gangsters

Describes the life of Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, a once powerful underboss for the Lucchese crime family in New York City since the 1970s until his arrest in 1994, and also covers his time as a government informant.

In the summer of 1946, the newly elected county prosecutor of Hot Springs, Arkansas, hires Earl Swagger, a war veteran disturbed by dark memories of Iwo Jima and of his brutal father, to fight a war against the city's gangsters, led by an Englishman named Owney Maddox, who has a taste for brothels and casinos.

Twelve-year-old Travis and his best friend Freddy head for Las Vegas in order to win enough at blackjack to buy back the house Travis's dad gambled away, but run into more trouble than they can handle when they try to scam a mobster named Johnny Large.

Alternating passages relate the experiences of fifteen-year-old English model Lauren with those of her guardian Nessa and reveal what happened to Lauren's beautiful--but doomed--teenage mother.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries on the gangs and gangsters, from Jesse James to Al Capone and Sonny Barger, that have captivated the public and achieved the status of folk antiheros, covering bank robbers, Mafia members, drug kingpins, Western outlaws, and more.

Han and Chewbacca have to rely on Han's former partner who they are unsure if they can trust in order to avoid being caught between gangsters and the Empire.

When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.

Provides short biographies of some of America's most infamous gangs and gangsters, describing the criminal actions of Jessie James, John Dillinger, John Gotti, Stanley Tookie Williams, and others.

Frank Calabrese Jr. recounts his decision to work with the FBI and the United States Attorney's Office to put his father, one of the most violent Chicago mobsters, in prison.

Tsuna, an awkward junior high student who is not good at academics or sports, meets Reborn, a gun-weilding toddler assassin whose mission is to turn Tsuna into a mafia boss, while the beautiful Bianchi tries to seduce Reborn.