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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
4) Loyalty
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"Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome laborer toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning a lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. When the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and the history of Sicily... Gaetano Catalano is an idealistic young lawyer whose devotion to justice is tantamount to a calling. He's a member...
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Butcher's boy volume 3
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Years after the Butcher's Boy wipes out several mobsters and disappears, Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is approached by the mythical hit man, who asks her for crucial information in exchange for helping her to crack an unsolved murder case.
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Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful modern-day Helen of Troy comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more "legit" life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like...
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On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. And when Hollywood starts shooting...
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Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
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English
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The story of a syndicate leader, his family life and his operations in the crime world.
10) Omerta
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Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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When Don Raymonde Aprile, an old-school Mafia leader who has retired, is killed, it is not his children, who were kept strictly away from their father's business, who seek to avenge him, but his Sicilian-born ward, Astorre, the son of an even greater Mafia chieftain
11) The last Don
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Random House Large Print in association with Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
12) The witness
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English
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"A brand new novel--and a stunning new heroine--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"-- provided by publisher.
14) Vanilla Ride
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Hap Collins and Leonard Pine novels volume 7
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 2
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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In the final installment of the saga of the Corleone crime family, New Orleans under-boss Carlo Tramonti is deported to Colombia and turns dangerously vengeful, triggering a series of events that change the course of American history.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Royal Beaumont, the corrupt crime boss who controls Altonville, a thriving center for vice tourism, finds his empire up for grabs as the town erupts into violence due to a black revolutionary movement, juvenile gangs, and hired killers.
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Chang xiao xiao shuo volume 017
Publisher
Chun guang chu ban
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
20) Bridger
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Bridger suspense stories volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
Description
Bridger steals things. He has kept out of prison by following two rules: never work with a partner, and, never work with the mob. When an ex-girlfriend talks him into stealing a four-million-dollar coin collection, he ends up framed for murder, and on the run from the mob and the police
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