His father had warned Howie, "You can't ride two horses with one ass." But here he was, living a double life-one racketeering with his crew and the other sitting in cafés reading Penguin Classics. To fit in, Howie hides his intellectual interests from his gangster friends, but they still suspect something is not right about him. The real problem is that someone has been bad-mouthing Howie to Vinnie Five-Five, his captain. Howie thinks he could...

"A surefire plan that will end his marital and money problems in one swoop ... what could go wrong? Lenny Ovitz has plenty of secrets, and his wife, Paulina, has become a liability. His life would be so much better without her in it. It's the mid-'60s in Toronto, and Lenny works for a ruthless gangster whose travel agency is a front for a collections racket in the Kensington Market area. Lenny's days are spent with his partner, Gabe, terrorizing the...

From the day he was born, Treacherous Freeman was never given a fair chance. He was raised by his father, a notorious gangster who deprived Treacherous of a normal childhood. Instead, he gave Treacherous an education in life on the streets of Virginia. Teflon Jackson is a beautiful woman who is the result of a horrible union. With a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a father, Teflon's childhood was far from a fairy-tale. Treacherous and Teflon...

It's Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it's all over, a lot of people are going to wind up dead.

Emma and Granny Apples hit the road for Las Vegas to help out Dolly, a former showgirl who is being haunted by a dead Vegas hood named Lenny. Lenny is concerned that an aging mobster named Nemo is coming after Dolly. But when Nemo winds up dead and Dolly goes missing, Emma and Granny find themselves investigating a casino heist gone bad, a stash of hidden loot, and a missing wiseguy who's not letting death stand between him and setting things straight....

Learning that one of the four Kingly Hallows of Ireland is in Chicago, private investigator Mick Oberon works to prevent the legendary spear from falling into the wrong hands, including factions of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.

"Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he's been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around drugs, gambling, a gang of stuffed-animal thugs, and notorious crime boss Nicholas Dove. But the past isn't as far away as Eric had hoped. Rumors are swirling that Dove is on the Death List and that he wants Eric to save him. If Eric fails to act, his beloved wife, Emma Rabbit, will be torn apart, limb by...

"From Anthony Pellicano--'Hollywood Fixer'--comes his first work of not-so-fictional fiction. Best friends Paulie and Vincent grew up without fathers on Chicago's west side. Paulie learned how to be a man from TV cop shows, while Vincent's role models were the wise guys who hung out on street corners. As men, Paulie joins the FBI with hopes to escape his past, while Vincent becomes a private investigator who works for the 'family' business. When their...

Zaczęło się jak w przypadku każdej wielkiej miłości. Zakochani w sobie bez pamięci pobrali się i przez jakiś czas świata poza sobą nie widzieli. Jednak po kilku wspólnych latach, kiedy w życie wkradła się rutyna, okazało się, że Zuzanna i Kacper nie są w stanie na siebie patrzeć i mają się serdecznie dość. Jedno i drugie powoli dochodzi do momentu, w którym ma ochotę powiedzieć "chcę rozwodu". Kiedy jednak udaje się już...