The Sicilians Deal For I Do

Author : John Dickie
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466893052
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia written by John Dickie and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian-American mafia has its roots in a mysterious and powerful criminal network in Sicily. While the mythology of the mafia has been widely celebrated in American culture, the true origins of its rituals, laws, and methods have never actually been revealed. John Dickie uses startling new research to expose the secrets of the Sicilian mafia, providing a fascinating account that is more violent, frightening, and darkly comic than anything conceived in popular movies and novels. How did the Sicilian mafia begin? How did it achieve its powerful grip in Italy and America? How does it operate today? From the mafia's origins in the 1860s to its current tense relationship with the Berlusconi government, Cosa Nostra takes us to the inner sanctum where few have dared to go before. This is an important work of history and a revelation for anyone who ever wondered what it means to be "made" in the mob.

Author : Mario Puzo
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345480740
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sicilian written by Mario Puzo and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work—a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . . The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Guiliano back with him to America. But Guiliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Guiliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption—and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Guiliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano. Praise for The Sicilian “Puzo is a master storyteller.”—USA Today “The Balzac of the mafia.”—Time “An accomplished and imaginative writer.”—Los Angeles Times

Author : Clare Connelly
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369745086
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sicilian's Deal for "I Do" written by Clare Connelly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re reunited for just a sensational week in this second chance romance by Clare Connelly! A delicious reunion… with his jilted bride! Although Luca Cavallaro’s engagement to Mia Marini is a business merger, their chemistry is undeniable. But when he discovers his future father-in-law has lied about the company’s finances, Luca must walk away—abandoning Mia on her wedding day! Marriage offers Mia distance from her oppressive family, so Luca’s desertion devastates her, especially after their mind-blowing kiss! When she accepts a second convenient proposal, she tells herself she’s relieved there’s no sizzle. Then Luca returns with a scandalous proposition: risk it all to claim the wedding night they never had! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Brooding Billionaire Brothers books: Book 1: The Sicilian's Deal for "I Do" Book 2: Contracted and Claimed by the Boss

Author : Clare Connelly (Romance novelist)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780263310481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sicilian's Deal for 'I Do' written by Clare Connelly (Romance novelist) and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliciously reunited with his jilted bride! When Yana's former stepbrother walks back into her life, his outrageous offer has her playing with fire! Nasir will clear all her debts if she helps look after his daughter for three months. I's a dangerous deal, because innocent Yana has been burnt by their forbidden flames before - and the ruthless billionaire remains her greatest temptation...

Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466861290
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight In Sicily written by Peter Robb and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies the island of Sicily, home to an ancient culture that--with its stark landscapes, glorious coastlines, and extraordinary treasure troves of art and archeology--has seduced travelers for centuries. But at the heart of the island's rare beauty is a network of violence and corruption that reaches into every corner of Sicilian life: Cosa Nostra, the Mafia. Peter Robb lived in southern Italy for over fourteen years and recounts its sensuous pleasures, its literature, politics, art, and crimes.

Author : Penny Jordan
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 142683425X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sicilian's Baby Bargain written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annie has only her baby. But the most precious part of her life is now at risk! Falcon Leopardi has come to claim his late half brother's child—and no one refuses the dark-hearted tycoon! But back in Sicily, family duty wars with justice. Annie and her baby are caught in the midst of a dynastic battle. The magnificent Falcon will protect Annie with the kind of searing passion only the most powerful of Sicilians can bestow…. The women of the sultry island will mourn: Falcon Leopardi is taking a wife!

