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Author
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...
2) Dogville
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they cant́ rest for long -- and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves. This time, however, they have targeted the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all. Magi political elections are imminent,...
6) Skidoo
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A former hired killer takes on a job that involves getting arrested and killing a gangster inside the prison.
7) Ashes
Author
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tanaka is a yakuza standing on the edge of a big family transition. With the mob boss in the hospital dying of old age (a rare thing in his line of work), Tanaka fortifies his branch of the organization with more men and strong business ventures in prostitution and drug trafficking. As everyone waits for a change in command, his branch gains respect and importance through a mob war and shrewd business transactions. Tanaka must choose between ruling...
9) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
10) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
11) John Wick
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ex-hitman seeks revenge on the gangsters who destroyed his life.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the mob. When a high-stakes, mob-protected card game is heisted by some small-time crooks, Cogan is called in to track them down and restore order to the local criminal economy.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An orphanś life is harsh -- and often short -- in the island city of Camorr, built on the ruins of a mysterious alien race. But born with a quick wit and a gift for thieving, Locke Lamora has dodged both death and slavery, only to fall into the hands of an eyeless priest known as Chains -- a man who is neither blind nor a priest. A con artist of extraordinary talent, Chains passes his skills on to his carefully selected "family" of orphans -- a group...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 for a shilling a time. The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been...
Author
Series
Loose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
468, 7 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The worlds of business, politics and crime collide when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night -- one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That's the official version of events. But when a family member, Gina Rafferty, starts asking questions, this notion quickly unravels. Devastated by her loss, Gina's grief is tempered, and increasingly fueled, by anger -- because...
18) Find me guilty
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
I learned early that if you don’t want to go to school for a career . . . then this was the life. And there were rules. You better not drink, you better not be a big shot and you better always stay low and keep your mouth shut. If you’re going to play the game, you’ve got to play smart. Thus began Mario Facione’s slow descent into the Mafia world. With a desire to please his father, Facione kept the rules taught him -- don’t get caught,...
20) The Equalizer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice...
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