Download or read book Gangland s Decree written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexton Blake fights New York's gangs on their own ground in his great campaign to rescue Mademoiselle Roxane. A nerve-tingling tale of drama and thrill-COMPLETE. Gangland decreed that Mademoiselle Roxane should die. Sexton Blake decided otherwise. He has got her out of some tight corners before this, but never out of anything so difficult as an unknown hiding-place, or so desperate as the clutches of Cluck Snyder.

Download or read book Gangland written by Chuck Hogan and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire. In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses. When the Christmas gift Accardo got for his wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracking down and returning all of the items—by whatever means necessary. Forced into an impossible situation, Nicky must find a way to carry out Accardo's increasingly unhinged instructions and survive the battle for control of Chicago. What Accardo doesn't know: Nicky has a secret which has made his life impossible and has put him in the pocket of the FBI. Based on the true story of Tony Accardo, the longest‑reigning mob capo in history, Gangland is a Shakespearean-esque drama of integrity, lost honor, and revenge. Gritty and action‑packed, it is the ultimate gangster tale and Chuck Hogan's most thrilling novel yet.

Download or read book The Silent Killer written by Trevor Wood and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'SUPER-SMART AND HIGHLY ORIGINAL' - Doug Johnstone 'BRILLIANT AND DEEPLY EVOCATIVE' - Graham Bartlett 'AN EXCITING START TO A NEW SERIES' - Patricia Gibney 'A WRITER AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME' - Robert Rutherford The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to keep it hidden from his peers and the criminals he's investigating. THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE'S NO ESCAPE. DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of a loved one's death more times than he can remember. With a serial killer stalking the Newcastle streets and one of his closest colleagues lying in the mortuary following a hit and run he thinks things are about as tough as they've ever been. But he should know that trouble always comes in threes. Jack is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, one that will end his career and destroy his family: Early Onset Dementia. As he does everything he can to hide his deteriorating condition from his family and colleagues, Jack believes that the serial killer is haunted by his childhood while his own memories are built on increasingly shifting sands. The race against time to save lives, including his own, has begun. Whilst staying within the realms of the police procedural genre, this cracking thriller will explore character in depth and with sensitivity, as well as with the author's trademark dark humour.

Download or read book In the Shadow of a Killer written by Robert Sandilands and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an ex-girlfriend’s life is threatened, ex-soldier Richard Barton steps to her defense. His chivalry comes at a cost, however, when he is caught and held captive by a shady club owner and mob boss. His escape makes the club owner look like a fool, and not willing to admit defeat, he goes after Barton with all he’s got. Barton refuses to become a fugitive from the mob. From his military days, he knows that offense is the best method of defense. He won’t go down without a fight. His actions attract the attention of an opposing mob. Like the dirty club owner, they are also involved in smuggling and drugs. If he wants to stop the shooter stalking his father, Barton will have to destroy the club operation and kill anyone who gets in his way.

Download or read book Gangland 1998 1 written by Brian Azzarello and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Clean House' (written by Brian Azzarello and painted by Tim Bradstreet), a mob informant's new life takes a deadly twist. In 'The Bear' (written and illustrated by Dave Gibbons), white snow runs red as old scores are settled in New Russia. In 'Your Special Day' (written by Doselle Young with art by Frank Quitely), a lonely hit man stages a suicidal hit at the wedding of a mob boss's daughter. And in 'Chains' (written and painted by Peter Kuper), a line of white powder links livesÑand fatesÑfrom the Golden Triangle to the Big Apple.

Download or read book Jerry Capeci s Gang Land written by Jerry Capeci and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, seasoned journalist Jerry Capeci was hired by the New York Daily News to cover the crime beat. His reporting on the Mafia proved so popular that he was given a weekly column, which was tagged "Jerry Capeci's Gangland." "Gangland" was an immediate hit with New Yorkers and continued for almost seven years. Capeci wrote on the everyday trials and tribulations of La Cosa Nostra, putting the mob under a microscope and laying bare the inner workings and day-to-day operations of both mob bosses and low-level street soldiers alike. He reported on such major mob events as John Gotti's murder conviction and Sammy "the Bull"Gravano's testimony that put Gotti behind bars.

