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More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones-and became the definitive novel of the virile, violent subculture that remains steeped in intrigue, in controversy, and in our collective consciousness.

Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle (Son of the Mob (Paperback))

Son of the Mob: Hollywood Hustle (Son of the Mob (Paperback))

by Gordon Korman

Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kidsæhis father happens to be the head of a powerful crime organization. Needless to say, while Vince's family's connections can be handy for certain... (more)

Wiseguy

by Nicholas Pileggi

"At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." -- Henry Hill Wiseguy is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some people call the Mafia. Wiseguy is Henry Hill's story, in... (more)

Gangster

by Lorenzo Carcaterra

Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption. Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and... (more)

Son of the Mob : Hollywood Hustle

by Gordon Korman

When mafia prince Vince Luca heads out to start college in sunny L.A., he’s relieved to be finally leaving his shady family and their illegal antics behind. Upon his arrival, Vince is paired up with the son of a prominent congressman as a roommate––finally, some respectability! Not to mention that the girls in college are beyond tempting. With his girlfriend, Kendra, giving him such a hard time, Vince is beginning... (more)

Pepper Martin Mysteries: Book 1

Don of the Dead

by Casey Daniels

She sees dead people Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life -- until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud, her wealthy fiancé took a powder, and the family fortune ran bone dry. Suddenly desperate, the inexperienced ex-rich girl was forced to take the only job she could get: as a tour guide in a cemetery. But a grave situation took a turn for the worse when a... (more)

Agnes and the Hitman

by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named Rhett and you’ve got a recipe for a sexy, hilarious novel about the disastrous side of true love… Agnes Crandall’s life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen one night, seriously hampering her attempts to put on a wedding that she’s... (more)

Blindsight

by Robin Cook

Organ transplants are common today. But the master of medical suspense imagines what could happen when supply falls short of demand.

The Last Don

by Mario Puzo

The author of The Godfather returns with a violent and darkly humorous saga of the last great American crime family and its reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. With keen insights into the authentic life of the mafia, Puzo tells the story of Domenico Clericuzio, a ferocious old man who is determined to secure his family's future in an era of legalized gambling, motion-picture investments, and the threat of... (more)

Exposure: A Novel

by Brandilyn Collins

Someone is watching Kaycee Raye. But who will believe her? In Kayceeâ€™s newspaper column sheâ€™s known for writing of her paranoia and fears. Is the new danger realâ€”or is she going crazy? In this story of terror, twists, and desperate faith, the startling questions pile high. But Kayceeâ€™s descent to answers proves even more frightening.

The Last Jew Standing: A Novel

by Michael Simon

Will detective Dan Reles arrest his own father . . . or will the mob find him first? Lieutenant Dan Reles has a new house, a wife, and a son, and a great career as head of Austin Homicide, but it’s funny how your past catches up with you. When Dan’s deadbeat father Ben Reles, a Mafia legbreaker who’s spent the last twenty years on the run, shows up on Dan’s doorstep with an escaped prostitute in tow, trouble... (more)

No house limit,: A novel of Las Vegas

by Steve Fisher

Joe Martin, owner of the Rainbow’s End casino in Las Vegas, is an independent operator who coexists uneasily with the syndicate, holding down his place on the Strip by keeping both his head and heart strictly on task. But when the syndicate sends the world’s best gambler to the Rainbow’s End craps tables to break the bank—at the exact moment when Martin thinks he might be falling in love—he finds himself under... (more)

Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob

by Bob Delaney

In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball's most respected referees. In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New Jersey State Trooper when his superiors approached him with a tantalizing yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby Covert, the president of... (more)

Ten Cents a Dance

by Christine Fletcher

With her mother ill, it’s up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago’s poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of “fishing”: working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even... (more)

Fete of Death

by Bryan Cassiday

A California senator is brutally slain. But that is only the beginning of the increasingly macabre murders of members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA hire their termination specialist, Tyrone Quade, an ex-Weathermen infiltrator and current jailbird, to find the killer. Quade has to be pardoned from federal prison in Los Angeles, where he is doing time for blowing up a passenger jet--a... (more)

Rosato & Associates: Book 12

Lady Killer

by Lisa Scottoline

Mary DiNunzio has become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates. But the last person she expects to walk into her office one morning—in mile-high stilettos—is super-sexy Trish Gambone, her high-school rival. Back when Mary was becoming the straight-A president of the Latin Club and Most Likely to Achieve Sainthood, Trish was the head Mean Girl, who flunked religion and excelled at smoking in the... (more)

Vigilante Witch Hunter

by Gary Turcotte

Every dark cloud does not have a silver lining. Melissa married the man of her dreams. She didn't know that he was a fortune teller. His secret life brought many dark hearted people into Melissa's future. She wondered if her soul mate had sold his soul to the devil. Sometimes a buried treasure is best left alone.

Red, White & Dead

by Laura Caldwell

Izzy McNeil is hot on the trail of one of Chicago's most notorious gangsters. Not that he realizes the crimson-tressed enchantress, a self-proclaimed "lapsed lawyer," is moonlighting as a private investigator. But when an unexpected run-in trashes Izzy's cover, she's swept into an evil underworld where she is definitely not safe. That is until Izzy receives help from an unlikely source: the ultimate guardian... (more)

The Sky Is Falling

by Sidney Sheldon

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by Mario Puzo

by Gordon Korman

by Nicholas Pileggi

by Lorenzo Carcaterra

by Gordon Korman

by Casey Daniels

by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

by Robin Cook

by Mario Puzo

by Brandilyn Collins

by Michael Simon

by Steve Fisher

by Bob Delaney

by Christine Fletcher

by Bryan Cassiday

by Lisa Scottoline

by Gary Turcotte

by Laura Caldwell

by Sidney Sheldon

by Jim Butcher