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Author
Publisher
Barricade Books
Publication Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xii, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
By now, everyone knows the story of the mob's involvement in Las Vegas's growth from quiet desert town to "Sin City.". At the end of the movie Casino, you see a hotel come down and a voice describes the end of the mob era in Vegas. That was hardly the end of the Las Vegas story; in fact, it was just the beginning. This book tells the story of the corporate raiders--the Kirk Kirkorians and the Steve Wynns--who moved in as the mob era crumbled (literally)...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Publication Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xii, 364 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born in Cuba, Jose Vigoa used his quick wits and quicker fists to trade a life of poverty and desperation for one of danger and adventure as a Soviet-trained special forces officer. Battle-hardened in Afghanistan and Angola, Vigoa won a reputation for toughness, bravery, and coolness under fire. Then, in 1980, Castro opened Cuba's floodgates in the Mariel boatlift, and Vigoa, like so many others, braved chaos and hardship to start a new life in America's...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
When yet another journalist is murdered during Vladimir Putin's war on the free press, Russian agent Alexei Volkovoy takes the event personally and vows to seek justice. His investigation leads him around the world and unearths a surprising nuclear alliance between American, Russian, and French politicians.
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die.
In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking...
In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking...
5) Swept Away
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The emotional story of a young woman's journey as she leaves behind all the things she thought she wanted only to discover who she really is. #1 New York Times bestselling author ROBYN CARR explores the challenges facing women today as they are valued for what's on the outside rather than the inside.Jennifer Chaise is proud of her life. Coming from nothing, she's used her beauty to her advantage and is swept up in a glamorous world of wealth...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Debt collectors French and Sue get to work doing what they do best, cracking skulls and breaking bones, as they chase down the various lowlifes who owe money to their boss, Tommy. They're summoned to Las Vegas to collect from a dirty casino owner. Meanwhile, a notorious drug kingpin is on the warpath to kill French and Sue to avenge his brother's death. Facing danger from all angles, the pair will have no other choice but to fight their way out of...
9) Random
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he's inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby's prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower's façade....
Author
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Temple Barr, publicist extraordinaire, is itching to bring off her most dangerous and exciting assignment, helping the Family Fontana to launch an endeavor that many a Vegas showman has dreamed of: a Las Vegas mob museum/casino with underground speakeasy. But Temple's grand scheme - a live "opening Bugsy Siegel's vault" media event built around a huge buried safe they found - produces a two-day-old body dressed in white tie and tails.
11) Overturned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
13) The chapel wars
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Holly's grandfather leaves her his financially-strapped Las Vegas wedding chapel in his will, along with a letter asking her to reach out to Dax, the grandson of her family's mortal enemy and owner of the chapel next door, who is both cute and distracting.
Author
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style twenty years old, living and working...
15) Righteous: #2
Author
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isaiah Quintabe has, against many odds, built a proper life for himself: a respected detective in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull (courtesy of his previous client). But something is wrong: the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago has sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to escape. RIGHTEOUS is the story of Isaiah's investigation...
16) 'Round midnight
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
536 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
'Round Midnight is a novel about the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub called the Midnight Room. June hires a charismatic black man to sing at her club, but her fast-paced lifestyle runs aground as racial tensions mount. Honorata leaves the Philippines as a mail-order bride, then strikes it rich in the Midnight Room. Meanwhile Engracia finds bad luck in the...
17) Casino
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"LVPD's brilliant forensics team encounters their greatest challenges yet in the stunning ninth season of CSI: crime scene investigation. Watch and learn as the team wrestles with death, destiny and inner demons."--Container.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sara is kidnapped by the miniature killer; the parents of a missing girl are murdered and the suspect is a pastor; a popular movie actress is murdered; a young boy and his babysitter are murdered and FBI agent Jack Malone comes to investigate; a well-known Vegas humanitarian is killed for her involvement in a dog-fighting ring; the team investigates the death of a young girl left in a cardboard box; Warrick is found at a mobster's crime scene with...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"LVPD's brilliant forensics team encounters their greatest challenges yet in the stunning ninth season of CSI: crime scene investigation. Watch and learn as the team wrestles with death, destiny and inner demons."--Container.

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