organized crime

In 1953 Havana, tough war veteran Earl Swagger is conned into being the CIA's pawn, sent to assassinate the threatening young revolutionary Castro, while a Russian veteran of the same grit is sent to protect Swagger's target.

Eddie Dunne, banished from the NYPD and retired from his job with the Russian mob, enjoys a relaxing life playing the ponies and baby-sitting his six-year-old grandchild, but when his thirty-five-year-old daughter is kidnapped, he must risk everything to get her back.

British agent Charlie Muffin goes undercover as an arms trader in order to infiltrate the leading Russian mafia families and find out who has pulled off a major heist of weapons-grade nuclear material.

An account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs.

Chronicles the life and criminal career of Whitey Bulger, who, after being raised in Boston, rose through the ranks of organized crime and became one of America's most wanted fugitives.

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

Drug trafficking in Mexico is a multibillion-dollar industry. In a country where the powerful are rarely scutinized, Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado did not shrink on reporting government corruption. One night he received a tip about an impending murder--his. He had twenty-four hours to find out if the tip was authentic and to save his own life.

A fact-based novel in which writer Sherwood Anderson arrives in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1934 in search of a story on the area's moonshiners and becomes caught up in the investigating the link between an attack on restaurant owner Forrest Bondurant that left him with his throat slashed, the arrival at the same hospital where Bondurant is recovering of two additional brutalized victims, and a rumored cache of bootlegging money.

Upon witnessing his famous spy-novelist father's murder just seven months after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Furious, now an orphan, seeks clues in his father's latest novel to stop the murderer before he or she strikes again.