Duplicate Keys Chinatown
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Chinatown Gun
This novel relates stories of new Chinese immigrants living in New York, United States. After China adopted the policy of reform and opened up to the outside world in the early 1980s, large numbers of Chinese went abroad and settled in the United States, a paradise they had dreamed of to go to. Chinatown was chosen by most of these new immigrants as their settlement, where they live and work. Chinatown is a place in the high and low were mixed together. The underworld stops at no evil nothing. They carry on extortions and organize the criminal activity of illegal immigration and brutal and bloody fights and killings between factions. The novel tells several new immigrant families, each of them has different experience in China’s mainland; after coming to U.S.A., in order to realize that “American Dream”, many of them worked hard day and night, full of entrepreneurial spirit and some started their own business from scratch. They want to train their children to become a useful person, enduring all kinds of hardships, place hopes on them. But in fact, some children did not take their study seriously, and some even went so far as to sink into degradation or even crimes. Thus, “the American dream” of some new immigrants shattered into pieces. A family of Wang Ming’s is an example among them. Father’s soul is hurt. Son’s body is injured, so they have to get back to the hometown to cure their suffering. This novel has stories that are vividly depicted, intricately plotted, and sometimes breathtaking.
The Matter of the Duct Tape Tuxedo
Author: Steve Levi
language: en
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Release Date: 2019-06-15
Captain Heinz Noonan, "Master of the Impossible Crime," is called upon to solve the most puzzling of riddles. If it's odd, you call Noonan. Why, for instance, would someone steal 200 garden gnomes and then leave them in a pattern across a city? Better yet, how can air cargo increase in weight as it flies and how can a century old Tong highbinder warrior appear in a locked warehouse and then disappear in a cloud of smoke? And why would anyone want to steal anything from a garbage dump? See if you can solve these unusual mysteries faster than the "Bearded Holmes" of the Sandersonville Police Department. Oh, then there is the theft of 8,000 gallons of water, a reappearing coelacanth, the theft of some Komodo dragon trousers and, of course, a missing duct tape tuxedo. The perfect Who dun what for your bookshelf and enjoyment.
Operation Family Secrets
The chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago helped bring down the last great American crime syndicate: the one-hundred-year-old Chicago Outfit. In Operation Family Secrets, Frank Calabrese, Jr. reveals for the first time the outfit’s “made” ceremony and describes being put to work alongside his father and uncle in loan sharking, gambling, labor racketeering, and extortion. As members of the outfit, they plotted the slaying of a fellow gangster, committed the bombing murder of a trucking executive, the gangland execution of two mobsters—whose burial in an Indiana cornfield was reenacted in Martin Scorsese’s blockbuster film Casino—and numerous other hits. The Calabrese Crew’s colossal earnings and extreme ruthlessness made them both a dreaded criminal gang and the object of an intense FBi inquiry. When Frank Jr., his father, and Uncle Nick are convicted on racketeering violations, “Junior” and “Senior” are sent to the same federal penitentiary in Michigan. It's there that Frank Jr. makes the life-changing decision to go straight. But he needs to keep his father behind bars in order to regain control of his life and save his family. So Frank Jr. makes a secret deal with prosecutors, and for six months—unmonitored and unprotected—he wears a wire as his father recounts decades of hideous crimes. Frank Jr.’s cooperation with the FBI for virtually no monetary gain or special privileges helped create the government’s “Operation Family Secrets” campaign against the Chicago outfit, which reopened eighteen unsolved murders, implicated twelve La Cosa Nostra soldiers and two outfit bosses, and became one of the largest organized crime cases in U.S. history. Operation Family Secrets intimately portrays how organized crime rots a family from the inside out while detailing Frank Jr.’s deadly prison-yard mission, the FBI’s landmark investigation, and the U.S. attorney’s office’s daring prosecution of America’s most dangerous criminal organization.