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Author
Series
Nick Mason novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Accepting a dubious offer to gain release from prison 20 years early and enjoy a life of luxury in exchange for following a criminal mastermind's orders without question, Nick Mason is forced to commit increasingly dangerous crimes while desperately fighting to go straight, reclaim his family and elude a relentless detective.
6) The drop
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Lonely bartender Bob Saginowski and his hardened employer cousin Marv run a bar that is used as a 'drop'--a covert scheme that funnels cash to local gangsters. But when they find themselves caught in a robbery gone bad, and on the hook for a debt they can't repay, both men have to make the dangerous choice between loyalty and survival.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso--from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of...
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old football stars Troy White and Ty Lewis are eager to face each other in a seven-on-seven tournament being held at the Super Bowl in Miami, unaware that bad choices made by members of their families will put both boys in danger.
Author
Series
Carter Ross mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Investigating an outbreak of a bizarre and occasionally fatal disease in a Newark neighborhood, investigative reporter Carter Ross contracts the illness himself before discovering mob ties to a local construction project.
10) Murder book
Author
Language
English
Description
An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Harry Duncan is called into investigate a sudden crime wave in several small midwestern towns, pitting him against a violent syndicate as he compiles a “murder book” to build his case, making him a target.
11) The redeemers
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Voted out of office through the machinations of kingpin Johnny Stagg, former sheriff Quinn Colson resolves to bring down Stagg's operation, only to become embroiled in a murder investigation involving his replacement and a former flame.
Author
Series
Once upon a crime family volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Penny Landlow, seventeen, the overprotected daughter of a powerful crime family, has rarely left the family estate due to a blood disorder but when tragedy strikes and she is left alone in New York City, she must prove she is not as fragile as everyone believes.
13) How to disappear
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A tale told in alternating voices traces the experiences and growing attraction between an adventurous girl who goes into hiding in the wake of a brutal murder and the straight A, star athlete who is recruited by his assassin father to take her out.
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