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RICH MAN, CON MAN, ASSASSIN, THIEF...THEY PLAYED THE OLDEST—AND DEADLIEST—OF GAMES They came at their victims from all sides. Bastiano—the feeble-minded monster whose brain knew nothing but the art of assault and mayhem... Angelo—who understood what a bottle of acid could do to a pretty face when it got in his way... Lola—who knew enough to blow the whole dirty operation to kingdom come... Gracio—who hadn’t personally killed anyone in more than four years... These were the extortioners—experts in arson, intimidation, and murder.
Lieutenant Sam Johnson sat listening intently as the police psychologist spoke. “I’m afraid we’re dealing with another sex crime. There’s no question about it—think of how the bodies were mutilated. Also this killer will strike without reason or motive, and he will strike again and again until his morbid sexual desires are satisfied.” Lieutenant Johnson, the most experienced detective on the force, leaned forward. “And I’ll tell you something, Doctor,” he said. “We know this is man is big and powerful. We know he’s an expert with the knife. But that’s all we know.” A madman on the loose in THE SLASHER
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Publius Ovidius Naso; 20 March 43 BC - AD 17/18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of Virgil and Horace. He is best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love"). His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology. Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and ...
CHARLES “LUCKY” LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafia—a natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Everything—everyone—he touched turned rotten. He knew he had it made when he had more cops on his payroll prostitutes. Pal of Al Capone, Frank Costello Buggsy Siegel, Albert Anastasia, Lucky became the absolute ruler of a private empire built on vice, corruption and murder. This is the Lucky Luciano story—brutal, shocking, with nothing left out.
The night Jimmy Fratianno became a government witness, not a single Mafia boss slept. As a "made guy" in La Cosa Nostra, Jimmy Fratianno knew their best-kept secrets. A soldier, capo, and ex-boss of the Los Angeles family, involved at the highest levels with bookmaking, gambling, union racketeering, extortion, pornography, and virtually every criminal activity to which organized crime is linked, Fratianno also earned the reputation as the Mafla's top killer in California.Fratianno became the highest-ranking Mafloso ever to "turn," and in the past two years his testimony, in courtrooms across the nation, has been making sensational headlines. A veteran investigative reporter and bestselling a...
A novel of the mob originally published by Gold Medal Books in 1957 by the author of THE GREEN FELT JUNGLE and THE LAST MAFIOSO.