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Tony Valentine mysteries volume 6
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Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He's tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas and Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn't crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a body count. What started with a conman's deathbed confession turns into a deadly Las Vegas grudge match during the world's biggest poker tournament. While Gerry and his shady friends tangle with the Vegas...
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"To figure out who killed their husband, a first and second wife must work together ... or die trying. After the sudden death of her ex-husband Brian, Lauren helps Brian's much-younger widow, Jessica, arrange the funeral and settle his affairs. Although they were once adversaries in the battle for Brian's heart, Lauren agrees to pitch in for the sake of their troubled sixteen-year-old daughter, Emily. But Lauren gets much more than she bargained for...
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Penn Cage finds the former prosecutor and bestselling novelist serving as the mayor of Natchez, Miss., his hometown. Frustrated by his limited ability to change the system, Cage is plunged into a deadly duel of wits with some bad guys after a childhood friend, Tim Jessup, now a card dealer, alerts him to illegal dog fighting and sexual abuse connected with a floating casino. Before Jessup can deliver proof of his allegations, he's tortured and killed....
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Penn Cage novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
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Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
6) Harvard man
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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Alan is an all-star Harvard man. He's ambitious, intelligent and star of the college basketball team, juggling two girlfriends. Girlfriend no. 1, his Philosophy professor, Chesney. Girlfriend no. 2, Cindy, a sexy college cheerleader and mob boss daughter with all the right moves, including the beauty, money and power to lure Alan right where she wants him. Needing money, Alan agrees to fix the basketball games. The scheme works until the FBI cathes...
7) Loaded dice
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Tony Valentine mysteries volume 4
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Valentine is in Las Vegas, on the trail of his wayward son, Gerry, who has gone AWOL from card-counting school. Mixing work with parental responsibility, Tony also agrees to help maverick casino owner Nick Nicocropolis prevent two rival owners from putting him out of business.
Pub. Date
c2009
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Chronicles the untold history of Las Vegas, a story that may have never existed without the foresight and sponsorship of America's organized crime syndicate. Las Vegas is the country's greatest resort city and the gambling capital of the world. Home of the famous, and infamous Strip. The right price will get every kind of entertainment and is available for everyone and anyone at any time.
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Tony Valentine mysteries volume 5
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When the Las Vegas's Riverboat Casino starts to burn down, bald, overweight Ricky Smith nosedives five floors into the pool. After this death-defying jump, Smith, a one-time looser, is miraculously transformed into a major-player winner. Battered and drenched, walking across the street to another casino, he begins a million-dollar winning streak at the tables. But ex-cop Tony Valentine soon arrives, begged by the Strip's casino owners to prove that...
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[2012]
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The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America--too dangerous and too deadly to fail. Until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional Crime Family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi. Born in Brooklyn, Polisi was raised on a family legacy as a member of the Colombos, one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families, and came of age when the Mafia was at the height of its vast wealth and power. He ran an after-hours...