Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN: 140124159X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Michael O'Sullivan is a deeply religious family man who works as the chief enforcer for an Irish mob family. But after O'Sullivan's eldest son witnesses one of his father's hits, the godfather orders the death of his entire family. Barely surviving an encounter that takes his wife and youngest son, O'Sullivan and his only remaining child embark on a dark and violent mission of retribution against his former boss. Featuring accurate portrayals of Al Capone, Frank Nitti, and Eliot Ness, this book offers a poignant look at the relationship between a morally conflicted father and his adolescent son who both fears and worships him.
Road to Perdition (New Edition)
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN: 140124159X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Michael O'Sullivan is a deeply religious family man who works as the chief enforcer for an Irish mob family. But after O'Sullivan's eldest son witnesses one of his father's hits, the godfather orders the death of his entire family. Barely surviving an encounter that takes his wife and youngest son, O'Sullivan and his only remaining child embark on a dark and violent mission of retribution against his former boss. Featuring accurate portrayals of Al Capone, Frank Nitti, and Eliot Ness, this book offers a poignant look at the relationship between a morally conflicted father and his adolescent son who both fears and worships him.
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN: 140124159X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Michael O'Sullivan is a deeply religious family man who works as the chief enforcer for an Irish mob family. But after O'Sullivan's eldest son witnesses one of his father's hits, the godfather orders the death of his entire family. Barely surviving an encounter that takes his wife and youngest son, O'Sullivan and his only remaining child embark on a dark and violent mission of retribution against his former boss. Featuring accurate portrayals of Al Capone, Frank Nitti, and Eliot Ness, this book offers a poignant look at the relationship between a morally conflicted father and his adolescent son who both fears and worships him.
Road to Perdition
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Onyx
ISBN: 9780451410290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In Depression-era Chicago, the city's most notorious hitman is stunned to discover that the mob intends to kill his own young son.
Publisher: Onyx
ISBN: 9780451410290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In Depression-era Chicago, the city's most notorious hitman is stunned to discover that the mob intends to kill his own young son.
On the Road to Perdition: Oasis
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401200688
Category : Bank robberies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401200688
Category : Bank robberies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Oasis
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840236897
Category : Gangsters
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Michael O'Sullivan and his son, Michael Jr, seek revenge for the death of Michael's wife and younger son, by robbing banks and disrupting the cash that fuels organised crime. But when Michael Jr contracts a life-threatening illness, the duo are forced to seek refuge.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781840236897
Category : Gangsters
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Michael O'Sullivan and his son, Michael Jr, seek revenge for the death of Michael's wife and younger son, by robbing banks and disrupting the cash that fuels organised crime. But when Michael Jr contracts a life-threatening illness, the duo are forced to seek refuge.
On the Road to Perdition: Oasis
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401200688
Category : Bank robberies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401200688
Category : Bank robberies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Snake Eyes
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416525416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds of rounds fired on the casino floor. Called to an out-of-control crime scene -- located outside Las Vegas in the legendary town of Boot Hill -- forensic investigators Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle quickly discover that the two casino shootout victims were no innocent bystanders: one was the powerful leader of the Predator gang, and the other a luckless card dealer who may have borne witness to an elaborately staged execution. Meanwhile, back in the glitter of Sin City, CSIs Warrick Brown and Greg Sanders have their own hands full, as the dark side of this desert metropolis is about to wreak havoc on the two investigators via a seemingly endless series of crimes. . . .
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416525416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds of rounds fired on the casino floor. Called to an out-of-control crime scene -- located outside Las Vegas in the legendary town of Boot Hill -- forensic investigators Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle quickly discover that the two casino shootout victims were no innocent bystanders: one was the powerful leader of the Predator gang, and the other a luckless card dealer who may have borne witness to an elaborately staged execution. Meanwhile, back in the glitter of Sin City, CSIs Warrick Brown and Greg Sanders have their own hands full, as the dark side of this desert metropolis is about to wreak havoc on the two investigators via a seemingly endless series of crimes. . . .
NYPD Blue
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582416840
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Based on the TV series NYPD Blue, this story takes readers to the very beginning of the partnership between Detectives Andy Sipowtiz and John Kelly of Manhattan's 15th Precinct.
Publisher: Longman
ISBN: 9780582416840
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Based on the TV series NYPD Blue, this story takes readers to the very beginning of the partnership between Detectives Andy Sipowtiz and John Kelly of Manhattan's 15th Precinct.
The Legend of Caleb York
Author: Mickey Spillane
Publisher:
ISBN: 1617735949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
When a corrupt sheriff tries to take his daughter as his bride and force him to sell his ranch, George Cullen, refusing to go down without a fight, hires the west's toughest gunslinger to destroy his enemy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1617735949
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
When a corrupt sheriff tries to take his daughter as his bride and force him to sell his ranch, George Cullen, refusing to go down without a fight, hires the west's toughest gunslinger to destroy his enemy.
Satan's Playground
Author: Paul J Vanderwood
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082239166X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082239166X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.
A Child's Night Dream
Author: Oliver Stone
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312194463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
American anti-hero Oliver Stone joins the literary canon with this bold tale of an alienated youth who takes to the road on an odyssey to hell.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312194463
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
American anti-hero Oliver Stone joins the literary canon with this bold tale of an alienated youth who takes to the road on an odyssey to hell.