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    Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John Sonny Franzese
    Based on exclusive interviews before his death in 2020 at age 103, SONNY is the first and only authorized biography of legendary mob boss John "Sonny" Franzese, the head of the Columbo crime family and financier of the infamous film Deep Throat. An old school Mafioso, he kept silent on his nine decade career in organized crime, remaining loyal to the Mafia oath throughout 30 years in prison, until he finally agreed to talk to award-winning Newsday reporter S.J. Peddie for this groundbreaking, never-before-revealed account. John "Sonny" Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a "made man" for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, loansharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades-and was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery charges. But even behind bars, Sonny Franzese never stopped doing business… This is the true story of an old-school Mafioso as it's never been told before. Newsday reporter S.J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison-and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself: • Why FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a very personal interest in Sonny. • How Sonny managed to juggle numerous affairs with women, including a famous model. • How Sonny spent a third of his life in prison-and still managed to earn untold millions for the mob. • How Sonny accidentally revealed some of his worst crimes-to a "friend" wearing a wire. • How Sonny hobnobbed with celebrities such as Ava Gardner, Jayne Mansfield, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dionne Warwick, among others. Through it all, Franzese refused to break the Mafia's code of silence. Authorities believe he may have murdered, or ordered the murders of, forty to fifty people. Yet he earned a grudging respect from law enforcement and an absolute reverence from his fellow gangsters. Eventually he managed to outlive them all-until his death in 2020 of natural causes, a rare event in the Mafia. Thanks to a series of exclusive firsthand interviews with Newsday reporter S.J. Peddie, the astonishing life story of John "Sonny" Franzese can be told in all its bold, brutal, and blood-spattered glory. This is a must-read for anyone fascinated with Mafia history-and a rare look inside a criminal mind that has become the stuff of legend.
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    Killing Plato: The Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
    The gritty and taut Killing Plato is 100 percent unadulterated attitude.” (The Singapore Straits Times)“Jake Needham is a classic master of crime, intrigue, and edgy thrillers.” (James Grady, New York Times best-selling author of Six Days of The Condor)Jack Shepherd was a politically connected American lawyer until he traded the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life of a college professor in Thailand. Everything had been going pretty well for him there, too, at least it had until the day he walked into a bar on the jet-set island of Phuket and found the world’s most famous fugitive waiting for him.Plato Karsarkis was an international celebrity straight out of Vanity Fair until a New York grand jury indicted him for smuggling Iraqi oil and charged him with racketeering and money laundering. There’s also the matter of a woman he may or may not have murdered to cover it all up. When Karsarkis fled the United States and disappeared, the world’s media whipped itself into a frenzy searching for him.Karsarkis is waiting for Shepherd in that Phuket bar because he wants to hire him. He figures a presidential pardon would be his ticket back to America, and he thinks Shepherd’s connections to the White House just might get it for him. But the U.S. Marshals are in Phuket, too, and they need Shepherd’s help as well. The marshals want Shepherd to set a trap for Karsarkis so they can grab him and drag him back to New York. All Shepherd wants is for everybody to go away and leave him alone. At least he does until he learns a chilling secret that plunges him a violent spiral of friendship and betrayal and pulls him straight back into the life he thought he had left behind in Washington.The marshals aren’t really in Phuket to arrest Plato Karsarkis. They’re there to kill him. UNKNOWN N N ©2006, 2011 Jake Raymond Needham;(P)2014 Jake Raymond Needham http://www.audible.de/pd/B00LCBC5CC?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B00LCBC5CC?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true The 30 Day Novel Success Journal: Overcome Procrastination, Figure out What Happens next and Get Your Novel Written (Unabridged) 7.95 AVAILABLE The 30 Day Novel Success Journal: Overcome Procrastination, Figure out What Happens next and Get Your Novel Written (Unabridged) The 30 Day Novel Success Journal (Unabridged) Lynn Johnston Having a great idea for a story isn't enough to get your novel across the finish line.... Sandy Orkin Bonnie Lynn Johnston 2014-06-27 13:35:46 170 B00LCCLCAC English - Self-Development English 1.00 4.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/020235de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020235/bk_acx0_020235_sample.mp3 Having a great idea for a story isn't enough to get your novel across the finish line. You also need to know how to overcome the two biggest reasons that novelists fail: Plotting problems and procrastination. The 30 Day Novel Success Journal gives you the tools to overcome these obstacles and get your novel written. Lynn combines elements of three-act structure, the character growth arc, and the Hero's Journey to create an extremely flexible story blueprint that you can adapt to the story you want to tell. The blueprint is broken down into 30 steps, so you'll know exactly where your characters should be in their journey each day. Each day's step is paired with brainstorming questions to help you shape your story for maximum impact. Already have an outline? You can also use the blueprint as a guide to fine-tune your existing novel outline for stronger pacing. Each day's journal entry includes a series of After You Write" questions to help you identify and overcome distractions and self-sabotaging thoughts that can cause you to procrastinate. By the end of this 30-day program, you'll know how to shift into a more positive, productive mindset. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Filbrich. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/020255/bk_acx0_020255_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Upperworld and the Underworld
    The Upperworld and the Underworld - Case Studies of Racketeering and Business Infiltrations in the United States: ab 96.49 €
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    Get Shorty
    Drug-smuggling. Racketeering. Loan sharking. Welcome to Hollywood! This hysterical comedy suggests it doesn't take much to make it in the movies... when you've got a background with the mob. Loan shark Chili Palmer (John Travolta) has done his time as a gangster. So when "business" takes him to L.A. to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), Chili jumps headfirst into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes a film star (Danny DeVito), romances a B-movie actress (Rene Russo) and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town. In fact, all would be cool for this smooth new producer if it weren't for the drug smugglers and an angry mobster who won't leave him alone. But hey, this is Hollywood and no one said it would be easy.
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