Ergebnis für "De Gangster" in Literatur & Belletristik

Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his best-selling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption.

1881 - Special Agent Gillian Hamilton, magic caster for the Federal Bureau of Magic and Steam, has recovered from injuries obtained while in Shallow Grave, Arizona. Now back in New York City, Gillian makes an arrest on New Year’s Eve that leads to information on a gangster, known only as Tick Tock, who’s perfected utilizing elemental magic ammunition. This report complicates Gillian’s holiday plans, specifically those with infamous outlaw, Gunner the Deadly, who promised they’d ring in 1882 together.

Vampire, Ghouls, Werwölfe, Sensationen! - Wir hatten die Dämonenhorden des Zirkus Luzifer vernichtet, aber sein Anführer, der geheimnisvolle Mandarin, war ebenso untergetaucht wie sein Helfershelfer Lui Latero, der Messerwerfer. Schon bald sahen wir uns wieder - als die Totenkopf-Gang des Mandarin London terrorisierte! Die CLASSICS-Reihe erzählt die Vorgeschichte: Wie alles begann und John Sinclair zum berühmten Geisterjäger wurde.

It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special Black Hand Squad, but the gangsters appear to be everywhere - so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and, as Bell discovers to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all.

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program inside America's private prison system. Harkening back to the time of gladiators, but watched by millions of live-stream subscribers, prisoners compete for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

Camelot als Gotham City, Motorräder statt Schlachtrösser: So haben Sie die Artus-Sage noch nie gelesen! Sie glauben, alles über die Artus-Sage zu wissen? Dann kennen Sie die Neon Knights noch nicht! In dieser düsteren Roman-Dilogie nehmen die Ritter nicht etwa an der Tafelrunde Platz, sondern ringen als geltungssüchtige Celebrities in Fernsehkämpfen um Ruhm, Reichtum und Gerechtigkeit. Allen voran die junge Red, die sich nichts sehnlicher wünscht, in die Riege der Ritter aufgenommen zu werden – um endlich Rache an dem Mann zu nehmen, der vor so vielen Jahren ihr Leben zerstört hat.

It’s the summer of ’77 in New York City, and the only thing more unnerving than the scorching heatwave is the rampant murder, leaving washed-up homicide detective Richard Dietrich on edge. When Dietrich investigates a brutal mob hit the brass doesn’t want him to solve, he goes from phoning it in to getting in over his head. Caught up in a mysterious second homicide with an even more perplexing perpetrator, Dietrich starts to second guess his instincts—and his memory—as he searches for answers at the bottom of a bottle.

Die Gräfin gibt mal wieder eine Mitternachtsparty. Ausgerechnet an diesem Tag leidet Hugo wegen einer Jupiterfinsternis an Kraftlosigkeit. Und ausgerechnet bei dieser Party erscheint ungebetener Besuch.

New York ! En ces tumultueuses années 1920, pour des milliers d'Européens, la ville est synonyme de "rêve américain". C'est le cas pour Cetta Luminata, une Italienne qui, du haut de son jeune âge, compte bien se tailler une place au soleil avec Christmas, son fils. Dans une cité en plein essor où la radio débute à peine et le cinéma se met à parler, Christmas grandit entre gangs adverses, violence et pauvreté, avec ses rêves et sa gouaille comme planche de salut.

Kommissar Sören Grießler ist nicht begeistert, als man ihn zur Reha schickt. Und dann auch noch eine psychosomatische Reha. Er weiß, was das bedeutet: Achtsamkeit, Meditation und Stuhlkreis. Was er nicht weiß: der Job holt ihn auch in dieser geschützten Umgebung ein. Ein schrecklicher Mord geschieht und das direkt vor seinen Augen. Soll er sich in die Ermittlung einmischen oder die Füße stillhalten? Die Bademantel-Gang nimmt ihm diese Entscheidung ab.

