Mafia

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show.The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight f...

The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executionerturnedinformant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York?s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted execu...

Here is the inside story about the rise and fall of Philadelphia's notorious Scarfo organization. It is a firsthand account of murder, money, and corruption told by wiseguyturnedwitness Nick Caramandi, whose testimony put Nicky Scarfo and many of his associates behind bars for the rest of their lives....

Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner sanctum of this secret society where few have dared to tread.In this gripping history of the Sicilian mafia, John Dickie uses startling new research t...

warning: this book contains situations which might be triggers for some people. Please see the bottom of this description to see if this is the kind of book that you'll love or piss you offFor Luisa Chavez, a twentythree year old former beauty queen, a better life has always been just out of her reach. Sure, she?s had men at her feet since she...

I?m king of the criminal underworld.I always get what I want.And she?s my obsession.Cora is new to the city of sin.Her innocent blue eyes beg for me to claim her.But I?m not the billionaire she thinks I am.There?s a darkness within me.And Cora is a shining light.She?s beautiful. A virgin.I?m ruthless. A beast.She found me for a reason.She?ll be my ...

I WARNED YOU. I told you not to set foot in my casino again. I told you to stay away. Because if I see those hips swinging around my suite, I?ll pin you against the wall and take you hard. And once I make you mine, I?m not gonna set you free. I?m king of the Vegas underground and I take what I want.So run. Stay the hell away from my casino. Or I?ll...

Where do I beginOh. Yeah.Once upon a time.Isn?t that how all good fairy tales start And Maximo and I, we were definitely a fairy tale.Not the cleanedup, sanitized ones where life?s problems were solved with a smile and a song. We were the oldschool kind. The twisted tales packed with murder, violence, and tragic beginnings.Okay, so maybe we wer...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA New York Public Library Best Book of the YearFrom the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily.South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture thatwith its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and arche...

Following up on the success of the Adrenaline title Mob: Stories of Death and Betrayal from Organized Crime, Adrenaline Classics brings back the New York Times bestseller (originally published as Killer) that helped pave the way for the latest generation of nouveaumob stories, from Donnie Brasco to The Sopranos. "Joey" a journeyman Jewish hitma...

The mysteries of her past consume her. Seventeenyearold Kate has never stopped searching for the secrets of her past?the secrets that began with her missing birth parents. After years of every lead drying up and every hope turning false, Kate finally lucks onto a promising lead. Determined to find the truth once and for all, Kate travels to the g...

A dark romance about the lies that lead us down? I?ll do anything to get safe, even if that means working at the scariest club in town.I?ll do anything to stay hidden, even if it means taking off my clothes for strangers.I?ll do anything to be free. Except give him up. When he looks at me, I forget why I can?t have him. He?s beautiful and scarred. ...

During the early twentieth century, Sicilian and Southern Italian immigrants poured into New York City.Looking to escape poverty and persecution at home, they soon discovered that certain criminal enterprises followed them to America. Before any codes of honor were established in the New World, violent bosses wreaked havoc on their communities in t...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, RomanceFiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, RomanceFiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

In 1984, after becoming part of an antimafia group seeking to prosecute the Sicilian mafia, the Cosa Nostra, durante toda su carrera....

From USA Today bestselling author Meghan March comes the final sexy standalone set in the Beneath world of New Orleans.I used to believe there were lines in life you don't cross. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal.Until I learned people don't always practice what they preach.I turned in my badge and gun and walked away from everything.Then I got t...

I was raised on the streets, so I know things are rarely as simple as they appear?especially this rich girl showing up at my pawnshop demanding a job. She?s the most tempting thing I?ve ever seen, and I?ll be damned if I can make her leave. Shit just got complicated ? but when it comes to her?I want complicated. We?re both fighting our own demons, ...

