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Brought up in the East End of London, son of a policeman, John was already dabbling in crime by his early teens, ending up in a young offenders institute and then a borstal. He'd left home at 15 and the only occupation he knew was theft. He landed a job doing security at concerts for stars such as Simply Red, Queen and Bruce Springsteen and was lured deeper into the world of drugs and crime. By his 20s he was well-acquainted with the capital's criminal...
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A week of "mayhem-as-usual" at Hillside Manor kicks off with the arrival of a mysterious "Mr. Smith" and his floozie "Mrs." from New York City—and it accelerates into chaos when Mr. Smith himself kicks off, a victim of the foulest of plays. Hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn is shocked to learn that her now-defunct roomer was actually "Legs" Benedict—hit man for the notorious Ronzini Family—and that virtually every other guests at her B&B had good...
63) The gangster
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"It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special 'Black Hand Squad,' but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and...
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Crown
Pub. Date
c2009
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xiii, 328 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm.
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The first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the Hells Angels, Dobyns finally tells the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity, and his life.
65) The Irishman
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Criterion collection volume 1058
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 DVD (209 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century.
66) Adverse
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A rideshare driver discovers that his sister is in debt to a dangerous crime syndicate.
67) Savages
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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c2012
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1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry, raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town, until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.
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Ballantine Books
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2014.
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301 pages ; 25 cm.
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"When the world's most powerful mob boss loses his wife and daughters in a terrorist attack funded by one of his rivals, he resolves to turn the tables. Rallying the heads of the globe's top criminal organizations, Vincent Marelli launches a war that may be his last. With the weight of the criminal world on his shoulders, he has only one desire in his heart: to know who ordered the hit that took out his girls"--
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Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2015]
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x, 351 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Tale of espionage and international intrigue set in Shanghai in 1931--an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femmes fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies.
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
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2015.
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316, 10, 14 pages ; 21 cm
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"A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step in an all-out war between crime syndicates the likes...
71) The informant
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Butcher's boy volume 3
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
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325 p. ; 24 cm.
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Years after the Butcher's Boy wipes out several mobsters and disappears, Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is approached by the mythical hit man, who asks her for crucial information in exchange for helping her to crack an unsolved murder case.
72) Mikey and Nicky
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Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
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1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nicky has embezzled a fortune from his Mafia bosses and is on the run. His only friend, Mikey, tries to help him escape - or will he lead him into a trap?
73) Public enemy
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in Prohibition-era urban America" -- Wikipedia.
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Little, Brown
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2015.
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xi, 382 pages ; 22 cm
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"It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a police informant. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A hit man who has finally had enough of killing. Calum plans an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him the most. Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are gearing up for a final, fatal confrontation. The panic over Calum's abrupt disappearance may finally give Detective Michael Fisher the chance he need...
75) The Yakuza
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Warner Bros. Turner
Pub. Date
c2014
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1 DVD (112 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
76) Lie by moonlight
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
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385 p. ; 24 cm.
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Hired to teach four orphaned girls at remote, ramshackle Aldwick Castle, Miss Concordia Glade is pleased to find her pupils both eager and bright. Provided for by an unseen benefactor, they are surrounded at all times by hard-eyed guards in the guise of gardeners. During an investigation into a woman's death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the castle grounds -- and in the middle of chaos. The building is in flames. People are...
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the mob. When a high-stakes, mob-protected card game is heisted by some small-time crooks, Cogan is called in to track them down and restore order to the local criminal economy.
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The Penguin Press
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2013.
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xv, 284 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Since 2006, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado continues to report on government corruption, murders in Juarez, and the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. In 2007, Corchado received a tip that he could be their next target. Rather than leave his country, Corchado went out into the Mexican countryside to...
79) Omertá
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2019.
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346 pages
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"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."--Amazon.com.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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xii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins. The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real...
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