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The Ice man

confessions of a mafia contract killer
2009
A biography of Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski, who killed over 200 men over forty years, while leading a double life as a devoted family man. Follows his life from childhood, through marriage, and his involvement with the mob.

The good rat

a true story
Explores the people and locations that make up and define the mafia and features numerous stories about the mafia and how it works throughout.

Artemis Fowl, the Arctic incident

the graphic novel
2009
When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue where he finds an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.

Artemis Fowl

the Arctic incident
2003
When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue, where he finds an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.

Blow

how a small-town boy made $100 million with the Medell?n cocaine cartel and lost it all

Trust me, I'm lying

2015
Having learned to be a master con artist from her father, Julep Dupree pays expenses at her exclusive high school by fixing things for fellow students, but she will need their help when her father disappears.

The Lufthansa heist

behind the six-million-dollar cash haul that shook the world
The inside story of the largest unrecovered cash haul in world history--the sensational Lufthansa robbery at Kennedy Airport--told by Henry Hill, the organizer. The heist was memorialized in the movie, Goodfellas. Henry Hill died in 2012, well before the book's publication in 2015. As the infamous heist continues to dominate national news with recent charges brought against five reputed gangsters who have hazy connections to the robbery, Henry Hill has the final say.

Hold me like a breath

2015
Penny Landlow, seventeen, the overprotected daughter of a powerful crime family, has rarely left the family estate due to a blood disorder but when tragedy strikes and she is left alone in New York City, she must prove she is not as fragile as everyone believes.

Illusive

2015
"After a vaccine accidentally creates superpowers in a small percentage of the population, seventeen-year-old Ciere, an illusionist, teams up with a group of fellow high-class, super-powered thieves to steal the vaccine's formula while staying one step ahead of mobsters and deadly government agents"--Provided by publisher.

Blow

how a smalltown boy made $100 million with the Medell?in cocaine cartel and lost it all
1993

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