From author Meghan March comes a sexy new standalone in the Beneath series. Are you ready to fall in love with the villain I?m the guy you love to hate. In every story in my life, I seem to end up playing the villain?and I?ve got the scars to prove it.That role works fine for me, because I?m sure as hell not anyone?s hero. I run my life and my emp...

An Enemies to Lovers Mafia Romance...My name is Nicolai Valsetti, but people call me Black Heart.My father has been murdered, making me the next king of New Jersey. I was taught to live by three mottos: pride, power, and protection. But now, with my father dead, and my brother kidnapped, all I feel is pain. All I want is possession. And I will get ...

Carnal (adjective):1) Relating to the pleasures of the body2) Given to sensual indulgence3) The man who kidnapped meThe devil has blue eyes, an Irish accent, and a hatred for me that runs deep.He blames me for starting a war. Consorting with his enemies. Getting his men killed. Though I?m innocent on all charges, he wants his pound of flesh. With a...

Mira Ellison is poised to have it all. In 1989, she is the first prominent African American fashion designer redefining change for both beauty and style among the renowned in Italy. That happens until the evening she meets a tall, mysteriously charming Sicilian businessman who orchestrates a friendship that awakens a wicked sexual heat she has long...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan cuts straight to the heart of a man who stalks the shadows in an intoxicating Leopard novel.Though born into a leopard?s lair in the bayou, Joshua Tregre?s fighting skills were honed in the rainforests of Borneo. Sleek and deadly, he?s the perfect man to take over a crime syndicate back home in ...

Alpha (noun): 1) Having the highest rank in a dominance hierarchy 2) The most powerful man in a group 3) Liam Black He was a stranger to me, a dark and dangerous presence who materialized from the shadows one rainy night to save me from a vicious attack. I didn?t know his name or where he was from. All I knew was that the only place I?d ever felt s...

I?ve always known she was too good for me, but that never stopped me from wanting her. And then I finally had her for one night. A night I don?t remember. I figured I?d blown my shot. But now she?s walked back into my life, and this time, I have the upper hand. I want my second chance. Will she be able to see the man beneath this ink...

I owe him a debt. A big one. The payment can't be settled with money or favors. He only wants one thing. Me. Every action gets a reward. A button. Once I fill his jar with three hundred and sixtyfive buttons, he'll let me go. He'll let me walk away. But I have to earn every single one. By submitting to the darkest, cruelest, and most beautiful man...

When Candice Curry was a little girl, she put her hand in her father's back pocket so that she wouldn't get lost in large crowds. Little did she know that as she followed him, he was plying his trade: conning people. Her family drove stolen cars, lived in stolen houses, and shopped with stolen credit cards. Drug use was regular, as were visits from...

An alternate cover edition can be found here.Dante Marcello?s life has been a carefully planned event as an heir to a Cosa Nostra throne. For as long as he can remember, he?s had one goal in mind, and that?s becoming the Don. With his father ready to step down, it?s Dante?s turn to step up. But without a wife at his side, his seat as the boss is on...

Homeless. Hungry. Desperate.Doe has no memories of who she is or where she comes from.A notorious career criminal just released from prison, King is someone you don?t want to cross unless you?re prepared to pay him back in blood, sweat, pu$$y or a combination of all three.King?s future hangs in the balance. Doe?s is written in her past. When they c...

Em A REPÚBLICA DA MÁFIA, John Dickie contanos a história de como a Cosa Nostra, a Camorra e a Ndrangheta sobreviveram na época republicana, multiplicandose e espalhandose, para criar assim novas máfias e promover a sua expansão em zonas do território nacional que até então pareciam imunes. Ao longo dos tempos, estas irmandades de sangue têm vind...

I wasn't capable of love. Not until I met Cora. My angel. I?ve claimed every inch of her body and I only want more. I?m a man who craves control, but her power over me is absolute. She holds my heart in her hands. She can never find out. The demons in this city want to destroy her. It?s my job to protect her innocence. Lock her safe in my high towe...

