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Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost-lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Britain's poorest city, Dublin. Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British--and then they go to find them in America....
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With gimlet eyed cool and razor sharp wit, The Low Desert explores both the depravity and humanity at the heart of Tod Goldberg's critically acclaimed gangster universe, first introduced in Gangsterland, continued in Gangster Nation, and expanded here with all-new and returning characters. The uncle of an FBI agent spends his life as sheriff in different cities, living too close to the violent acts of men; a cocktail waitress moves through several...
43) 36 streets
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity, and the power of narratives. Lin "The Silent One" Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tatsu faces off against his toughest opponent yet--a cunning little girl who refuses to eat her vegetables! It's going to take more than some quick sleight of hand to get one over on this smart cookie. Does the Immortal Dragon have what it takes to deliver the goods?"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When his lover is killed by their mob boss, a hardened criminal insider decides to pursue one last elaborate heist in an effort to rid himself of his underground lifestyle for good. Barrett Rye has always been told he can be only one thing in life: an enforcer. He's a seven-foot wall of muscle and the most effective collector in the largest criminal enterprise in the Midwest. After he realizes he wants more out of life than hurting people, he and...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The cozy yakuza comedy continues as everyone's favorite househusband finds himself in even more crazy high jinks. Between a donut showdown and a new lady cop on the beat, Tatsu may have finally met his match! It's just another day for the Immortal Dragon."-- provided by publisher.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Through the Torii group's yakuza matriarch, Tatsu bags himself a new hustle as an enforcer--for the local supermarket! The gig? Catching shoplifters, of course! But can a househusband formerly known as "the Immortal Dragon" really change his allegiance, or will he be the one led out in cuffs instead?"--
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"No second chances Tension mounts as Minato, who's mind was mysteriously swapped into the body of a wanted man on the run for murder, tries to figure out his next move. Stranded, alone, he starts to formulate a plan to get to his younger sister, who's now in the care of the man whose body he swapped with, without suspicion. However, it's not only the police after the man whose body he now occupies-a shadowy organization called the Dodokai is closing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts by guys (and a few gals) who were big shots back in the 1960s and 1970s, and who are now hoping for one more gasp of glory with this nostalgia exhibition. The Rock of Ages tour has proved itself to be anything but a love fest: plenty of the bandmates have been feuding for forty years, and-perhaps unsurprisingly-drugs...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Tatsu must help Masa move his operation to a new pad, and fast, after the cocky kid lands himself in trouble with the wrong enforcer--his landlady! There's just one catch--the kid lacks the funds to make any big moves. Luckily for Masa, the Immortal Dragon has some househusband tricks up his sleeve to transform even the cheapest, shadiest apartment into a comfortable crib!"--
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tatsu is tasked with squeezing the locals for money owed to the association the neighborhood association, that is. But when the former gangster tries to collect, what should be a quick and easy job ends up anything but! All your faves are back in action as the cozy yakuza comedy continues!"-- cover page 4.
Series
Island in a puddle volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Minato's tiny apartment might as well be on a deserted island. Despite being in elementary school, it falls on his shoulders to care for his little sister Nagisa, who never stops asking when their mother will make one of her infrequent visits home. One day when she stops by, their mother takes them to an amusement park, only to give Minato cash and leave them at the Ferris wheel. However, as they reach the top of the ride, [lightning] strikes their...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Gangsters and hoodlums prey upon people's weaknesses for a quick buck in an era that saw few bucks to spare, making criminals of everyday folks in the rural Great Depression. In a place as wild as the West ever was, in the heyday of the badmen and the lawmen, the law is in short supply. U.S. Marshal Nelson Lane chases a fleeing murder suspect from the frontier of the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming all the way to the big city of El Reno...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"On a fateful July morning in 2015, a riot takes hold of Her Majesty's Prison in Bream, Gloucestershire, with fatal consequences. The staff is caught completely off-guard--their supervising warden, Governor Magda Lyle, hasn't shown up for work, and the prisoners are able to start a fire that nearly results in a mass escape. Three years later and forty miles south, a most controversial wedding is about to take place in Bath's gorgeous Abbey, with a...
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin--a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as 'Projects' and to others as 'dickhead' - who is gagged and tied to a chair. The thugs say Juan Pablo must work for them. His...
57) Hot shot
Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Sisterhood is a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies have formed a top-secret organization with the same goals. When Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is critically injured in a shooting, the men of head straight to Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie and find the assailant. As the head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies, but the shooting may be related to a private project: Happy...
58) The target
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
"Dear Reader: You're about to enter a labyrinth where the unthinkable happens and the unimaginable becomes terrifyingly real. Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Colorado Rockies. But his isolation is shattered when he rescues a small girl unconscious in the forest and strangers invade his private meadow, their intent to kill. Molly Santera, the little girl's mother,...
Series
Island in a puddle volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A childhood in the underworld Evading police, suspicious neighbors, jealous boyfriends, and the traitorous co-conspirator after his body, Minato is tracked down by the mysterious Dodokai and asked to do their bidding. His plans to return home and figure out what happened to his body, now occupied by the mind of the murderer whose body he occupies, are becoming harder and harder to realize."-- cover page 4.
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