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Author
Series
Detective Daley novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into England and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and subsequent conviction. But now, five years later, he is apparently back from the grave, set on avenging himself on those who brought him down. At the top of his list is his previous associate, Frank MacDougall, who,...
22) The palace
Author
Series
Simon Riske novels volume 3
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm.
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
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The carefully orchestrated life of Manhattan emergency room doctor and witness-protection program participant Peter Brown unravels in the course of a high-stakes day that begins with a mugging, an elevator encounter with a sexy pharmaceutical rep, and a new patient who knows him from his previous existence.
24) Insane city
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Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
25) Revenge
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Murder. Former SAS soldier David Shelley was part of the most covert operations team in the special forces, along with the woman he went on to marry. Now settling down to civilian life in London, they have plans to set up a private security company and enjoy a safer and more stable existence. But the shocking death of a young woman Shelley once helped protect puts those plans on hold. Betrayal. The police rule the death a suicide but the grieving...
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"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to...
27) Triple 9
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plot to murder a police officer in order to pull off a heist.
28) Ace of shades
Author
Series
Shadow game trilogy volume 1
Formats
Description
When Enne leaves finishing school early to pursue her missing mother she finds Levi Glaisyer who is not a proper gentleman but a street lord who catches them both in a dangerous gamble that could mean their lives.
Author
Series
Sophie Brinkman trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Formats
Description
[When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, her life is perfectly uneventful. She's a nurse and a single mother, living with her son in a sleepy Stockholm suburb. She likes Guzman's quiet charm and easy smile; she likes the way he welcomes her into his family. She quickly learns, though, that his smooth fa©ʹade masks something much more sinister, he's the head of an international crime ring that is at war with a rival organization. Before she...
30) Rob the mob
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After getting out of prison, a couple that is in need of money commits a series of robberies of mob social clubs in order to make money.
31) Lawless
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic outlaw tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel The Wettest County in the World, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xv, 446 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Burgis, an investigative journalist, draws on insider interviews to expose the role of international corruption and organized crime on the political arenas of today's world. He exposes how this global kleptocracy is corrupting the world around us. In weaving together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption, Burgis follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. The...
33) The big heat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm
Description
At fifty-nine, facing a dull and lonely future, Phillip Vail yearns for a way to put vigor and purpose into his remaining years. Then he finds the Mafia. While riding a commuter train, enjoying a chat with a younger woman sitting next to him, he encounters three violent drunks. Phil is powerless and terrified but the woman is neither; her father is the caporegime of New York's Sforza crime family and a quick call brings her three mobster brothers...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary hit man John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.
36) Ballistic
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"After he was betrayed by his compatriots and then forced to take on a near-suicidal covert mission by the CIA, master assassin Court Gentry thought he could find refuge off the grid, living in self-imposed isolation in the Amazonian rain forest. But even there, his bloody past finds him when a vengeful Russian crime lord forces him to go on the run once again. Without a country or a home to call his own, Court's options are narrow enough, but when...
37) American dirt
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. 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 favorite books in her store. And then...
38) Triple threat
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
A breakneck thriller that teams over half a dozen of the world's biggest action stars for the martial arts film event of the year. When a hit contract is taken out on a billionaire's daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate, a team of wanted mercenaries must take on a group of professional assassins to stop them from hitting their target.
39) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
40) Prizzi's honor
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.
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