Résultats pour "la mafia" dans Fiction historique

I’d played kiss chase when I’d been younger, but never with the devil himself… Never did I dream that my big day would turn into a bloody wedding. Handsome, cruel, and ruthless, Marco Marchiano is the Capo of Chicago and is feared by all. He terrifies me with his darkness, confuses me with his tenderness…and devastates me with his touch. And with this man, I am forever falling.

An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence and of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather. New York, 1933: The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New...

“Questo è un romanzo storico, ovvero un misto di storia e d’invenzione, secondo una celebre definizione. L’intreccio è immaginario ma attento a non contraddire quanto la storiografia sa del contesto materiale e spirituale del passato. Ruota intorno al tema della mafia e dell’antimafia, dice di un amore indissolubilmente legato alla passione civile. Si svolge tra il 1907 e il 1909, ma tanti squarci si aprono anche su momenti precedenti e successivi. I luoghi sono Palermo, Napoli, Livorno, e un po’ anche Roma e New York. Tra i personaggi, alcuni sono realmente esistiti, altri no.

Inventor Henrietta Mason is retiring from airships and adventuring to return home to Philadelphia. Determined to erase all trails leading to her late father's duplicity, she dismantles his lab and removes all records of the Badlands gold. While in the city, she can't resist the lure of a charity gala but winds up regretting the whole experience. Well, everything except a heart-racing dance with a certain U.S. Marshal.

Die Mafia - ein Unterwelt-Phänomen, eine Organisation des professionellen Verbrechens -, für derart banale Formen der Kriminologie pflegt ein Professor van Dusen sich bekanntlich nicht zu interessieren", gab eben dieser noch hochnäsig von sich, bevor ihn äußere Umstände zu einem Meinungsumschwung bewegten. In der 35. Straße werden van Dusen und Hutchinson Hatch in eine Kutsche gezerrt und in das Quartier des ermordeten Mafia-Bosses Pasquale Malavita verschleppt.

“A splendid piece of crime fiction . . . a fitting cap to a tremendous career . . . Through it all, Puzo keeps the heat on and keeps the reader enthralled with his characters and his story.”—The Denver Post To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children, he was a loyal family member, their father’s...