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Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O'Reilly and Dugard start by tracing the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era. Following the rise of organized crime, they highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the "Five Families," and the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. In addition to the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, O'Reilly and Dugard follow the personal war...
82) American hustle
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 138 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile,...
83) Indigo slam
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Hyperion trade edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles PI Elvis Cole is hired by three children who want to make sure their father, Clark Hewitt, is still alive. Hewitt went into hiding, pursued by Russian counterfeiters on whom he squealed. The investigation takes Elvis to Hewitt's hometown, Seattle, where he runs afoul of both the newly emerging Russian Mafia and U.S. Federal Marshals.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[Blu-ray version, Widesreen format}, the Coppola restoration.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, revealing the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York, and following a parallel story in which Vito's son, Michael Corleone, attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood, and Cuba in the 1950s.
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington DC, know all too well how the tangled web of power in the nation's capital can operate. Attorney General Robert Kennedy needs them to look into a potential threat to the security of the United States. Charlie and Margaret quickly find themselves on a flight to sunny Los Angeles. At the center of their investigation is Frank Sinatra, a close friend of President John F. Kennedy and a...
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English
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A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the Roaring Twenties--the last protégé of Al Capone--to the modern era of organized crime as a dominant corporate power. The Mob's "Man in Hollywood," Johnny Rosselli introduced big-time crime to the movie industry, corrupting unions and robbing moguls in the biggest extortion plot...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23
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English
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"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
90) House reckoning
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 9
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"DeMarco always knew that his father Gino had a shady job for a local mafioso, but he didn't understand that Gino had been a hit man until he was murdered. Now, nearly twenty years later, one of Gino's former mob associates is dying of lung cancer, and he wants to get something off his chest before retiring to his grave: the truth about Gino's killer"--Amazon.com.
91) The family
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English
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"A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
Sofia Colicchio is a free spirit, a loud, untamed thing. Antonia Russo is thoughtful, ever observing the world around her. Best friends from birth, their homes share a brick wall and their fathers are part of an unspoken community that connects them all: the Family. Sunday dinners...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Coppola restoration.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family which tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
93) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Director approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (209 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a legendary moment in Mob history. In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York's most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Syndicate....
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English
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"Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival. Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving and never seemed to be able to let go, despite her discomfort with his Mafia connections. When Richie is shot and nearly killed, Sunny is dragged into the thick...
96) Empire of sin
Publisher
Koch Media GmbH
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Xbox One.
Physical Desc
1 computer disc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Empire of Sin puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago. It's up to you to hustle, charm, and intimidate your way to the top and do whatever it takes to stay there"--Container.
97) Rapid fire
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a killing by a Mafia kingpin, college student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked feds. With the help of a renegade government agent and his stunning sidekick, Jake must use his lethal self-defense skills to stay alive.
98) Casino
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls...
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