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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...
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.
85) Hoodlum
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A gangster refuses to let others into his numbers racket. Set in Harlem during the 1930s.
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
Series
Harry McCoy novels volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"July 1973. The Glasgow drug trade is booming and Bobby March, homegrown rock hero, has overdosed in a downtown hotel. Alice Kelly is thirteen years old, alone, and missing. Harry McCoy is quietly asked to find his boss's niece, who's fallen in with a dodgy crowd and hasn't been seen for days. McCoy has a hunch that there's a connection between all three events, but nobody's interested in hunches: the clock is running, the papers are out for blood,...
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!"--
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military and serving in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
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
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.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian kill-or-be-killed future, a Russian mobster hires ruthless mercenary Toorop to smuggle a mysterious young woman named Aurora and her caretaker from a convent in post-apocalyptic Russia to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. But as the trio flee to safety, Toorop discovers deadly secrets about Aurora involving a doomsday cult.
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A tough-talking former GI comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; events turn out neither as planned nor at all well.
95) The veteran
Publisher
Inception Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan he finds it hard to fit back into society. He takes a job in undercover surveillance and soon becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are linked to a suspected terrorist cell. His plan to assassinate the thugs is sabotaged and his rage spirals out of control as he embarks on a brutal quest for justice with devastating consequences.
96) Lansky
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When aging gangster Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds, who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars, Lansky spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
98) The survivor
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Nate, a former soldier suffering from PTSD and diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease nine months earlier, is about to leap off an 11th-floor ledge of a bank building in Santa Monica, Calif., when he notices a robbery in progress through the window next to where he is standing. He climbs back in the window undetected, grabs a handgun a masked man has conveniently set down and succeeds in shooting dead five of the six robbers. In revenge, the thwarted...
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