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1) Gangland
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses. When the Christmas gift Accardo got for his wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracking down and returning all of the items-by whatever means...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Ride along with Carl Weber and C. N. Phillips for this fresh, enthralling spin-off to the Family Business series as the heir to a crime family finds himself targeted by an enemy and he'll need more than his family by blood to save him... Family business novel series, 288pp., 20K
3) The palace
Author
Series
Simon Riske novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a man to whom he owes his life reaches out from prison, international spy Simon Riske recruits a daring investigative reporter and a rogue Mossad agent to thwart an international conspiracy targeting major European cities.
Author
Series
Wolf volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Tensions rise and now I have two enemies that want me dead. But I've never felt safer. My wolf protects me. He cherishes me. And I think he loves me. This arranged marriage was detested by us both, but now I look at him with new eyes. My husband is strong, smart, and gorgeous. His coffee-colored eyes make me melt. My heart slowly starts to soften for this man and I fall deeper and deeper. I fall in love with my husband"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven years to the day after eloping with Abby in Vegas, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas's oldest crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is in danger"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Wolf volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"My gravest mistake was falling in love with my husband. It crept up on me so slowly that I didn't even notice it was happening until it arrived. I assumed he felt the same way every time he kissed me ... every time he touched me. Until he proved me wrong. Kamikaze is dead, so I don't need him for protection anymore. Divorce is all I want now. I'll find a man that will love me the way I deserve, that won't bring home two strange women just to hurt...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1881 and eighteen-year-old Irishman George Graham steals a bag of potatoes to feed his starving family. This simple act of desperation sets him on an epic journey to lands he never knew existed. George endures the sweltering jungles of Indochina, faces blood thirsty pirates in the South Atlantic, fights a war in Cuba, and finally makes it to the land of milk and honey, America. After he lands on the gritty streets of Kensington, the Irish section...
8) The Russian
Author
Series
Rob Tacoma novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As the brutal Russian mafia becomes the most powerful and deadly criminal enterprise in the U.S., it's up to covert operative Rob Tacoma to fight back, in a new series by New York Times bestseller Ben Coes.
Author
Series
Wolf volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Till death do us part. My father married me off to one of the most powerful men in Italy. Maverick DeVille. But I call him the wolf. He calls me his sheep. The arranged marriage was detested by us both, but we had to make sacrifices for the right reasons. He needed to avenge his mother and I needed protection from the mobs that want to torture me. He's not what I pictured for my husband. He's ruthless, calloused, and cold. His walls are higher than...
10) Bound by honor
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Born into one of the leading mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi is a Mafia princess known for her beauty. What many consider a gift means her doom when she's forced to marry Luca Vitiello to bring peace between two Mafia dynasties. Luca is the future capo of the New York Famiglia, a man known for his brutality--and for crushing his cousin's throat with his bare hands. Aria is terrified of marrying a monster like him. He may be one of the most...
11) The wild life
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"New York's criminal underworld has been shaken by the disappearance of its most successful and desirable call girls, vanishing one by one from the brothels where they're employed. As a pattern emerges, what might otherwise appear to be a choice to pursue a new life comes to resemble something more troublesome--the work of a serial kidnapper--and when a woman turns up dead, the hunt for the predator behind it all becomes even more urgent. To find...
Author
Series
City trilogy (Don Winslow) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Never cut the drugs--leave them pure. Guns are meant to be shot--keep them loaded. Family is everything--betray them and die. Harley McKenna is the only child of North County's biggest criminal. Duke McKenna's run more guns, cooked more meth, and killed more men than anyone around. Harley's been working for him since she was sixteen--collecting debts, sweet-talking her way out of trouble, and dreading the day he'd deem her ready to rule the rural...
Author
Series
Nora Watts novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From Strand Critics Award winner Sheena Kamal, comes the third novel featuring the brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts whose vendetta against a triad enforcer escalates when he places a target on her daughter's back.
Author
Series
Cartel novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organization runs deep, but when someone breaks the rules, things may be beyond repair. A snitch in the crew has dismantled the notorious Cartel, and now disloyalty threatens to tear the family apart. Young Carter is in the fight for his life as he faces drug kingpin charges due to the treachery of his best friend Ace"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Aunties (Jesse Q Sutanto) volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Meddy Chan has been to countless weddings, but she never imagined how her own would turn out. Now the day has arrived, and she can't wait to marry her college sweetheart Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, Meddy wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs ... The wedding photographer Staphanie ... reminds Meddy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A federal prosecutor, Nora Carleton, enters into a high-stakes investigation involving conspiracy, corruption, and danger when a mobster she is trying to convict offers information about an assassination in the first crime novel from the former director of the FBI.
19) Revenge
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former SAS soldier David Shelley was part of the most covert operations team in the special forces. Now settling down to civilian life in London, he has plans for a safer and more stable existence. But the shocking death of a young woman Shelley once helped protect puts those plans on hold. The police rule the death a suicide but the grieving parents can't accept their beloved Emma would take her own life. They need to find out what really happened,...
Author
Series
City trilogy (Don Winslow) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
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.
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