He loves me, and he doesn?t even know my real name. The limelight that follows him could expose everything I?m hiding. But even knowing the risks, I can?t force myself to stay away. I?m going to break his heart, but mine will shatter right along with it. Will we lose it all when I reveal what?s beneath this mask...

An Irish mobster. A missing friend. Two loyalties, ripping me apart. I had a plan. Get in, get my information, and get out. Easy, rightTurns out, infiltrating the Irish mafia isn?t exactly what I thought it would be. I just wanted a soldier. Someone I could flirt with to get me in the door. That?s when Lachlan Crow noticed me. Problem was, he wasn...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Fiction, Teen, Young, Adult lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A 10thanniversary edition of the New York Times bestselling history of the Mafia's infamous Five Families, featuring a new preface by the author.For half a century, the American Mafia outwitted, outmaneuvered, and outgunned the FBI and other police agencies, wreaking unparalleled damage on America?s social fabric and business enterprises while eme...

Once upon a time the daughter of a mafia king fell in love with a foot soldier.This fairy tale didn't have a happy ending.My sister and I barely managed to escape alive, and we've lived in relative hiding ever since. I'm safe now, but I can never forget the boy who gave his life to save mine.Except there's a chance that he's still alive. And he's f...

Ignazio Vitale is not a good man.I suspect it, the first time I see him, sense the air of danger that surrounds the man. He has a way of commanding attention, of taking control, of knowing what I'm thinking before I even do.It's alarming and alluring. It's dark and deadly. It's everything I've ever wanted but the last thing I truly need. Obsession....

Born into one of the leading Mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi struggles to find her own path in a world where no choices are given. Aria was only fifteen when her parents betrothed her to Luca ? The Vice ? Vitiello, the oldest son of the head of the New York Cosa Nostra to ensure peace between the two families. Now with eighteen, the day Aria ...

The true story behind the Martin Scorsese film: A ?riveting . . . account of how organized crime looted the casinos they controlled? (Kirkus Reviews). Focusing on Chicago bookie Frank ?Lefty? Rosenthal and his partner, Anthony Spilotro, and drawing on extensive, indepth interviews, the #1 New York Times?bestselling author of the Mafia classic Wise...

GabrielaStefan Sabbioni showed up uninvited in my bedroom on my sixteenth birthday. He stood in the shadows smelling of whiskey and death and wrapped a broken, bloodcrusted necklace around my neck. I thought he'd strangle me with it.That night, he left a message for my father. He said he'd be back to take something precious.I never delivered that ...

Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, "connected guys," captains, and godfathers. Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys?...

A compelling, tighly plotted courtroom drama. Two attorneys on opposite sides of an intriguing extortion case court a minister's daughter. When the minister and his friend, a catholic priest, are arrested for racketeering, romance gets in the way of litigation, and the case captures the imagination of the entire country....

It opens as mob boss Humphrey DiEbola has tracked femme fatale Helen Sedlacek to Montana, where she fled after killing Humphrey's predecessor and running off with millions in Mafia cash. Unexpectedly, rather than take vengeance, he offers her redemption. Humphrey has also set about drastically downsizing old hands, even turning over his illegal cig...

MONEY, MURDER, AND MACHIAVELLIAN MAYHEM ... CONTAINS A NEW EPILOGUEMafia Prince is the first person account of one of the most brutal eras in Mafia history??Little Nicky? Scarfo?s reign as boss of the Philadelphia family in the 1980s?written by Scarfo?s underboss and nephew, ?Crazy Phil? Leonetti.The youngestever underboss at the age of 33, Leonet...

An allnew, spicy murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer...It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod?just me and my beloved brother?but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived...

Nero is the king of Legacy Prep, living a life of power.Elle is the school?s punching bag, living a life of fear.The only good girls Nero knows jump in his bed when he tells them to.The closest Elle has come to a bad boy like him is in the cafeteria line.The mob boss gave him orders to find out what she knows.Her mouth is sealed. I just want to be ...