Organisiertes Verbrechen

Noviembre de 1963.Se le acabó la suerte a Frank Guidry. A la sombra del prominente capo de la mafia, Carlos Marcello, la combinación de encanto, inteligencia y astucia de Guidry lo lleva los primeros puestos del negocio. Pero todo cambia repentinamente cuando una horrible tragedia golpea al mundo: John F. Kennedy es asesinado a tiros en la plaza Dealey. Guidry había estado en Dallas menos de dos semanas antes, cumpliendo una tarea para Carlos, y no puede evadir la creciente sospecha de que está involucrado en el asesinato más escandaloso de la historia. Ahora su vida está en riesgo, y Carlos cuenta con que Guidry será el chivo expiatorio. Es hora de que este utilice todas las conexiones que ha logrado y todos los favores que le deben, huya del país y mantenga un perfil bajo... porque su vida pende de un hilo.Charlotte tiene veintiocho años y es madre de dos niñas. Su esposo es amable, pero es un borracho perdido. Ella ha estado durante años tratando desesperadamente de sobrevivir y de proteger a sus hijas, pero el asesinato del presidente ha puesto de manifiesto una sola cosa: que su vida en Oklahoma no tiene futuro. La única opción de Charlotte es llevarse a sus hijas y marcharse.Guidry se encuentra con la bella ama de casa de Oklahoma, sentada a un lado de la carretera con nada más que un auto roto, dos pequeñas y un perro en el asiento trasero, y se da cuenta de que ha encontrado el disfraz perfecto para escapar.Lo último que Guidry espera en un momento como este es acabar metido en un viaje por Estados Unidos con una madre y dos niñas, pero Charlotte y él están en el punto en que necesitan y pueden ayudarse mutuamente. Y a medida que la persecución tras Guidry se vuelve más peligrosa, las cuatro vidas resultan estar en riesgo. ¿Encontrarán la senda a la libertad, o los sentimientos mutuos cada vez mayores que Charlotte y Guidry están alimentando serán su perdición?

'Mitreißend und beeindruckend' Dorothy L. SayersEngland 1931, ein verschneites Landhaus am Weihnachtsabend, eine zerstrittene Familie, ein Mord. Wer tötete Adrian Gray? Ein psychologischer Kriminalroman in der Tradition von Agatha Christie. Im Original 1933 erschienen und nun erstmals auf Deutsch.Jedes Jahr im Dezember lädt das ebenso greise wie geizige Familienoberhaupt Adrian Gray die gesamte Verwandtschaft samt Anhang in sein abgelegenes Landhaus King's Polar ein. Und alle kommen, weil sie auf sein Geld aus sind, obwohl fast jeder einen Grund hat, ihn zu hassen. An Heiligabend versammelt sich die Familie wie gewohnt, nur dass am nächsten Morgen Gray ermordet aufgefunden wird. Hat sich eines seiner sechs Kinder seinen Weihnachtswunsch selbst erfüllt? Dieser nostalgische und ungewöhnliche Kriminalroman erzählt die Geschichte einer dunklen Weihnachtsnacht.

In this Gen X coming-of-age crime novel a restaurateur's life spins out of control when his dying uncle, a Milwaukee crime lord, gives him a choice of taking over the family or face certain death at the hands of a rival. This genre-defying novel is laced with humor, heart, and 1980s nostalgia.<BR>"Riveting and hard to put down...mixes many facets but does so with a bartender's attention to the perfect drink of action, surprise, evolution, and revised life connections. It's highly recommended reading for crime story fans who like their tales both literary and thought-provoking"-D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review<BR>Haunted by the murder of his fiancée, Chance McQueen-once a musician on the cusp of success but now a restaurateur-knows alcohol and toxic relationships are choices slowly killing his soul. Trying to balance the scales between guilt and redemption, Chance takes under his wing a fatherless teen and mentors him through the dramatic stutter steps of budding adulthood.Awkward, sweet, and soulful, 19-year-old Winnie is suspended in the inertia of waiting for life to begin. Navigating first love, parental loss, and trying to find purpose, Winnie knows he needs to grow up-while Chance is figuring out, he's not quite grown up enough.But when Chance's dying uncle taps him to run his crime family, everyone Chance cares about will be put in harm's way. Chance must use all of his street smarts and call upon Winnie's naïve courage to navigate this criminal empire built on murder.<BR>Brilliantly evocative of life at the tail end of the 80s, Falling onto Cotton blends the teenage angst of Pretty in Pink with the grit of The Departed. It is a razor-sharp, richly atmospheric and deeply moving portrait of a boy becoming a man, a man finding his code, and the dark underbelly of organized crime that surrounds them both.

"From what I gather he doesn't even lock the doors half the time. He owns nothing overly expensive and there's nothing that he really cares about." "The guy's got nothing?" Juniper asked incredulously. After all the people he had met during his time with the company, he found it hard to believe that there was someone who didn't obsess about at least one thing. He'd even noticed that most of his colleagues were obvious about what they held as their prized possessions." "There's always something," Tag corrected him. One of the things that had been ingrained in his mind during his fourteen years with the company was that there was always something; no matter who the person, no matter what the situation." The Isthmus Company can, at best, be described as an unscrupulous loan agency. At worst, it's described as a front for organized crime. When a debt to the Isthmus Company goes unpaid, Tag Jones and Tryp Marxon are sent to collect collateral--a possession that a person values so much that its disappearance might instill the motivation to pay back their debt. But what happens when they encounter a man whose only valuable possession is his daughter?

Internet gambling and the expansion of casinos beyond the Nevada State Line have put a financial strain on racetracks. Johnny Luck, Hong Mian triad big shot, and his beautiful blonde ex-jockey protege, Jesse James, are always on the lookout for ways to expand the triad’s gambling operation. Back in the fifties and sixties, Jai Alai was a big deal in Florida. Gamblers would fill the frontons and drop thousands of dollars betting on Basque athletics competing in a sport that was so dangerous it was referred to as the Ballet of Bullets and The Game Is Dodging Death.Johnny Luck sees the potential revenue that could be produced by resurrecting the all but dead blood sport. The question is, how to make it popular again? Jesse has the answer. Television. People will bet on anything; they will also watch anything, as witnessed by the plethora of cooking shows that feature ordinary people competing for who can fry the best egg. If there’s a competition, people will bet on who will win. But where there is money, there is corruption; enter the Miami Bettor’s Club, run by old Hong Main rivals Tommy The King Kong and Marco Antonia Suarez, nicknamed El Astronauta. In the end, the Ballet of Bullets becomes all too real for the people fighting for control of the gambling revenue generated by the International Jai Alai League.

When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more power than police. Here Castle begins to rebuild his life, even as he uncovers some dark truths about his fearsome grandfather. When a Mexican illegal shows up at the ranch, terrified after a border-crossing drug deal gone bad, Castle agrees to take him in. Yet his act of generosity sets off a flood of violence and vengeance, a fierce reminder that we never truly escape our history. Spanning three generations of an Arizona family, Crossers is a blistering novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the border.