Killers Payoff

Download or read book Killer's Payoff written by Ed McBain and published by Thomas & Mercer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detectives of the 87th Precinct pursue a desperate killer when handsome and wealthy Sy Kramer, a notorious blackmailer, is found with a bullet in his head

Download or read book Pistols and Politics written by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pistols and Politics, Samuel C. Hyde, Jr., reveals the reasons behind the remarkable levels of violence in Louisiana’s Florida parishes in the nineteenth century. This updated and expanded edition deftly brings the analysis forward to account for the continuation of violence and mayhem in the region in the early twentieth century. Numerous pockets of small communities formed in the nineteenth-century South with cultures and values independent from those of the dominant planter class. As Hyde shows, one such area was the Florida parishes of southeastern Louisiana, where peculiar conditions com-bined to create an enclave of white yeomen, and where in the years after the Civil War, levels of conflict escalated to a state of chronic anar-chy. His careful study of a society that degenerated into utter chaos illuminates the factors that allowed these conditions to arise and triumph. Additional material reveals the ongoing impact of a culture riddled with suspicion and bitterness well into the Jim Crow era.

Download or read book Murder is the Pay-Off written by Leslie Ford and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the beat mysteries of the year." -- Providence Journal When an innocent young woman finds herself knee-deep in gambling -- and up to her beautiful neck in debts -- there's apt to be trouble.... And trouble is what Janey Blake had plenty of. She had written a pile of bad checks. And she was fighting to keep her husband from the arms of another woman.... But other people had trouble too. Doc Wemitz, for example. He was afraid of something. And apparently he had reason — for one night someone bashed in his skull.... That was the same night that Janey hit her first jackpot in months — and found a gilded coin that a desperate killer would stop at nothing to retrieve.

Download or read book Killer written by Joey the Hit Man and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: This groundbreaking tell-all by a mob hit man is “chilling and compelling—a must-read” (Former FBI agent Joe Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco). The Bronx-born son of a Jewish bootlegger, “Joey the Hit Man” was introduced to crime when he was just eleven years old. For the next thirty years he was a numbers king, scalper, loan shark, enforcer, and drug smuggler. He hijacked trucks, fenced stolen goods, and trafficked in pornography. But Joey really made his name as a Mafia assassin, racking up thirty-eight cold-blooded hits—thirty-five for cash, three for revenge. In Killer, Joey tells the true story of life in organized crime. He exposes the reality of gang wars, discusses how he raised a family while living on the wrong side of the law, and documents the day-to-day business of crime—from making and breaking alliances to staying one step ahead of the cops. He reveals how he faced a grand jury seven times with no convictions (“never lie to your lawyer”) and kept a seven-figure fortune out of reach of the IRS. He lays out in graphic detail the difference between getting paid to kill and doing it for personal reasons. “People think because they saw [The Godfather] they know everything there is to know about organized crime,” Joey contends. In this no-holds-barred account, he reveals the brutal truth behind the Hollywood fantasy. Forty-five years after this true crime classic shocked readers all over the world and set the standard for bestselling Mafia biographies including Joseph Bonnano’s A Man of Honor and Philip Carlo’s Ice Man, the new edition of Killer includes an afterword by coauthor David Fisher that unmasks Joey’s real identity—and the circumstances behind his death that add another layer of mystery to his complicated, colorful, and fascinating life.

Download or read book Murder Takes a Vacation written by Melvin Krissoff and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early the following morning the shrill sound of my phone ringing startled me awake. Detective Wilson was on the line. I told him he scared the hell out of me and that it was to damn early to get out of the sack. He laughed at me. He stated, "We believe we found Teri's friend and co-worker. Mr. William Corstairs. He is an accountant where Teri Hargrove was employed. He was brought to the precinct this morning for questioning. He is reluctant to speak in fear of losing his job." Wilson said to hurry down to the police station as I was working him on the case. I zoomed into my clothing, got into my truck and rushed to the police station in town. After some time William broke down, sobbing, and told us he had seen Teri several times, but not on the night she was murdered. He could never harm her.

Download or read book Pay Off written by Stephen Leather and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA? Jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a cold-blooded act of murder. His adversary is a dangerous gangland boss whose connections stretch from the Highlands to London and beyond. More than a match for a newcomer, especially when that newcomer's plans contain a fatal flaw which will be discovered only when it is much too late . . . ********* PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping' Irish Independent 'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express

Download or read book Killer Looks written by Tawna Fenske and published by Tawna Fenske. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They’re hitmen. Trained assassins. If they nail this job, there’s a payoff. Possibly cookies. But first, the bad stuff. Dante’s done with hitman life, but there’s one last job to do. A favor to the Duke of Dovlano targeting brutal gun runners. Dante calls on comrades, Matteo—brilliant, brooding, lethal—and charming Sebastian “The Dentist” LaDouceur. Each has skills he’s honed to take out threats at all costs. They’ve also got soft spots for family, lost loves, baby farm animals, and iambic pentameter. But when the job falls apart, their carefully laid plans go up in smoke. Can three killers with a conscience stick together, or is it every man for himself?