Author: David Leslie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845967307
Category : Gangsters' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"first published ... in 2009 by Mainstream Publishing Company"--Title page verso.
The Gangster's Wife
Author: David Leslie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845967307
Category : Gangsters' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"first published ... in 2009 by Mainstream Publishing Company"--Title page verso.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845967307
Category : Gangsters' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"first published ... in 2009 by Mainstream Publishing Company"--Title page verso.
The White City
Author: Karolina Ramqvist
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802189873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
An award-winning Scandinavian novel of one woman’s struggle to pull herself and her daughter from the grasp of a criminal past. “A literary tour de force” (Mystery Scene). A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize, The White City is an arresting story of betrayal and empowerment as a criminal’s girlfriend is left behind to pick up the pieces of her imploded existence. Karin knew what she was getting herself into when she fell for John, a high-flying wheeler-dealer. But she never imagined things would turn out like this: John is gone and the coke-filled parties, seemingly endless flow of money, and high social status have been replaced by cut telephone lines, cut heat, and cut cash. All that remains of Karin’s former life is the mansion he bought for her—and his daughter, the child Karin once swore she would never bring into their dangerous world. Now she is on her own with baby Dream. As the authorities zero in on organized crime, John’s shady legacy is catching up with her. Over the course of a few days, Karin is forced to take drastic measures to claim what she considers rightfully hers . . . “The ghostly Scandinavian setting and [protagonist] Karin’s closely narrated sense of impending doom . . . make Swedish star Ramqvist’s English-language debut an atmospheric and suspenseful read.” —Booklist
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802189873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
An award-winning Scandinavian novel of one woman’s struggle to pull herself and her daughter from the grasp of a criminal past. “A literary tour de force” (Mystery Scene). A celebrated bestseller in Sweden, and the winner of the prestigious Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize, The White City is an arresting story of betrayal and empowerment as a criminal’s girlfriend is left behind to pick up the pieces of her imploded existence. Karin knew what she was getting herself into when she fell for John, a high-flying wheeler-dealer. But she never imagined things would turn out like this: John is gone and the coke-filled parties, seemingly endless flow of money, and high social status have been replaced by cut telephone lines, cut heat, and cut cash. All that remains of Karin’s former life is the mansion he bought for her—and his daughter, the child Karin once swore she would never bring into their dangerous world. Now she is on her own with baby Dream. As the authorities zero in on organized crime, John’s shady legacy is catching up with her. Over the course of a few days, Karin is forced to take drastic measures to claim what she considers rightfully hers . . . “The ghostly Scandinavian setting and [protagonist] Karin’s closely narrated sense of impending doom . . . make Swedish star Ramqvist’s English-language debut an atmospheric and suspenseful read.” —Booklist
The Real Gangster's Wife
Author:
Publisher: Pageturner Publishing House
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher: Pageturner Publishing House
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Gangster's Wife
Author: David Leslie
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781845964313
Category : Gangsters' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For four decades, Margaret "Mags" McGraw was a keeper of secrets. Her husband Tam amassed a fortune through leading a safecracking gang before masterminding a spectacular �50 million drugs racket--and the success of both enterprises depended on skill, bravery, and, most of all, luck. Mags was a devotee of tarot cards and fortune-telling, so when Tam and his associates wondered whether luck would be with them, it was to her that they turned. But Mags discovered that the cards gave signs that warned of much more than years in prison cells: they predicted death. She lived not just with the awful knowledge that her friends would perish violently, but her cards also foretold when they would die. Furthermore, she learned that her own husband was also doomed to a fate that was unexpected to everyone but her. Tam died in the arms of the wife he called his "rock," while her secret lover frantically tried to save him. In The Gangster's Wife, Mags reveals her gripping life story, from being a London bus fare collector, through often hilarious days running an ice cream van during the infamous Glasgow ice cream wars, to managing a notorious bar, being an agony aunt to the toughest criminals around, hiding a secret love, and enjoying the companionship of a man who was murdered as the last century drew to a close.
