mafia

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The godfather

1981
The Corleone family nearly falls from power in America, but the organized crime family prevails and power passes from father to son.

California fire and life

1999
Arson investigator Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is drawn deeper and deeper into an increasingly dangerous situation when he sets out to discover the truth about a fire that killed the young wife of real estate mogul Nicky Vale.

Cosa Nostra

a history of the Sicilian Mafia
2005

The honored society

the secret history of Italy's most powerful Mafia
2013
In The Honored Society award-winning investigative reporter Petra Reski reveals the Mafia menace lurking throughout the world? from espresso bars in Palermo to European halls of parliament to the corporate headquarters of enormous agricultural firms. In haunting and exquisite prose she explores the Byzantine structure of the 'Ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra and other mafia clans throughout Italy ? the code they live by, the destruction they wreak, how they operate within the country and how they operate internationally.

The godfather's revenge

2007
Even though he is determined to kill former capo Nick Geraci and questions begin to surface regarding the mob's involvement in the assassination of President Jimmy Shea, Michael Corleone tries to legitimize his family name.

El padrino

2002
Mafia leader Vito Corleone uses his power to influence all aspects of his Long Island society and will stop at nothing to see that his twisted vision of justice is carried out.

The godfather

1997
Vito Corleone immigrates from Sicily to the United States and founds a Mafia dynasty. Forty years later, his son, Michael, tries to escape his family's criminal legacy while maintaining the famiy honor.

Omerta

2001
Don Raymonde Aprile, retired after a long career of organized crime, is assassinated by a pair of hit men who believe there is no one left to seek revenge, but they did not count on the Don's adopted "nephew" from Sicily, a child raised unlike Aprile's own three children to take over the crime family.

Dutch

the first of a trilogy
2009
Bernard James, Jr., also known as Dutch, takes a stolen heroin business and turns it into the East Coast's most feared drug empire, but his underhanded business deals attract all kinds of enemies and lead to a shocking betrayal that will put everything Dutch cares about at risk.

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