Download or read book The Gangster s Kiss written by Ginger Ring and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John O'Malley's sister is missing. All the clues of her disappearance lead to Hayward County, Wisconsin and the crooks and questionable sheriff who resides there. Pretending to be one of them, John takes a job as bodyguard for the sheriff's beautiful sister, Grace. It seems like the perfect way to investigate their crimes and corruption, but when someone threatens to kill Grace, the job proves harder than he thought. Is she an innocent witness to a crime, or just as guilty as everyone else? Grace Sullivan just wanted a normal life: find a good man, get married and have a family. She has had enough of looking the other way while her brother hides behind his sheriff's badge to conduct shady dealings. Hiring a gangster named John to watch her is the final straw. When a face from the past threatens her life, she is forced to put her life in John's hands, but as time goes on, all she really wants is to be in the gangster's arms.
Download or read book The Gangster s Kiss written by Ginger Ring and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John O'Malley's sister is missing. All the clues of her disappearance lead to Hayward County, Wisconsin and the crooks and questionable sheriff that reside there. Pretending to be one of them, John takes a job as bodyguard for the sheriff's beautiful sister, Grace. It seems like the perfect way to investigate their crimes and corruption, but when someone threatens to kill Grace, the job proves harder than he thought. Is she an innocent witness to a crime, or just as guilty as everyone else? Grace Sullivan just wanted a normal life: find a good man, get married and have a family. She has had enough of looking the other way while her brother hides behind his sheriff's badge to conduct shady dealings. Hiring a gangster named John to watch her is the final straw. When a face from the past threatens her life, she is forced to put her life in John's hands, but as time goes on, all she really wants is to be in the gangster's arms.
Download or read book Stolen Kisses written by Khardine Gray and published by Bliss Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today bestselling author, Khardine Gray, comes a smoking hot Mafia romance with a drool-worthy, possessive bad boy you’ll wish was yours… Dante Everyone knows who I am: Dante Giordano, capo to the new Chicago Mafia boss and member of the infamous Four. Ruthless and bad to the bone. That’s me. Don’t be fooled by my good looks and charm. I’m a dangerous man and I get what I want. Women, money, power. It all comes easy to me. All of it… except her… 20% Angel, 80% devil… The night Maria stormed back into my life, she reminded me I never had her. Killing me softly with that body made for sin and her beautiful eyes, everything about her was temptation. One taste and I wanted more. So much more. The problem was, she knows I’m bad news and she’s already running from trouble. Her ex-con ex wants her dead. I don’t care who he is, he doesn’t know who he’s messing with. Nothing’s going to stop me from protecting her. I get what I want. And I want her to be mine. Maria I was the girl who had to pick the worst bad guy, and I never learned my lesson. I witnessed my abusive ex murder a man in cold blood, and he knows I’m the one who told the cops it was him. When he gets mysteriously cleared of all charges I know I'm as good as dead. I’m fleeing for life and I have to protect my son. It’s not a good idea to run from one bad guy to another. Yet that’s exactly what I’m doing. Being with Dante is exactly that. Tall, dark and sinfully gorgeous. That’s him. The spark that sizzles between us draws me in. His touch ignites something deep inside me I should deny. He’s a mistake, yet everything I need… The problem was, I know he’s bad news, but I also have a secret. One that could make him turn from me. I never meant for any of this to happen. Stolen Kisses is a standalone, full-length mafia romance and a part of the Gangsters and Dolls series. Gangsters and Dolls series is a spin off from The Accidental Mafia Queen series. Continue the adventure with these sizzling hot, drool-worthy Alpha males.
Download or read book The Gangster written by Clive Cussler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn-of-the-century Detective Isaac Bell takes on the upstart leader of a vicious crime organization in this novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. They like to take the oldest tricks and add dynamite. When a coalition of the Black Hand’s victims hire out the Van Dorn agency to protect their businesses, their reputations, and their families, Detective Isaac Bell forms a crack squad and begins scouring the city for clues. And then he spots a familiar face. The stakes grow ever-higher, with the Black Hand becoming more ambitious, and their targets more political. If Bell can’t determine the role played by the face from his past, the next life lost could be one of the most powerful men in the nation.
Download or read book The Gangster Film written by John Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.
