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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit...
3) Crank
Language
English
Description
Chev Chelios is a professional assassin working for the West Coast crime syndicate. Chev is planning to quit the crime syndicate so he can spend more time with his girlfriend Eve. But for Chev, things go very bad when he learns he has been injected with a poison called "The Beijing Cocktail" by his rival Verona. The poison will kill Chev if his heart rate drops. Chev has to protect Eve and he sets out to find answers as well as exacting revenge on...
4) Ronin
Language
English
Description
In a world where loyalties are easily abandoned and allegiances can be bought, a new and deadlier terrorist threat has emerged -- free-agent killers! The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. These operatives, known as "Ronin, " are assembled in France by a mysterious client for a seemingly routine mission: steal a top-secret briefcase. But the simple task soon proves explosive...
5) Proud Mary
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
[Limited edition].
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son; firefighter Jeremy Coleman nearly escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshalls.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Miami Beach, 1959. Ike rings in the New Year at his Miramar Playa Hotel. The Kennedys, the mob and the CIA all hold court here. But everything comes at a price. To finance his dream, Ike sold his soul to mob boss Ben 'The Butcher' Diamond. Everyone thinks he's an honorable man, but he can't break his pact with the devil. His life is a facade. Nothing at the Miramar Playa is what it seems. As Ike's world threatens to implode, he fights for his family,...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Julian, an American fugitive from justice, runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for his drug business. His mother, the head of a vast criminal organization, arrives from the U.S. to collect the body of her favorite son, Billy, who has just been killed. Crazy with rage and thirsty for vengeance she demands the heads of the murderers from Julian. But first, Julian must confront Chang, a mysterious retired policeman who has resolved to scourge the...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Miami Beach, 1959. Ike rings in the New Year at his Miramar Playa Hotel. The Kennedys, the mob and the CIA all hold court here. But everything comes at a price. To finance his dream, Ike sold his soul to mob boss Ben 'The Butcher' Diamond. Everyone thinks he's an honorable man, but he can't break his pact with the devil. His life is a facade. Nothing at the Miramar Playa is what it seems. As Ike's world threatens to implode, he fights for his family,...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The leader of this crime-solving trio is Shake, a cranky, cynical beverage with a pink flex-straw driven into his frosty top. The chief problem solver in the bunch is Frylock, who resembles a sack of fast-food fries crossed with the Red Devil from the paint cans. Meatwad's name couldn't be more appropriately descriptive, and he's the good-natured softy in the bunch. The three live together near the New Jersey shore and pretty much split their time...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Alexander Coates' criminal empire has been good to him and devastating to his enemies until his number one hit-man, Roman Hurst, messes up what should have been a routine hit. Alexander spares his protégé's life, but cripples his hands, thus 'retiring' Hurst forever. Before long, Alexander realizes that he'll need Hurst's help with assistance from Jimmy Peanuts one last time when Iceman, a ruthless killer, surfaces.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Infamous vigilante, Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, has been on his vengeance driven zeal for the past six years. He brutally assaults a 'beat the rap' party for the notorious mob boss Gaitano Cesare. He hideously disfigures gangster Billy Russoti and murders a mafia lackey who turns out to be an undercover FBI agent. Agent Paul Budiansky is the ex-partner of the undercover agent who joins the NYPD's 'Punisher Task Force' to help bring Castle...
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The leader of this crime-solving trio is Shake, a cranky, cynical beverage with a pink flex-straw driven into his frosty top. The chief problem solver in the bunch is Frylock, who resembles a sack of fast-food fries crossed with the Red Devil from the paint cans. Meatwad's name couldn't be more appropriately descriptive, and he's the good-natured softy in the bunch. The three live together near the New Jersey shore and pretty much split their time...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Mafia boss Don Carini (Harvey Keitel) is retiring. When he gathers the family to give the news, the Don surprises everyone by anointing his goofy adopted son Young-gu (Hyung-Rae Shim) as the next godfather. With Young-gu bumble his way to success and prove his father proud? Or will his dumb antics play into his enemies' goal to leave Young-gu sleeping with the fishes?"--Container.
15) Tango & Cash
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Two rival L.A. policemen who have one thing in common -- each thinks "he" is the best -- team up to pursue a vicious international crimelord who has set them up.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A realistic look at the violence that shook America's past, this gritty series pays tribute to stoic gangbuster Eliot Ness and his incorruptible treasury agents as they battle organized crime. In this volume, with narcotics the new vice and a major racketeering bill passed in Washington, D.C., Ness and his men are given more power, even in cities other than Chicago.
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