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781845964313
Category : Gangsters' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For four decades, Margaret "Mags" McGraw was a keeper of secrets. Her husband Tam amassed a fortune through leading a safecracking gang before masterminding a spectacular �50 million drugs racket--and the success of both enterprises depended on skill, bravery, and, most of all, luck. Mags was a devotee of tarot cards and fortune-telling, so when Tam and his associates wondered whether luck would be with them, it was to her that they turned. But Mags discovered that the cards gave signs that warned of much more than years in prison cells: they predicted death. She lived not just with the awful knowledge that her friends would perish violently, but her cards also foretold when they would die. Furthermore, she learned that her own husband was also doomed to a fate that was unexpected to everyone but her. Tam died in the arms of the wife he called his "rock," while her secret lover frantically tried to save him. In The Gangster's Wife, Mags reveals her gripping life story, from being a London bus fare collector, through often hilarious days running an ice cream van during the infamous Glasgow ice cream wars, to managing a notorious bar, being an agony aunt to the toughest criminals around, hiding a secret love, and enjoying the companionship of a man who was murdered as the last century drew to a close.
A Gangster's Girl Saga
Author: Chunichi
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781601620248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Ceazia Devereaux, obsessed with the finer things in life, starts her own escort service where she meets Virginia druglord Vegas and enters into a dangerous world of fast money, which she finds hard to escape.
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 9781601620248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Ceazia Devereaux, obsessed with the finer things in life, starts her own escort service where she meets Virginia druglord Vegas and enters into a dangerous world of fast money, which she finds hard to escape.
Al Capone and His American Boys
Author: William J. Helmer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253009692
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler—wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"—set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 years later in FBI files, the manuscript describes the couple's life on the run, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Gus was one of the shooters), and other headline crimes of that period. Prepared for publication by mob expert William J. Helmer, Al Capone and His American Boys is a compelling contemporary account of the heyday of Chicago crime by a woman who found herself married to the mob.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253009692
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler—wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"—set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 years later in FBI files, the manuscript describes the couple's life on the run, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Gus was one of the shooters), and other headline crimes of that period. Prepared for publication by mob expert William J. Helmer, Al Capone and His American Boys is a compelling contemporary account of the heyday of Chicago crime by a woman who found herself married to the mob.
A Gangster and a Gentleman
Author: Kiki Swinson
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758281919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and De'nesha Diamond bring you two irresistible novellas about men so bad, they're everything you don't need--and exactly what you want. . . I Need a Gangsta Kiki Swinson Melody Goldman isn't about to let her rich, cheating, ungrateful husband walk out and leave her with nothing. Fortunately, ex-con Scotty Harris has no problem disposing of her problems in exchange for plenty of cold, hard cash--and hot, hard sexing. But when Scotty crosses one line too many, Melody's revenge will be a hustle he never saw coming . . . Gentlemen Prefer Bullets De'Nesha Diamond Successful publicist Blake Scott survived by playing the Hollywood game. . .and keeping far, far away from her gangsta kingpin father. But now the only person who can protect her is his enforcer, Eli Hardwick. Good thing this thug cleans up real nice--and is even better when he gets down and dirty . . . "Kiki captures the heat of the streets." --Wahida Clark "Diamond's hairpin plot twists, snappy dialogue, sultry sex scenes, and colorful, often hilarious characters keep the pages turning." --Publishers Weekly on Heist
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 0758281919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and De'nesha Diamond bring you two irresistible novellas about men so bad, they're everything you don't need--and exactly what you want. . . I Need a Gangsta Kiki Swinson Melody Goldman isn't about to let her rich, cheating, ungrateful husband walk out and leave her with nothing. Fortunately, ex-con Scotty Harris has no problem disposing of her problems in exchange for plenty of cold, hard cash--and hot, hard sexing. But when Scotty crosses one line too many, Melody's revenge will be a hustle he never saw coming . . . Gentlemen Prefer Bullets De'Nesha Diamond Successful publicist Blake Scott survived by playing the Hollywood game. . .and keeping far, far away from her gangsta kingpin father. But now the only person who can protect her is his enforcer, Eli Hardwick. Good thing this thug cleans up real nice--and is even better when he gets down and dirty . . . "Kiki captures the heat of the streets." --Wahida Clark "Diamond's hairpin plot twists, snappy dialogue, sultry sex scenes, and colorful, often hilarious characters keep the pages turning." --Publishers Weekly on Heist
Gangsters' Wives
Author: Tammy Cohen
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1623655765
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Behind every good man is a good woman. But what lies behind every bad man? Gangsters' Wives tells the side of the story you didn't know--what it's like to live with Britain's most lawless men, from the women who married them. Devoted mum-of-three Judy Marks was imprisoned alongside her husband, notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks; while Flanagan, the first ever Page Three girl, found herself splashed across the papers as the fiancee of legendary East End villain Reggie Kray. Jenny Pinto, wife of gangster Dave Courtney, has given the police keys to their house to stop them breaking down the front door. In ten funny, moving, searingly honest first-person accounts, Gangsters' Wives tells you all you ever wanted to know about the lives and loves of the women who are, quite literally, married to the mob.