Download or read book Good to Be God written by Tibor Fischer and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2008-09-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the credit card and identity of a handA-cuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law-enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a new money-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially, and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God.His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him taking over the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems his parishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying and coming back to life...

Download or read book Gangland 1998 2 written by John Pocsik and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Platinum Nights' (written by Lucius Shepard and illustrated by James Romberger), a gangbanger embarks on a wild and dangerous Big Apple spending spree. In 'Big Shot' (written by Jamie Delano and illustrated by Randy DuBurke), a captain of industry revisits his brutal rise to power and braces for his own lieutenant's power move. And in 'Killer Smile' (written by Simon Revelstroke and illustrated by Richard Corben), a mobster revisits his Hell's Kitchen stomping grounds for a fateful encounter with his childhood pal.

Download or read book No Room for the Innocent written by Dan Wheatcroft and published by Dan Wheatcroft. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last of the Leveller Trilogy, the MIT’s DCI Thurstan Baddeley reluctantly recognises the return of an old adversary but as if that wasn’t enough, there's a complication to their equation, an encrypted clue, a puzzle that leads to personal and professional dilemmas for them both.

Download or read book Hammered written by Elizabeth Bear and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was engineered for combat—in a world that is running out of time. “Very exciting . . . very impressive debut.”—Mike Resnick Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. Once she was somebody’s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control. “A gritty and painstakingly well-informed peek at a future we’d all better hope we don’t get . . . Elizabeth Bear builds her future nightmare tale with style and conviction and a constant return to the twists of the human heart.”—Richard Morgan

Download or read book Blood Innocents written by Thomas H. Cook and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thomas H. Cook’s Edgar Award–nominated first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopath Blood seeps into the gutters at the children’s zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other slashed across the neck. Normally it would be a case for the Parks Department, but these are no ordinary deer. The pride of the small menagerie, they were given to the zoo by a prominent socialite who cannot afford bloody headlines. The NYPD hands the case to Detective Reardon, star of the homicide squad. A recent widower at fifty-six, Reardon has seen too many human victims to care much about the two butchered animals. He resents being taken off other pressing cases for the sake of politics, but soon another killing snaps him to attention. Two women are found dead in their apartment, one stabbed fifty-seven times and the other with her throat cut. Surely this vicious parallel isn’t a coincidence.…

Download or read book Possession written by Linda Mooney and published by Linda Mooney. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were murdered by a stranger, wouldn’t you want the chance to be able to come back and find out who killed you? And why? J was born blind, but she could "see" things. Her gift has always helped the police find such things as missing persons, serial killers... a ghost or two. Detective Kiel Stark has worked homicide for eight years, but he has never met this mysterious Seer his fellow officers claim could almost perform miracles. Not until a gruesome triple homicide has his superiors calling in the reserved woman to help with the case. Now Stark is faced with a double threat. Not only is he finding himself dangerously attracted to the enigmatic beauty, but she could very well discover his own carefully guarded secret—a secret that could bring an end to his career, his way of life, and any future he had hoped to have.

Download or read book The Girl in Green written by Derek B. Miller and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling combination of literate storytelling and action-packed thriller laced with humor.” — Library Journal (starred review) Finalist for the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year 1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is an American private who might be an insufferable ignoramus or might be a genuine lunatic with a death wish—it's hard to tell. Desert Storm is over, peace has been declared, but as they argue about whether it makes sense to cross the nearest border in search of an ice cream, they become embroiled in a horrific attack in which a young local girl in a green dress is killed as they are trying to protect her. The two men walk away into their respective lives. But something has cracked for them both. Twenty-two years later, in another place, in another war, they meet again and are offered an unlikely opportunity to redeem themselves when that same girl in green is found alive and in need of salvation. Or is she? “Swift, gripping, and mined with surprises…Arwood Hobbes is as intriguing an operative as Graham Greene's quiet American, but without the quiet.”—David Shafer, author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot “[A] stellar, electrifying story with a knockout ending.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A penetrating, poetic, and unexpectedly disarming book about the ageless conflict in the Middle East.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A Catch-22 for the twenty-first century.”—Madison Smartt Bell, National Book Award finalist and author of All Souls' Rising

