organized crime

Eighteen-year-old Vince Luca, son of mob boss Anthony Luca, goes away to college in southern California hoping to escape his past, but soon his brother and a series of "uncles" appear at his dorm, and before long he is caught up in criminal activity once again.

Journalist Dan Slater takes readers through the heart of the Mexican drug trade, and the two teens that were turned into pawns for the cartels.

A young boy's desperate search for his father leads him to discover secrets of his past that might very well threaten his life.

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangrous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.

No more games--the Mafia wants Jason and his team dead, and it wants them dead yesterday. Jason and the others can see only one way out: to fake their deaths and flee the country. Is this the end of Jason's story? Will this be the end of his life?.

The team's fragile truce with the Mafia has been shattered, and they are in big trouble. They've been left with an ultimatum: pay their debts in cash, or in blood. Naturally, Jason would rather pay cash. With the discovery of an underground fighting ring that may not be as fortuitous as it initially appears, it offers an opportunity to raise money quickly.

The Mafia's first mistake was not making sure Jason Jorgensen was dead. Now the CPC is engaged in a covert war against the Mafia's operations--while slowly, Jason and his team of con artists are whittling away at their senior members.

In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.

In 1919 Boston, best friends Corinne and Ada perform illegally as illusionists in an infamous gangster's nightclub, using their "afflicted" blood to con Boston's elite, until the law closes in.

When new legislation threatens to destoy her family's operations in the black-market organ trade, Maggie finds herself falling in love with Alex, a computer whiz who makes a shocking revelation.