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A tour-de-force novel of suspense by the Edgar-winning author of The Butcher's Boy. He came to England to rest. He used to be the Butcher's Boy, the highly skilled mob hit man. Now, after a decade, they've found him. The Butcher's Boy escapes back to the States with more reasons to kill. Until the odds turn terrifyingly against him.

For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...

A bodyguard goes after the sadistic thug who beat his friend, only to find that the object of his wrath is the son of a powerful mob boss.

A man decides to gamble a large sum of money to raise an even bigger sum--he wants to bring the world's biggest band, U2, to Mexico to play a concert. Un promotor de recitales hace una apuesta con el capo mafioso para recaudar dinero para llevar al super estelar conjunto U2 a su ciudad de Monterrey, y la pierde. Ahora tiene solo siete das para pagar su deuda, pero a medida que se acerca el plazo, debe enfrentarse a una competencia implacable y a...

The Accident Man, is back and this time he must beat the top assassins in the world, to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save the life of his only friend and rekindle his relationship with his maniacal father figure.

I hate Dante Moretti. He is cold, calculating and vicious. It's no secret that he wiped out his former fiancée and her entire family on the eve of their wedding. He's the kind of evil that makes even devils cry. But that's not why I hate him. I hate him because he has taken the only thing I have left in this miserable world - my freedom. He has chained me to him because of a debt that I don't owe. I just have the misfortune to share the bloodline...

Mormon Missionaries begin teaching two birdbrained members of the mafia who think the Elders are messengers from "The Boss" with a hidden message on the next hit.

"He vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again after a case gone disastrously wrong. But today Eddie doesn't have a choice. Because this time, it's personal. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's beloved ten-year-old daughter. Now Eddie has exactly forty-eight hours to draw upon his razor-sharp instincts and use every con, bluff, grift, and trick in the book to defend an impossible trial and save...

"Claudio es un promotor musical que vive con la frustración de saber que podría haber hecho algo más con su vida. Un buen día, Claudio decide levanter su carrera, trayendo nada más y nada menos que a la gran banda irlandesa U2. Tras un encuentro desafortunado en un casino con Tony, un pistolero regiomontano, el gran negocio de Claudio de llevar esta banda a Monterrey se convierte en el único pase para salvar su vida y la de su novia Gloria en...

Joe Sullivan has taken the rap for Rick who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.