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2) Heist
Publisher
Lionsgate Premier
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When their attempt to rob a casino goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not only have to outwit the police, but he will have to contend with Pope's maniacal right-hand man, Dog, in order to make it through the day alive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"An orphan's life is harsh -- and often short -- in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld's most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens...
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
Keung, a Hong Kong cop, comes to New York to see his uncle get married. The uncle has recently sold his store to Elaine, who wants to sell it after she refuses to pay protection money to a biker gang. When Keung finds out about her situation, he does all he can to protect her. Meanwhile, a crippled Chinese boy is surprised to discover that someone has stashed stolen diamonds in his wheelchair. He and Keung become friends and work on solving this case....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The astonishing story of Benny Binion-a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas backwater, Binion rose to prominence on a combination of vision, determination, and brutal expediency. His...
7) John Wick
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
10) Phantom boy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Leo is a phantom boy due to a mysterious illness. It enables him to leave his body and explore the city as a ghost. In the hospital one day, he befriends Alex, a NYC cop. Alex had gotten injured while attempting to capture a gangster who has caused chaos in the metropolis. Now this extraordinary duo work together to foil the plot of the villianous gangster and save New York from destruction.
11) True romance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The story of two unlikely lovers who find themselves in possession of a suitcase full of valuable mob contraband which they plan to take from Detroit to Los Angeles, sell, and begin a new life.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
When his late mother appears in a vision and tells him to go to Bucharest, Charlie immediately boards a plane. When he meets a fellow passenger, Charlie finds himself with another promise to fulfill. Charlie does, and falls in love with Gabi, a beautiful musician. However, a vicious gangster has already laid claim to Gabi, and has no intention of letting her go. Determined to protect her, Charlie enters into the hallucinatory, Romanian underworld...
13) Mikey and Nicky
Publisher
Castle Hill Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Nicky has embezzled a fortune from his Mafia bosses and is on the run. Nicky's only friend, Mikey tries to help him escape; or will he lead him into a trap?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
16) Bad lieutenant
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A middle aged policeman has no escape from his underground connections with gamblers, drug dealers and cheap sex. A case of a raped nun who forgives her aggressors shakes him deeply. But his quest for changing his life comes too late. The gang he owes gambling money to has no more patience, and shoots him dead.
19) The protector
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 3
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Thai
Description
Kham grew up with elephants in Thailand. To him elephants are majestic creatures, bred for peace, but prepared for war. When an evil Asian gang kidnap a bull and baby elephant during a festival, they are smuggled into Sydney, Australia. Kham must travel to a foreign land, and unravel a conspiracy that will reach into the highest levels of Australian law and business circles. With only his Muy Thai fighting techniques, and a disgraced Thai-descent...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
After a Los Angeles lawyer is killed by the Chinese mafia, his brother flies to Hong Kong, accompanied by a black woman detective. Together they battle an organization smuggling drugs and immigrants into the United States. By the author of King Con.
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