Der neue Roman des zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträgers. Im schillernden Harlem der 1960er-Jahre, wo Gangster und Zuhälter, Hochstapler und Schießwütige die Strippen ziehen, versucht ein Mann aus einfachen Verhältnissen so ehrlich wie möglich aufzusteigen. Eigentlich würde Ray Carney am liebsten ohne Betrügereien auskommen. Doch als seine Frau ein zweites Kind erwartet, reichen die Einkünfte aus seinem Einrichtungsladen auf der 125th Street nicht aus für den Standard, den die Schwiegereltern erwarten. Cousin Freddie bringt gelegentlich eine Goldkette vorbei, die Ray bei einem Juwelier am Times Square versetzt.

When I was three years old, I was found homeless in the woods, alone and feral. When asked how I survived all of those years by myself, I had one answer: the Shadow Man. I have no memory of that time. No memory of anything, really, before the accident. I rely on stories from my fathers about this supposed imaginary friend. Got into a fight at school? The Shadow Man made me. Stole from a store? He forced me to. Snuck out of the house? He came with me.

Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his first prison cell at 15, has become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over towns and defying authority.

This is the 1927 book that years later inspired the movie of the same name. It is a book about criminal violence, corrupt politics and police, and illicit sex. The City of New York, from the late colonial period up to the early twentieth century, was a bustling hub of commerce, industry, and immigration. For many the city was the gateway to a new life in America, and for many others it was a place to steal a buck from their fellow New Yorkers and visitors to the city with thievery, fraud, and vice—in neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Bowery, Hells Kitchen, and the Water Front.

Wie gewohnt besticht Lenz durch seine unverwechselbare Erzählkunst, die Volker Lechtenbrink mit seiner Stimme gekonnt zum Leben erweckt. Das Feuerschiff - ein Symbol der Sicherheit. Während es in der Ostsee vor Anker liegt, nimmt der Kapitän Johann Freytag Schiffbrüchige auf, deren Boot zerstört wurde. Wie sich rasch herausstellt, handelt es sich bei diesen Menschen jedoch keineswegs um Hilfesuchenden, sondern um eine Verbrecherbande, die schwer bewaffnet ist. Auf einmal wird die vermeintlich unerschütterliche Sicherheit gefährdet. Wird Freytag sich und seine unbewaffnete Crew vor den Gangstern schützen können?

Providence, RI, 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend and occasional 'muscle' for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He yearns for something more and dreams of starting over fresh, someplace far away. But when a modern-day Helen of Troy triggers a war between rival mob factions, Danny is embroiled in a conflict he can’t escape. Now it is up to him to step into the breach to protect his family, the friends who are closer to him than brothers and the only home he’s ever known.

War has come to the Lot Lands - and Oats stands upon the front line. The formidable armies on the horizon are bolstered by divine champions, dread sorcerers and gunpowder. But Oats has won impossible fights before. He's a thriceblood, after all, more orc than man. And he hasn't forgotten how to kill. He'll stack the bodies high for his chief and his brethren, if that's the price of freeing the Lots from human tyranny.

Fox, JJ, Chase, and Maverick. The four names tattooed onto my heart more permanently than any of the ink on my skin. They don’t just live in this town anymore, they rule it. And the view here may be beautiful, but the sun, sea and sand hide dark secrets. The gangs. The lies. The violence. It all lurks beneath a veil so thin that once you’ve seen through it, you can never close your eyes to the truth again. But I don’t plan on closing my eyes. I have four devils set in my sights. And this dead girl no longer has anything to lose.

Set against the backdrop of a professional American football franchise seven centuries in the future, the Galactic Football League puts huge humans on the field with five alien races to create a game that is faster, stronger and deadlier than anything we know today. Quarterback Quentin Barnes has grown from a racist, small-town standout into a proven leader, a uniter of peoples, and the Galaxy’s most-famous being. Willing to do anything for his team, his Ionath Krakens have bound together through shared sacrifice, tragedy, devastating losses and thrilling victories.

Meet Ceazia, a very attractive, very good girl who has just left the safety of her parents' home and entered into the world of bad boys and fast money. Ceazia thinks the world belongs to her when she meets Vegas, one of the Tidewater, Virginia, area's most notorious drug dealers. Even though a relationship with Vegas goes against everything her parents taught her, she still can't resist his bad boy persona.