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.
In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies.
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles...
In this exquisitely told novel, John le Carré shows us once again his acute understanding of the world we live in and where power really lies.
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles...
8) Tear it down
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues. Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter needs to be on the move, so she sends him to Memphis to help her friend Wanda Wyatt, a photographer and war correspondent who's been receiving peculiar threats. When Peter...
Author
Series
Gentleman bastard novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Spectra
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
Physical Desc
499 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In October of 1967, the Summer of Love is history, rock and roll is dark and revolutionary, and people in the small east Texas community of Center Springs simply want to live their lives as quietly as possible. But a handsome darkness in the form of Las Vegas gangster Anthony Agrioli has left the business to hide out in their tiny backwater settlement with his blond bombshell girlfriend. Two years earlier, Agrioli met newlyweds Cody and Norma Faye...
Author
Series
Earl Swagger novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Plagued by the memory of his abusive father, apprehensive about his own impending parenthood, Earl Swagger is a decorated ex-Marine of absolute integrity, and overwhelming melancholy. Now he's about to face his biggest, bloodiest challenge yet. It is the summer of 1946, organized crime's garish golden age, when American justice seems to have gone to seed for good. When the district attorney vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the...
13) Winterland
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Refusing to believe in the accidental death of a beloved family member who coincidentally died on the same night as a gang member with the same name, a grief-stricken Gina Rafferty ignores edicts to stop asking questions and begins pushing powerful people for the truth.
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing...
15) Hot shot
Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Loyalty is a way of life for the Sisterhood and their significant others. When lawyer Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is left critically injured after being shot by an unknown assailant, the men of BOLO Consultants head straight for Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie-and to uncover a dangerous enemy in the City of Sin. As head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies. Yet the shooting seems to be related to one of his private projects....
17) No mortal thing
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Two young men - Jago and Marcantonio - both studying business and finance. Jago is a kid from a rough part of London who has worked hard to get a job in a bank and is now on a fast-track to the Berlin office. Marcantonio is one of the new generation in the 'Ndrangheta crime families from Calabria, Southern Italy. He is in Germany to learn how to channel their illicit millions towards legitimate businesses all over Europe. When Jago witnesses Marcantonio...
Author
Series
Rat pack mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Rat Pack returns to Las Vegas for the premier of "Ocean's 11," Eddie G. lends his assistance to Frank Sinatra when he is asked to locate a girl with whom Frank had been supposed to meet, a quest that traps Eddie between the cops and gangsters.
20) Black duck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
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