Download or read book The Gangster Film written by Ron Wilson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the gangster film in its historical context with an emphasis on the ways the image of the gangster has adapted and changed as a result of socio-cultural circumstances. From its origins in Progressive-era reforms to its use as an indictment of corporate greed, the gangster film has often provided a template for critiquing American ideas and values concerning individualism, success, and business acumen. The gangster genre has also been useful in critically examining race and ethnicity in American culture in terms of "otherness." Films studied include Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), The Racket (1928), The Captive City (1952), The Godfather, Part Two (1974), Goodfellas (1990), and Killing Them Softly (2012).
Download or read book The Bedtrick written by Wendy Doniger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Download or read book Gangsters and G Men on Screen written by Gene D. Phillips and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the gangster film may have enjoyed its heyday in the 1930s and ’40s, it has remained a movie staple for almost as long as cinema has existed. From the early films of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson to modern versions like Bugsy, Public Enemies, and Gangster Squad, such films capture the brutality of mobs and their leaders. In Gangsters and G-Men on Screen: Crime Cinema Then and Now, Gene D. Phillips revisits some of the most popular and iconic representations of the genre. While this volume offers new perspectives on some established classics—usual suspects like Little Caesar, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather Part II—Phillips also calls attention to some of the unheralded but no less worthy films and filmmakers that represent the genre. Expanding the viewer’s notion of what constitutes a gangster film, Phillips offers such unusual choices as You Only Live Once, Key Largo, The Lady from Shanghai, and even the 1949 version of The Great Gatsby. Also included in this examination are more recent ventures, such as modern classics The Grifters and Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. In his analyses, Phillips draws on a number of sources, including personal interviews with directors and other artists and technicians associated with the films he discusses. Of interest to film historians and scholars, Gangsters and G-Men on Screen will also appeal to anyone who wants to better understand the films that represent an important contribution to crime cinema.
Download or read book The Gangster Film Reader written by Alain Silver and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s the gangster film in the United States coincided with a very real and very sensational gangsterism at large in American society. Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932) borrowed liberally from the newspapers and books of the era. With the release of just these three motion pictures in barely more than a year's time, Hollywood quintessentially defined the genre. The characters, the situations, and the icons-from fast cars and tommy-guns to fancy fedoras and fancier molls-established the audience expectations associated with the gangster film that remain in force to this day. As with their Film Noir Reader series, using both reprints of seminal articles and new pieces, editors Silver and Ursini have assembled a group of essays that presents an exhaustive overview of this still vital genre. Reprints of work by such well-known film historians as Robin Wood, Andrew Sarris, Carlos Clarens, Paul Schrader, and Stuart Kaminsky explore the evolution of the gangster film through the 1970s and The Godfather. Parts 2 and 3 comprise two dozen newer articles, most of them written expressly for this volume by Ursini and Silver. These case studies and thematic analyses, from White Heat to the remake of Scarface to "The Sopranos," complete the anthology.
Download or read book Screening the Mafia written by George S. Larke-Walsh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "post-classic" era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonnie and Clyde, achieving a milestone five years later with the popular and highly influential The Godfather. This historical study explores the structure, myths and intertextual narratives found in the gangster films produced since The Godfather. The intense relationship between masculinity and ethnicity in the gangster film, especially within the movie-generated mythology of the Mafia, is carefully analyzed, and the book tracks the trends in the genre up to and including the landmark HBO television series The Sopranos (1999-2007). A selected filmography is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book Gangsters written by Phil Hardy and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing critical notes, complete with plo t synopses and credits, Gangsters provides an illustrated en cyclopedia of more than 1500 films that deal with gangsters, the law, smugglers, shoot-outs and crimebusters and related topics. '
Download or read book Hitman s Kiss written by Kate Sands and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never could have dreamt that my life would turn out the way it did. There was never any warning that it would end up being conflicted, chaotic and dangerous. Most of my childhood felt relatively normal, aside from watching my father's gambling habit develop. When my apartment door was knocked down one night, and I was kidnapped by two men from a wild family crime unit, I thought I'd never live to see tomorrow. What were they going to do with me? How was I going to live a normal life again? As it turns out, I did live to see another day, but not until I was drugged, hit with a poison arrow and moved from safe-house to brothel,all in the name of barter for my father's debts. Who would have thought? To think that I would actually find love amidst all of this seemed absurd, but as they say: the truth is stranger than fiction.