Download or read book No Mercy written by Roberta Kray and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maddie Layne's life hasn't been the same since her sister was murdered. The police never found Greta's body so all Maddie was left with was unanswered questions - and her orphaned nephew, Zac, to look after. She works hard to make sure Zac has everything he needs; she even tends graves for some extra cash. Maddie isn't looking for any trouble. Lucy Rivers died decades ago under suspicious circumstances and the people responsible believe the entire affair is over. And then the mysterious Cato hires Maddie to tend to Lucy's neglected grave. Maddie starts asking innocent questions, but when she learns that the deaths of her sister and Lucy are linked she knows she must dig deeper. Lena Gissing, matriarch of one of the East End's most vicious families, has a vested interest in making sure the truth stays buried. She's not about to let a nobody like Maddie Layne get in the way . . .

Download or read book Carl Williams written by Adam Shand and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlikely crime boss, serial killer, prison snitch, suburban boy turned bad, cult hero – who was the real Carl Williams? When the 'baby-faced killer' met his shocking end in Barwon Prison's maximum-security unit, he left in his wake a trail of brutal murders, an underworld in flames, a police service stinking of corruption, and a broken family. How could a bogan boy from Broadmeadows, underestimated by all as lazy and stupid, have risen to the top of Melbourne's crime scene and created such widespread havoc? Bestselling author Adam Shand takes us into Carl's world: the family poverty that made him hungry for success at any cost, the shifting sands of allegiances within the rival crime factions, and the fear, greed and thirst for revenge that drove him to murder. From Williams' early forays into the drug trade, the gunshot wound to the stomach that sparked a bloody gangland war, through to the car-crash fascination of his relationship with Roberta, Shand shows us the man behind the cocky grin, and examines how and why he came to his grisly end.

Download or read book Chicago Gang Land written by James O'Donnell Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Innocent A Jack Marconi PI Thriller written by Vincent Zandri and published by Vincent Zandri. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD HAS TURNED ITS BACK ON YOU, WHO CAN YOU TRUST? NO ONE. NOT EVEN YOURSELF! In 1997, Green Haven Prison went insane… They call him Keeper, but lately Jack Marconi has specialized in losing things. Just last year, he lost his wife in a mysterious traffic accident, and ever since, he’s felt like he’s losing his mind. As the warden of the maximum-security Green Haven Prison, home to 2,500 of New York’s most hardened criminals, Marconi can’t afford to drop focus, even for an instant. But he’s been slipping up on the job, and he’s tormented by flashbacks to the Attica uprising. All of which makes him ripe for the role of patsy when a convicted cop killer named Eduardo Vasquez stages a daring breakout on his watch. From the start, Marconi suspects an inside job. What he doesn’t suspect is that he’ll become the target of a frame-up. Soon drugs are planted in Marconi’s office, embarrassing photos are circulated, and he finds himself facing trumped-up charges of obstruction of justice. With his supervisors clearly setting him up to take the fall, Marconi hatches a desperate scheme to clear his name. Kidnapping the escaped killer’s girlfriend, he arms himself with a .45 and takes off in pursuit of Vasquez--and the truth. Once sworn to uphold the law, Marconi will have to elude it if he wants to bring this conspiracy to light. Otherwise Keeper could lose everything: his job, his reputation--and even his life. Grab your fast-paced, thrilling copy now! What the critics are saying: "A hugely successful series...Vincent Zandri’s The Guilty is a gripping combination of old-school hardboiled detective yarn and a ‘80s high-octane action movie. Immensely enjoyable." --Paul D. Brazill, Pulp Metal Magazine "Tough, stylish, heartbreaking." --Don Winslow, bestselling author of Savages "A riveting story..oh, what a story it is: grisly, surprising, and page-turningly suspenseful. A terrific old-school thriller." --Booklist (starred review) "Captures readers’ attention from the opening scene...creates a story that... is hard to tear away from once a reader is hooked." --BookPage "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant." --New York Post "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal "Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting." --Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Six Years "Non-stop action." --I Love a Mystery