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262) The godfather
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Revenge, envy, and parent-child conflict mix with the rituals of Italian mob life in America. Includes fully restored film and the original and provocative Director's commentary.
265) The defence
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren't that different. It's been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie's back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter, Amy. Eddie only has forty-eight hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial - and...
267) The Sinatra Club
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America--too dangerous and too deadly to fail. Until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional Crime Family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi. Born in Brooklyn, Polisi was raised on a family legacy as a member of the Colombos, one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families, and came of age when the Mafia was at the height of its vast wealth and power. He ran an after-hours...
268) Storm's Justice
Author
Series
Amelia Storm volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking justice into your own hands can be deadly ... After receiving a mysterious note from the man claiming to be her brother's confidential informant, Special Agent Amelia Storm decides to trust fellow agent Zane Palmer with the truth. But as Amelia tells Zane about her murdered brother's activities and her own ties to the mafia world, they're called into work. A federal judge, along with her husband and daughter, have been murdered execution-style....
Author
Series
Dog lover's mysteries (Susan Conant) volume 15
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm. ;
Language
English
270) Gangster Land
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a backdrop of the roaring 1920s, the Italian and Irish mobs bloody the streets of Chicago during the infamous gangland wars. Al Capone, and his Machine Gunner Jack McGurn, take on Bugs Moran and the Irish mob in a battle that culminates with the Valentine's Day Massacre.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : black and white photographs ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, zkompromaty sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
viii, 293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Keeping friends close and enemies closer turned out well for the U.S. Navy during FDR's reign. This novel, based on fact, explains the significant role Lansky, Lucky Luciano, and other mobsters played in ridding New York harbor of spies and preparing the soil for the invasion of Sicily
Author
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
xix, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the double life of a former police officer and mobster whose activities reveal the involvement of Chicago gangsters with the casinos of Las Vegas and the CIA.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleone, who set her brother Sonny--played by James Caan--up for a hit. Russo didn't have to act--he knew the mob inside and out: from his childhood in Little Italy, where Mafia legend Frank Costello took him under his wing, to acting as a messenger for...
277) Smokin' Aces
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 49 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent hunts for Las Vegas stand up comedian and illusionist Buddy 'Aces' Israel. Aces has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins. Now Aces will have to pull his greatest disappearing act before the assassins can get to him.
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