Author: Alfred Fortino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780759609143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
God's Mafia
Author: Alfred Fortino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780759609143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780759609143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Cornbread Mafia
Author: James Higdon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493038508
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration—takes readers back to the 1970s and ’80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493038508
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration—takes readers back to the 1970s and ’80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.
God's Mafia
Author: Alfred Fortino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A compelling, tighly plotted courtroom drama. Two attorneys on opposite sides of an intriguing extortion case court a minister's daughter. When the minister and his friend, a catholic priest, are arrested for racketeering, romance gets in the way of litigation, and the case captures the imagination of the entire country.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A compelling, tighly plotted courtroom drama. Two attorneys on opposite sides of an intriguing extortion case court a minister's daughter. When the minister and his friend, a catholic priest, are arrested for racketeering, romance gets in the way of litigation, and the case captures the imagination of the entire country.
To God from the Mafia
Author: Richard Sotelo Berlanga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781432782733
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
My name is Richard Sotelo Berlanga, I was born in King City, California in 1946. At the age of 30, I was second in command of one of California's largest crime families. The Sotelo/Berlanga crime family controlled over 70 % of all the heroin and cocaine that was being distributed in Northern California and Nevada. My first cousin, Simon C Sotelo was the head of the family. He grew so fast in such a short time that he had to hire family members to help in the distributing of these illegal drugs. At the age of 33 I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and left the family business. Eight months after receiving Christ as my Savior He gave me a vision of a Catastrophe that is about to come upon the Whole World. In this book I tell how I went from a Mafia Boss to a follower of Jesus Christ and the vision He gave me to share with all the believers. THIS IS MY STORY!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781432782733
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
My name is Richard Sotelo Berlanga, I was born in King City, California in 1946. At the age of 30, I was second in command of one of California's largest crime families. The Sotelo/Berlanga crime family controlled over 70 % of all the heroin and cocaine that was being distributed in Northern California and Nevada. My first cousin, Simon C Sotelo was the head of the family. He grew so fast in such a short time that he had to hire family members to help in the distributing of these illegal drugs. At the age of 33 I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and left the family business. Eight months after receiving Christ as my Savior He gave me a vision of a Catastrophe that is about to come upon the Whole World. In this book I tell how I went from a Mafia Boss to a follower of Jesus Christ and the vision He gave me to share with all the believers. THIS IS MY STORY!
God's Bankers
Author: Gerald Posner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439109869
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican—the world’s biggest, most powerful religious institution—from an acclaimed journalist with “exhaustive research techniques” (The New York Times). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in “a meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy” (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church’s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Told through 200 years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the Popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the world’s most influential organizations. God’s Bankers has it all: a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that clarify not only the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. And Posner even looks to the future to surmise if Pope Francis can succeed where all his predecessors failed: to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and to rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. “As exciting as a mystery thriller” (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439109869
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican—the world’s biggest, most powerful religious institution—from an acclaimed journalist with “exhaustive research techniques” (The New York Times). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in “a meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy” (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church’s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Told through 200 years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the Popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the world’s most influential organizations. God’s Bankers has it all: a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that clarify not only the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. And Posner even looks to the future to surmise if Pope Francis can succeed where all his predecessors failed: to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and to rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. “As exciting as a mystery thriller” (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power.
Bad Blood
Author: Catherine Wiltcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
From Cora Kenborn and Catherine Wiltcher comes Corrupt Gods, a brand new arranged marriage mafia duet. A Santiago is a lesson in ruin. A Carrera bleeds for revenge. Thalia Santiago is the daughter of my enemy. A beautiful rebel with a single cause. Impulsive. Fearless. And ripe for her father's undoing. I recognized her the moment she stepped into my casino. I watched her start the fires that burned her pretty fingers, and then I poured gasoline on the flames. Now she's in my debt, and her dues are a shiny gold ring and a vow of deception. I'll bend her. I'll break her. I'll turn our mockery of a marriage into a battlefield. And that river of bad blood that flows between our two families? I'll make it an ocean of hate. *This is book 1 of a new dark romance duet. Tainted Blood, book 2, releases June 9th. **Bad Blood is set in the Santiago and Carrera worlds, but it is not necessary to have read either trilogy beforehand.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
From Cora Kenborn and Catherine Wiltcher comes Corrupt Gods, a brand new arranged marriage mafia duet. A Santiago is a lesson in ruin. A Carrera bleeds for revenge. Thalia Santiago is the daughter of my enemy. A beautiful rebel with a single cause. Impulsive. Fearless. And ripe for her father's undoing. I recognized her the moment she stepped into my casino. I watched her start the fires that burned her pretty fingers, and then I poured gasoline on the flames. Now she's in my debt, and her dues are a shiny gold ring and a vow of deception. I'll bend her. I'll break her. I'll turn our mockery of a marriage into a battlefield. And that river of bad blood that flows between our two families? I'll make it an ocean of hate. *This is book 1 of a new dark romance duet. Tainted Blood, book 2, releases June 9th. **Bad Blood is set in the Santiago and Carrera worlds, but it is not necessary to have read either trilogy beforehand.
