DescriptionAd executive Marty English has just been handed his dream assignment: create a winning 30-second Super Bowl spot for drug giant Isaac Arrow Pharmaceuticals. Marty has less than 3 weeks to pull off a job that should take months. But with both his company and his career on the line, he has no choice but to succeed. This assignment will be even more difficult than he thought, when his estranged father turns out to be Chicago's Mafia godfather and his new star client becomes his deadliest nemesis.
DescriptionJohnny Boy Counihan was in the wrong place at the wrong time wearing the wrong coat and it cost him his life. The young man walked into the middle of a multimillion dollar holdup at New York's JFK airport wearing a blue police coat he inherited from his father. Now, his father's first partner, Joe Gregory, will stop at nothing to find out who killed Counihan. Uncovering the truth is difficult, though, because there's little evidence, the mob may be involved, and Johnny Boy's Irish girlfriend is acting suspiciously. Gregory and his partner Anthony Ryan find that the mystery of Johnny Boy's murder may be the most difficult and dangerous case of their careers.
DescriptionJohn Archibald Dortmunder, the bumbling comic criminal of The Hot Rock and Good Behavior, wants the treasure that a member of the mob buried before going to jail - a cool $750, 000. The problem? It's under a reservoir. A second problem? A much nastier criminal also wants the loot, and is willing to blow up a dam to get it! Follow the escapades - including a rather unusual use of Mount Rushmore - of Dortmunder and his gang in this installment of Donald Westlake's hilarious, suspenseful series.
DescriptionFrom mob wife with blood on her hands to straight-arrow breadwinner for her four kids, a tale of transformation and empowerment from a woman whose life in organized crime makes Carmella Soprano look like June Cleaver. As a child in Brooklyn, New York…
DescriptionSeldom has the netherworld of the Mafia been revealed with such fascinating detail and sheer suspense. Like the classics of the genre - from The Godfather to The French Connection to Wise Guy - Takedown leads us to the inner ri…
