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 and deadly community of Mafia soldiers, "connected guys", captains and godfathers.
Perhaps not content with their standard anti-social activities, it seems that more and more criminals are angling for respectability by publishing their autobiographies--luridly bragging about their endeavours and romanticising their misdeeds. Certainly, there is a morbid fascination to be gained but if the recollections of Edward Bunker are anythi...more
Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year. Crais, a VP at Paramount, was previously head script writer for Quincy, Hill Street Blues, and Cagney and Lacey.
No one could have imagined Odd Thomas ever leaving the perfect quirky comfort of Pico Mundo, least of all Odd himself. The little desert town that nurtured Odd all his life is the locus of everything he holds dear-his loyal friends, his ghostly confidants, and the place where he loved and lost his soul mate, the irreplaceable Stormy Llewellyn. Yet ...more
El libro de Dickie, muy documentado y de apasionante lectura, es un repaso a la historia de la mafia siciliana desde su remota fundación en el siglo XVIII hasta nuestros días. El autor, con una narración que se sigue de forma trepidante, ofrece un estudio pormenorizado de cómo aparece, cuáles fueron las razones y cómo se fue articulando esta...more
During the mid-'80s Howard Marks had forty-three aliases and eighty-nine phone lines, and he owned twenty-five companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks -- all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core business: dope dealing. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons o...more
Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother's killers, after a series of brutal crimes terrorizes tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town's peaceful facade. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. BOMC Feat Alt.
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