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3) Layer cake
Author
Publisher
Duck Editions
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
vi, 309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During prohibition two gangland bosses struggle for control over a city, with one of the boss's lieutenants caught in the middle.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After their plane crashes in the Montana wilderness, siblings Kristen and Ryan McIntyre, on the run from their murderous father, the head of a Los Angeles crime family, soon discover there's something even more dangerous in the woods -- something that could determine if they live or die.
6) Don't blink
Author
Language
English
Description
The good: New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three reasons, the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit. The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad boy. In the chaos, he accidentally...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice...
9) Speakeasy
Author
Series
Lena Stillman novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this literate and action-packed historical thriller, set during World War II, a plucky code-breaker fights to keep a deadly secret as her Bonnie-and-Clyde past threatens to catch up with her. Thirty-year-old Lena Stillman is living a perfectly respectable life when a shocking newspaper headline calls up her past: it concerns her former lover, charismatic bank robber Bill Bagley. A romantic and charming figure, Lena had tried to forget him by resuming...
10) What! No beer?
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Effervescent and irreverent slapstick about a couple of regular guys trying to cash in on the end of Prohibition. Durante is a barber who talks Keaton, his dim-bulb taxidermist buddy, into spending his life's savings on a brewery. Determined to be first, they start making beer before Prohibition is actually over. That makes their 'competition' bootlegging thugs, something they didn't count on!
11) Organized crime
Author
Series
Publisher
Eldorado Ink
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect.
13) Some like it hot
Language
English
Description
When Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry accidentally witness a gangland shooting, they quickly board a southbound train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest and homeliest members of an all-female jazz band. Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer falls for Josephine, an ancient playboy falls for Daphne, and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax! Well, nobody's perfect.
14) Viva la madness
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The anonymous hero of the author's previous novel "Layer Cake" tackles the high-tech world of international crime when he is pulled away from retirement and roped into a Venezuelan drug cartel.
15) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
""If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense."--Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. But...
16) Toughs
Author
Publisher
Unbridled Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set during the Great Depression and based in part on real characters and a series of historical events, Toughs follows the story of Loretto Jones as he finds his life intertwined with the fate of Vince Coll, a twenty-three-year-old Irish gangster who for a brief moment rose to the level of a national celebrity during his war with Dutch Schultz, Owen Madden, Lucky Luciano, etc. Tagged "Mad Dog Coll" after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bobby Gold is a lovable criminal. After nearly ten years in prison, he's no sooner out than he's back to work breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant business. It's not that he enjoys the job—Bobby has real heart—but he's good at it, and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can't stay away. Bobby Gold has known
...18) Gangster no. 1
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the bloody, single-minded climb of a crime lord to power. Enter the psyche of an unrepentant mobster who slugs, claws and kills his way to the top. But when he learns that a former mentor he put in prison is about to get out, this self-made mobster must now face a man whose life he ruined ... and confront the twisted remnants of his own demented conscience as well.
19) The long firm
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
20) The big combo
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a gangster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.
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