Download or read book Cagney written by John McCabe and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based on Cagney's life--a show that never saw the light of day--make him Cagney's ideal biographer. And, indeed, he has written a searching chronicle of this major actor's life and career, packed with history and anecdote, and profusely illustrated. Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his métier as an actor, it was not long before he was recognized as a brilliantly energetic and powerful phenomenon. After the tremendous impact of Public Enemy--in which he notoriously pushed half a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face--he was typecast as a gangster because of the terrifying violence that seemed to be pent up within him. Years of pitched battle with Warner Brothers finally liberated him from those roles, and he went on to star in such triumphs as the musicals Yankee Doodle Dandy (winning the 1942 Oscar for best actor) and Love Me or Leave Me. Even so, one of his greatest later roles involved a return to crime--as the psychopathic killer in the terrifying White Heat. He retired from films in 1961 after making Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, only to return twenty years later for Ragtime. But however much Cagney personified violence and explosive energy on the screen, in life he was a quiet, introspective, and deeply private man, a poet, painter, and environmentalist, whose marriage to his early vaudeville partner was famously loyal and happy. His story is one of the few Hollywood biographies that reflect a fulfilled life as well as a spectacular career.
Download or read book Mafias Kiss written by Darcy Ray and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One witnessed murder can change your life forever. How it changes depends on you. My life was full of one-night stands and dirty alleyways, but the moment I witnessed Dominik Romanov, Washington's most powerful crime lord, commit murder, my life as I knew it was over. After being tossed head first into a world of blood, drugs, and sex, I climbed the ranks until I proved my worth. I became the prodigy. I proved that I could handle the mafia life. But then, three drool worthy hellions walk into my life. They are my boss' nephews and to me, everything about them is perfect; their loud music, fierce loyalty, and cold-blooded lifestyles... But when is perfect ever a good thing? The hierarchy of the Mafia is put to the test when a traitor exposes the underground to the light of day. Overnight a war is started and our hold on the throne is shaken. With all the bedlam and bloodshed, will I be able to survive until the end? Or will the people gunning to take over territory win? War is brutal, but the mafia is deadly.---------------This story is a #whychoose, which means there will be mfmmm & mfm.Please be warned, there are possibly multiple triggers and this series is intended for mature audiences due to its sexual content and graphic language.
Download or read book Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye written by Horace McCoy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVMcCoy’s hardboiled noir classic, about an Ivy League graduate’s criminal rampage through the seedy underground and glitzy high society of an unnamed American city/divDIV /divDIVTo escape prison, Ralph Cotter uses the same genius for planning and penchant for cold-hearted violence that helped earn him a spot in the slammer in the first place. On the lam in a city where he knows nobody, Cotter has nothing to lose, no conscience to hold him back, and no limit to his twisted ambition. But in the midst of a criminal spree, a grift leads him to the boudoir of wealthy heiress Margaret Dobson, a woman with the power to peel back the rotten layers of his psyche and reveal the damaged soul beneath./divDIV /divDIVVicious and thrilling, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is a look at one man’s relentless attack on American society, conjuring one of the most memorable antiheros of twentieth-century noir fiction./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an extended biography of Horace McCoy./div/div
Download or read book The Movie Guide written by James Monaco and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Big Sleep to Babette's Feast, from Lawrence of Arabia to Drugstore Cowboy, The Movie Guide offers the inside word on 3,500 of the best motion pictures ever made. James Monaco is the president and founder of BASELINE, the world's leading supplier of information to the film and television industries. Among his previous books are The Encyclopedia of Film, American Film Now, and How to Read a Film.
Download or read book Dreams and Dead Ends written by Jack Shadoian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams and Dead Ends provides a compelling history of the twentieth-century American gangster film. Beginning with Little Caesar (1930) and ending with Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995), Jack Shadoian adroitly analyzes twenty notable examples of the crime film genre. Moving chronologically through nearly seven decades, this volume offers illuminating readings of a select group of the classic films--including The Public Enemy, D.O.A., Bonnie and Clyde, and The Godfather--that best define and represent each period in the development of the American crime film. Richly illustrated with more than seventy film stills, Dreams and Dead Ends details the evolution of the genre through insightful and precise considerations of cinematography, characterization, and narrative style. This updated edition includes new readings of three additional movies--Once Upon a Time in America, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, and Criss Cross--and brings this clear and lively discussion of the history of the gangster film to the end of the twentieth century.