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1623655765
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Behind every good man is a good woman. But what lies behind every bad man? Gangsters' Wives tells the side of the story you didn't know--what it's like to live with Britain's most lawless men, from the women who married them. Devoted mum-of-three Judy Marks was imprisoned alongside her husband, notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks; while Flanagan, the first ever Page Three girl, found herself splashed across the papers as the fiancee of legendary East End villain Reggie Kray. Jenny Pinto, wife of gangster Dave Courtney, has given the police keys to their house to stop them breaking down the front door. In ten funny, moving, searingly honest first-person accounts, Gangsters' Wives tells you all you ever wanted to know about the lives and loves of the women who are, quite literally, married to the mob.
The Company She Keeps
Author: Georgia Durante
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451225689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A female Goodfellas—the true story of A supermodel turned getaway driver for the mob. All-American beauty Georgia Durante was one of the most photographed models in the country when she married mobster Joe Lamendola. It plunged her into a world she never dreamed of—and one she feared she’d never survive—as a getaway driver for the Mafia and an eyewitness to unspeakable violence, brutality, and murder, as she came to understand the terrifying risk of being married to the Mob.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451225689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A female Goodfellas—the true story of A supermodel turned getaway driver for the mob. All-American beauty Georgia Durante was one of the most photographed models in the country when she married mobster Joe Lamendola. It plunged her into a world she never dreamed of—and one she feared she’d never survive—as a getaway driver for the Mafia and an eyewitness to unspeakable violence, brutality, and murder, as she came to understand the terrifying risk of being married to the Mob.
Mafia Wife
Author: Lynda Milito
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147973540X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-school dropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood. When they were married two years later, he was not yet a made man in the powerful Gambino crime family. Louie was a hairdresser who dabbled in petty thievery. But Lynda was so happy to be out of her domineering mothers loveless house. And over the years, she was willing to forgive her husband for anything: his violent rages, his frequent absences, his shady associates, and the blood on his hands. For twentyfour years Lynda Milito remained loyal to this charming and dangerous criminal -- her childrens father and close friend of crime boss John Gotti and underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano. But in 1988, Louie Milito disappeared, murdered by the very people he had always trusted to protect him. A crime story, a family story, a love story, Mafia Wife is the shockingly intimate, brutally honest tale of a survivor -- and of the life she lived in the dark bosom of the underworld.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147973540X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-school dropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood. When they were married two years later, he was not yet a made man in the powerful Gambino crime family. Louie was a hairdresser who dabbled in petty thievery. But Lynda was so happy to be out of her domineering mothers loveless house. And over the years, she was willing to forgive her husband for anything: his violent rages, his frequent absences, his shady associates, and the blood on his hands. For twentyfour years Lynda Milito remained loyal to this charming and dangerous criminal -- her childrens father and close friend of crime boss John Gotti and underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano. But in 1988, Louie Milito disappeared, murdered by the very people he had always trusted to protect him. A crime story, a family story, a love story, Mafia Wife is the shockingly intimate, brutally honest tale of a survivor -- and of the life she lived in the dark bosom of the underworld.