From Being a Mafia Widow to God's Child
Author: Robin Colombo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
You've heard the tales on the news, HBO has done a documentary of the McDonalds Monopoly scandal called McMillion$ and they plan on making a major motion picture about it. Now, you can read Robin Colombo's firsthand account of the whole Monopoly scam that her husband, Gennaro Colombo, along with herself, were the 2 main recruiters in. As well as her life being married to the mafia, Robin has also struggles with bipolar disorder, survived widowhood, been to prison multiple times, and attempted suicide on more than one occasion. She puts everything out there, not holding anything back. When you finish reading, you will realize that only God could have brought her through all of these heart wrenching tales intact to who she is today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
You've heard the tales on the news, HBO has done a documentary of the McDonalds Monopoly scandal called McMillion$ and they plan on making a major motion picture about it. Now, you can read Robin Colombo's firsthand account of the whole Monopoly scam that her husband, Gennaro Colombo, along with herself, were the 2 main recruiters in. As well as her life being married to the mafia, Robin has also struggles with bipolar disorder, survived widowhood, been to prison multiple times, and attempted suicide on more than one occasion. She puts everything out there, not holding anything back. When you finish reading, you will realize that only God could have brought her through all of these heart wrenching tales intact to who she is today.
The God Who Intervenes
Author: Keith Tucci
Publisher: Certa Publishing
ISBN: 1953576044
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Do you need God to Intervene in your life? Keith Tucci peels back his life and reveals how you can seek and find the intervention of God in tough times and in unsettling circumstances. Have you been there? Pastor Keith has, and invites you to discover how our Lord thrusts Himself into your circumstances, and will give divine insight into the breakthrough that you need. • Impossible becomes possible. • Crash becomes recovery. • Broken is repaired better than new. • Your tough circumstances are no match for the God who intervenes. From the streets of Pittsburgh, to influencing Christians and non-Christians around the world, Pastor Keith has experienced the intervention of God – and everything changed. And so can your situation! Dig in and discover how to position yourself for a God intervention that will change everything!
Publisher: Certa Publishing
ISBN: 1953576044
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Do you need God to Intervene in your life? Keith Tucci peels back his life and reveals how you can seek and find the intervention of God in tough times and in unsettling circumstances. Have you been there? Pastor Keith has, and invites you to discover how our Lord thrusts Himself into your circumstances, and will give divine insight into the breakthrough that you need. • Impossible becomes possible. • Crash becomes recovery. • Broken is repaired better than new. • Your tough circumstances are no match for the God who intervenes. From the streets of Pittsburgh, to influencing Christians and non-Christians around the world, Pastor Keith has experienced the intervention of God – and everything changed. And so can your situation! Dig in and discover how to position yourself for a God intervention that will change everything!
This Thing of Ours
Author: Cammy Franzese
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595553657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The poignant story of a young woman married to a powerful mobster. Small-town girl Cammy Franzese didn't plan to marry one of the most powerful mob bosses in the country. She didn't expect to raise her children alone while Michael served hard time. And she certainly didn't anticipate what would happen when he finally made the stunning decision to turn his back on "the life" and become a devout Christian. Now Cammy shares the details of her painful and joyful journey, including: How, as a Christian, she met and married Michael when he was an unbeliever and a high-profile mobster The high life she lived in their first year of marriage when she had more money than she knew what to do with What it was like being under law-enforcement scrutiny, dealing with death threats, harassment from the FBI, and having to move several times to protect their family How she stayed faithful to Michael and raised their children on her own while he was locked up for eight years Readers will learn why Cammy stayed in a marriage loaded with so much heartache and struggle. With painful honesty, she speaks about restoration, miracles, and the confidence we can have knowing God prepares us for the challenges and obstacles we will one day have to face.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 1595553657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The poignant story of a young woman married to a powerful mobster. Small-town girl Cammy Franzese didn't plan to marry one of the most powerful mob bosses in the country. She didn't expect to raise her children alone while Michael served hard time. And she certainly didn't anticipate what would happen when he finally made the stunning decision to turn his back on "the life" and become a devout Christian. Now Cammy shares the details of her painful and joyful journey, including: How, as a Christian, she met and married Michael when he was an unbeliever and a high-profile mobster The high life she lived in their first year of marriage when she had more money than she knew what to do with What it was like being under law-enforcement scrutiny, dealing with death threats, harassment from the FBI, and having to move several times to protect their family How she stayed faithful to Michael and raised their children on her own while he was locked up for eight years Readers will learn why Cammy stayed in a marriage loaded with so much heartache and struggle. With painful honesty, she speaks about restoration, miracles, and the confidence we can have knowing God prepares us for the challenges and obstacles we will one day have to face.
In God's Name
Author: David Yallop
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 147210515X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Only thirty-three days after his election, Pope John Paul I,Albino Luciani, died in strange circumstances. Almost immediately rumours of a cover-up began to circulate around the Vatican. In his researches David Yallop uncovered an extraordinary story: behind the Pope's death lay a dark and complex web of corruption within the Church that involved the Freemasons, Opus Dei and the Mafia and the murder of the 'Pope's Banker' Roberto Calvi. When first published in 1984 In God's Name was denounced by the Vatican yet became an award-winning international bestseller. In this new edition, Yallop brings the story up to date and reveals new evidence that has been long buried concerning the truth behind the Vatican cover-up. This is a classic work of investigative writing whose revelations will continue to reverberate around the world.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 147210515X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Only thirty-three days after his election, Pope John Paul I,Albino Luciani, died in strange circumstances. Almost immediately rumours of a cover-up began to circulate around the Vatican. In his researches David Yallop uncovered an extraordinary story: behind the Pope's death lay a dark and complex web of corruption within the Church that involved the Freemasons, Opus Dei and the Mafia and the murder of the 'Pope's Banker' Roberto Calvi. When first published in 1984 In God's Name was denounced by the Vatican yet became an award-winning international bestseller. In this new edition, Yallop brings the story up to date and reveals new evidence that has been long buried concerning the truth behind the Vatican cover-up. This is a classic work of investigative writing whose revelations will continue to reverberate around the world.