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81) AnalyzeThis
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A Mafioso decides he needs a psychotherapist and the doctor he chooses isn't pleased to be chosen to make the don a well-adjusted gangster.
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
"His separation hasn't been working out. His nephew's fiancee has become a distraction. His paroled cousin is giving off bad vibes. His business rival is looking for payback. His therapist isn't buying into the "Two Tonys." It's enough to send any mob boss over the edge. Hell hath no fury like The Sopranos." -back cover
83) Wannabes
Description
When two brothers, Angelo and the younger Paulie, get into a fight, it's broken up by the local Mafia don, the much feared and respected Santo. Fed up with their dead-end jobs, Angelo, Paulie and two friends abandon the 9-5 grind and get mixed up with the local Mafia. They soon find out the hard way that in the mob, you're either made men or you're Wannabes.
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Description
In March of 1992, the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defect broke his blood oath of silence and testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family, the most powerful in the nation. Today, Gotti is serving life in prison without parole. And as a direct consequence of Gravano's testimony, Cosa Nostra - the Mafia's true name - is in shambles....
85) Bad country
Description
In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
86) Run all night
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon, once known as The Gravedigger, has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire, Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past. Lately, it seems Jimmy's only solace can be found at the bottom of a whiskey glass. But when Jimmy's estranged son, Mike, becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago.
87) The Client
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him...but never imagines...
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Series
Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 2
Pub. Date
[1984]
Description
Michael Corleone is now at the end of his two-year exile in Sicily. The Godfather has charged him with a mission: not to return to America until he can find a young man named Salvatore Guiliano.
90) Crooked lines
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Johnny, Chris, Sal and Joe are four petty crooks thrown together for the job of a lifetime. $1 million in mob money being held at a delicatessen for pick-up seems like an easy score until the bumbling quartet collaborate to mess the whole thing up. Suddenly the Brooklyn mafia and police are on their trail and the foolproof plan now looks like a death trap.
Series
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.
92) The family
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
93) Casino
Pub. Date
1998
Description
The story of the rise and fall of three friends in 1970s-era Las Vegas: Mafia-connected casino operator Sam "Ace" Rothstein, Mafia enforcer Nicky Santoro, and hustler Ginger McKenna.
As the opening credits say, the film is "adapted from a true story". The source material is Pileggi's nonfiction biography of Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, and most of the characters in the film are based on real people.
94) The juror
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A struggling single mother impulsively agrees to serve on a jury hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum life. She gets far more than she bargained for when she's forced to sacrifice the truth to save her son from the mob's seductive, psychotic enforcer.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A brief history of the Black Hand and Mafia in Colorado and the connection of western mobsters to crime members in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. Highlights leaders including Roma, Colletti, and the Smaldones and examines the court case of "Scotty" Spinuzzi who was acquitted of murder.
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 5
Description
Sleuth Jane Whitefield, the Indian woman who helps people in trouble disappear, goes to the aid of a woman on the run from the Mafia. She discovers a money-laundering operation and proceeds to empty the Mafia's bank accounts, giving the proceeds to charity.
98) State of grace
Description
When Terry Noonan returns to Nre York's Hell's Kitchen after a mysterious ten year absence, he immediately rejoins the Irish mob run by Frankie Flannery and soon finds himself torn between loyalty for his Irish cronies and loyalty to a secret that could bring him down.
Author
Series
Godfather series (Mark Winegardner) volume 2
Description
In the final installment of the saga of the Corleone crime family, New Orleans under-boss Carlo Tramonti is deported to Colombia and turns dangerously vengeful, triggering a series of events that change the course of American history.