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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived: Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line. The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, manages to crash land in the middle of the Montana wilderness....
Author
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...
3) Parker
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Parker is a thief who has an unusual code. He doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. He is asked to join four other guys, one of whom is related to a known mobster. They pull off the job flawlessly and Parker wants to part ways with them. When he refuses to join them for another job, they try to kill him. They dispose of his body, but someone finds him...still alive. After recovering, he sets out to get back at the ones who tried to...
4) John Wick
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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
6) Gone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
7) Phantom boy
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
A boy uses his super powers to help a handicapped policeman bring down a mob kingpin.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mobster Jackie Dee DiNorscio tries to strike a bargain with police: a shorter prison term in exchange for ratting on his fellow mobsters. He takes matters in his own hands when he defends himself instead, turning the courtroom upside down.
9) Crime story
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myers must finally face the consequences of his dark past in this action-packed crime thriller.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. A man leaves his gangster-filled lifestyle to start over with his family. After he relocates to Los Angeles, it isn't long before the world of crime that he tried to escape finds him. Threatened by a dangerous gangster, his criminal cousin and a drug lord, he finds getting a fresh start almost impossible. He'll do whatever it takes to keep those close to him safe, even if it means going back to his old ways.
11) Keanu
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a man's kitten is stolen during a robbery, he and a friend set out into the criminal underground to find the animal.
12) The kitchen
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.
14) Close
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Lily Diamond escapes her life of poverty and parental neglect by marrying London gangster Patrick Brodie, she become acquainted with his world of crime, violence, and betrayal as she tries to raise her children with love.
15) American sicario
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
American gangster Erik Vasquez schemes to become the top dog in the Mexican underworld, only to find himself making enemies out of both the powerful cartels and his own allies.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the "untouchable" Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone's remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York. Tutored by the likes of infamous mobsters Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, young Capone's disquieting demeanor, combined with the "technical advice" he learned from these insidious pedagogues, contributed...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Indonesian
Description
As a S.W.A.T. team is raiding a safe house run by a notorious drug lord, they find themselves stranded on the sixth floor after they are spotted and must fight the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters to escape.
19) Shadows and lies
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011, 2010.
Language
English
Description
When he falls for a gangster's favorite call girl, a quiet criminal must flee New York City. After four years in exile, Vincent secretly returns to the city intent on saving the woman he loves.
20) Angelmaker
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
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