Author : Ralph Blumenthal
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307815463
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Days of the Sicilians written by Ralph Blumenthal and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 12, 1979: The fearsome Bonanno family boss, Carmine Galante, is gunned down in a gruesome ambush at a Brooklyn restaurant. The hit launches an FBI investigation that soon becomes the largest in the bureau's history, as agents uncover a trail leading to a clandestine arm of the Sicilian Mafia. Evidence points to an all but unknown criminal franchise at work in the U.S. within the strife-torn Cosa Nostra. The mystery deepens. Surveillance photos snapped secretly from FBI vans and lookouts in Queens and Brooklyn show a cast of characters the bureau's mob experts cannot identify. What is in the cartons these Sicilians are loading into the trunks of their Mercedes? Who is trying to spirit $60 million out of the country and why? And where is the mountain of money coming from? The FBI has stumbled across a billion-dollar drug pipeline that is funneling tons of Turkish morphoine base to Sicilian labs and heroin into the United States through pizza parlors, cafes, and boutiques. Where the French Connection ends, the Pizza Connection begins. This is the dramatic inside story of that historic case and the struggle of the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs Service, and New York Police Department to deal the Mafia a crippling blow. The early 1980s are a crucial time for the FBI. It is emerging from the debacles of J. Edgar Hoover's administration, which long refused to acknowledge traditional organized crime, and is about to take on a new assignment policing anti-drug laws alongside the DEA. The exploding case is assigned to an unlikely pair of agents: the intense, Sicilian-born Carmine Russo and the laid-back Charlie Rooney. Together with an expanding army of investigators in the U.S. and abroad, they follow a trail that leads from sidewalk pizzerias and pay phones in Long Island, New Jersey, and rural Illinois, to bank vaults and hideouts in Miami, the Bahamas, Zurich, Palermo, Rio, Madrid, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Thousands of hours of wiretapped conversations and surveillance photos reveal a deadly, shadowy world of coded messages, midnight dropoffs of heroin packed in paper bags and shirt boxes, and vast fortunes laundered through some of America's biggest brokerage firms. But the crimelords Russo and Rooney stalk are not their only nemesis; they must also fend off jealous and impatient bureaucrats, and more than once crooked cops come close to blowing the case.

Author : Clare Connelly
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008935459
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sicilian's Deal For 'I Do' (Brooding Billionaire Brothers, Book 1) (Mills & Boon Modern) written by Clare Connelly and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliciously reunited with his jilted bride!

Author : Joe Giarratano
Publisher : Joe Giarratano
ISBN 13 : 0987174517
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sicilians written by Joe Giarratano and published by Joe Giarratano. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sicilians is crime fiction -- a bracing take on a mafia saga, with a fresh and innovative storyline, and a cracker of a climax. Book one outlines the adventures of a group of Sicilians in the Western Sicilian village-towns of the Belice Valley -- some are members of the Cosa Nostra brotherhood and others are ordinary people whose lives are controlled by them. Each has their own power struggles and agendas. Book two has all the ingredients of a best seller. It can be read stand alone and is where the book shines. It finds the key characters in transit to Sydney, Australia where the action culminates, with the addition of dirty cops, stand-over men and new murderers.

Author : T. J. English
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061795585
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Havana Nocturne written by T. J. English and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere—old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T.J. English offers a multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution & international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana & the event that would overshadow it, the Cuban Revolution. As the Cuban people labored under a violently repressive regime throughout the 50s, Mob leaders Meyer Lansky & Charles "Lucky" Luciano turned their eye to Havana. To them, Cuba was the ultimate dream, the greatest hope for the future of the US Mob in the post-Prohibition years of intensified government crackdowns. But when it came time to make their move, it was Lansky, the brilliant Jewish mobster, who reigned supreme. Having cultivated strong ties with the Cuban government & in particular the brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista, Lansky brought key mobsters to Havana to put his ambitious business plans in motion. Before long, the Mob, with Batista's corrupt government in its pocket, owned the biggest luxury hotels & casinos in Havana, launching an unprecedented tourism boom complete with the most lavish entertainment, the world's biggest celebrities, the most beautiful women & gambling galore. But their dreams collided with those of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara & others who would lead the country's disenfranchised to overthrow their corrupt government & its foreign partners—an epic cultural battle that English captures in all its sexy, decadent, ugly glory. Bringing together long-buried historical information with English's own research in Havana—including interviews with the era's key survivors—Havana Nocturne takes readers back to Cuba in the years when it was a veritable devil's playground for mob leaders. English deftly weaves together the parallel stories of the Havana Mob—featuring notorious criminals such as Santo Trafficante Jr & Albert Anastasia—& Castro's 26th of July Movement in a riveting, up-close look at how the Mob nearly attained its biggest dream in Havana—& how Fidel Castro trumped it all with the revolution.