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41) Diamond dogs
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A group of American fortune hunters hire an ex-military man to help guide and protect them on their journey, to find a priceless artifact worth over 50 million dollars.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites. Contemporary societies are clearly fascinated by them. Why...
43) Omertà
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras toda una vida consagrada al mundo del crimen, Don Raymonde Aprile decide ceder el testigo al joven Astorre, su mano derecha. De esta manera, pretende preservar la intachable trayectoria de sus hijos, que han vivido al margen de la Mafia, y dedicarse a supervisar los bancos internacionales que posee. Sin embargo, el agente Cilke, del FBI, verá con recelo la jubilación de Don Aprile. Cilke está consiguiendo que algunos miembros de la organización...
44) Pals
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Art, two retired fishing pals, find over $3 million in cash, they're hunted by a hitman, Jack's mother is kidnapped, and both are in big trouble with federal agents.
45) Gun shy
Publisher
Hollywood, Pictures Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Charlie has lost his nerve. It couldn't have happened at a worse time because Charlie's involved in a sting operation against a Mafia leader. Will his highly unusual support group be able to help him out or will it prove to be his undoing?
46) Three wise guys
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
To keep his accountant from ratting him out to the feds on Christmas Eve, Murray hires three hit men to shut him up and find out where his partner Jake Marley is hiding out. The three wise guys meet Mary and struggle to complete their task.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Joshua, a hard-nosed collector for a ruthless mob boss, lives in a world filled with brutal violence and beautiful women. But when he finds himself in the middle of a power struggle with the most dominant drug lord in the business, Joshua knows that one false move could cause everything to come crashing down. Life becomes the ultimate battle when revenge is all there is to live for.
48) Brothers Three
Publisher
Umgd - Vivendi Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Three brothers murder a connected man for raping their sister. The brothers fight to free themselves from the debt from the New York Mafia.
Author
Series
Tupper Jones mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Amber Cove Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Collins is in the thick of things again when a friend from the past shows up looking for help. Christian Parsons is in deep with the new head of the Chicago mob, and he wants out. From bank robberies to murder, to a shady import-export business, Caroline must prove her friend's innocence before the FBI and US Marshals take out Christian for crimes he didn't commit. City Before Sunrise is hot on the heels of the events in Score of Silence....
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.
Author
Series
New Scotland Yard mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When their relationship is revealed, Chief Inspector Michael Sinclair and detective Kathleen Doyle must deal with office politics while trying to solve a series of murders linked to both the Russian mafia and an Irish terrorist group.
53) Live by night
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream. By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The series follows New York mafia capo Dwight "The General" Manfredi (Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone), just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a "crew" from a group of unlikely characters, to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might...
55) Spirit and dust
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Mob boss Donald Maguire kidnaps Daisy Goodnight to help him find his missing daughter.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Robert B. Parker's beloved PI Sunny Randall returns on a case that blurs the line between friend and foe...and if Sunny can't tell the difference, the consequences may be deadly. When Sunny's long-time gangster associate Tony Marcus comes to her for help, Sunny is surprised - after all, she double crossed him on a recent deal, and their relationship is on shakier ground than ever. But the way Tony figures it, Sunny owes him, and Sunny's willing to...
58) Hostage
Author
Language
English
Description
Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley takes a job as chief of police in a small town far from the city, but his peaceful life is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage.
59) City of dreams
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After fleeing to California to start a new life, Danny Ryan must decide whether he is going to do the FBI a favor that may make him a fortune or kill him.
Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob underboss, has left the East Coast and settled in California with his young son in tow. The move has been good for Danny; in his new base of operations, his power, influence, and wealth have grown. Now he's heading up to Hollywood to rein in two of his crew,...
60) Son de almendra
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
Español
Description
A novel by the Cuban American author. Set in Havana in the 50's a story centered on the Mafia war for control of casinos.