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From the bestselling author of Sleepers and former writer/producer
of Law & Order comes another high-octane New York City crime
drama pulsing with energy. In Lorenzo Carcaterra's Chasers, the
street-smart and highly specialized cadre of renegade NYPD cops
last depicted in his acclaimed novel Apaches returns in a new tale
of action and suspense.
It's 1985, and the city that never sleeps is about to wish it had
stayed in bed. The heinous machine-gun murder of innocent
bystanders in a Manhattan restaurant shocks all five boroughs. The
brutal slaying propels the surviving members of the
Apaches-controversial, take-'em-down, outside-the-law ex-cops-into
investigating a Colombian drug cartel responsible for distributing
millions of kilos of cocaine on American shores.
Along for the harrowing ride with Boomer, Dead-Eye, and Reverend
Jim are three new Apaches: Ash, a wounded female Hispanic cop who
specializes in arson investigations; Quincy, an HIV-positive
recruit who's a forensics expert; and a retired police dog named
Buttercup, a Neapolitan bullmastiff who is no ordinary animal but a
gold-shield detective, highly decorated for his skills at sniffing
out illegal drugs. Now this dedicated team will become Chasers,
working multiple cases that will converge into one explosive,
all-out street war.
They will face a gallery of formidable enemies: Quinones, a
mysterious and deadly assassin; the Boiler Man, a killer as
ruthless as he is cunning; Angel, a former priest turned cartel
boss, determined to end his career as the richest drug baron in the
world; and the G-Men, a band of dealers and doers determined to
maintain their iron grip on the cocaine trade-no matter how much
blood is spilled.
Fueled by Lorenzo Carcaterra's adrenaline-rush prose and peopled
with uncommon heroes and merciless crime lords tearing through city
streets, Chasers proves to be this acclaimed author's most intense
novel to date.
"From the Hardcover edition."
The most exciting achievement to date from the acclaimed author of
"Sleepers" and "Gangster," "Paradise City" is a riveting thriller
of two cops and two countries, a stunning crime novel about the
roots of revenge, honor, and evil.
As a fifteen-year-old, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice
the hard way. His father was gunned down by the Camorra, the
murderous clan run by Don Nicola Rossi. When his mother moved him
from New York back to his family's ancestral home in Naples, Gian
found himself face-to-face with the source of the mob's strength,
the spring that spawned its deadly killers.
Today, twenty-three years later, he is a dogged detective on the
Naples police force, homicide division, the most dangerous beat in
Europe. He is the nemesis of all who export evil, the man who stops
it before it spreads overseas. His efforts have not gone unnoticed.
"The strength of Naples reinforces the muscle of New York"-and now
the two worlds are about to collide.
In the highest towers of the most expensive streets of New York
City, Pete Rossi, the son of Don Nicola, has decided to bring Gian
back to America-permanently. When Gian learns that his teenage
niece, Paula, has gone missing in Manhattan, he cancels a
much-needed vacation to Capri, to paradise, joking that "one island
is just as good as the other."
Gian's homecoming will be anything but smooth. Someone must always
watch his back, and Detective Jennifer Fabini gets the job. A
gifted officer with her own personal demons, Jennifer thinks she'll
be dealing with a peasant from the old country. The handsome,
reserved, unrelenting Gian is a revelation: an irritant and a
temptation-especially for a woman who has sworn off copsas lovers.
Together the two must solve a disappearance that appears to be a
kidnapping . . . but turns out to be a deadly trap.
As they dash from the sun-struck villages of Italy to the darkest
drug dens of New York, their journey links old-world honor and
modern-day danger, and ends in a dizzying explosion of the present
and the past. "Paradise City" is Lorenzo Carcaterra's richest
entertainment, a book that is at once a sensational crime novel and
a provocative exploration of his trademark themes: violence and
innocence, love and revenge.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Remember these names: Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend
Jim. Mrs. Columbo. They were great cops. The best cops. But they
are cops no more.
Now they are apaches--a renegade unit working on their own.
With this novel, the author of the stunning #1 bestseller Sleepers
returns to the mean streets he knows so well. And in doing so, he
has written his most explosive, electrifying, and startling book
yet. It is the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating
appearance. Violence is escalating and so is an unnerving lack of
morality. Things are happening that have never happened before.
One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent
12-year-old girl. But the kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He
has brought Boomer Frontierie back to life, back to the streets.
And back into action. A New York City detective forced to retire
after being wounded in a drug bust, Boomer thirsts to return to the
life he loved--the life of a cop. When an old friend turns to him
for help, Boomer has the excuse he needs. And when the simple
kidnapping turns into something more, something much more evil,
even more horrifying, Boomer realizes that he can once again find a
way to serve justice.
There are others like Boomer. Cops who can no longer be cops. He
brings them together, bringing them back to life as well. Even as
they face almost certain death.
Apaches is the story of an extraordinary band of cops. Some might
call them criminals. Some might call them heroes. But theirs is a
world where good is always shadowed by bad, where right is almost
indecipherable from wrong, and where the living can, within mere
moments, cross over to the world of the dead.
Lorenzo Carcaterra has written the most exciting novel of the year.
Like Sleepers, it is a book that will never be forgotten.
"From the Hardcover edition."
An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty and revenge. They were four boys who shared everything - the laughter and bruises of an impoverished upbringing in New York's West Side. Then one of their pranks misfired - a man nearly died and they were sent away to a reformatory school. Then they suffered the worst abuse the guards could inflict on them. They were forever scarred by their experiences. Eleven years later:two of them became killers for the mob. They met the ringleader of the guards who abused them - and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. No one thought they would see the outside of a prison again - but the four friends banded together once more and in one last, audacious stand brought their own vengeance to the courtroom.
Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience.
It’s late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti-Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: If the city can’t belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one.
No one but children. Children who have been orphaned or hidden by parents in a last, defiant gesture against the Nazis. Children, some as young as ten years old, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the city—or die trying.
There is Vincenzo Soldari, a sixteen-year-old history buff who is determined to make history by leading others with courage and self-confidence; Carlo Maldini, a middle-aged drunkard desperate to redeem himself by adding his experience to the raw exuberance of the young fighters; Nunzia Maldini, his nineteen-year-old daughter, who helps her father regain his self-respect— and loses her heart to an American G.I.; Corporal Steve Connors, a soldier sent out on reconnaissance, then cut off from his comrades—with no choice but to aid the street boys; Colonel Rudolph Van Klaus, the proud Nazi commander shamed by his own sadistic mission; and, of course, the dozens of young boys who use their few skills and great heart to try to save their city, their country, and themselves.
In its compassionate portrait of the rootless young, and its pitiless portrayal of the violence that is at once their world and their way out, Street Boys continues and deepens Lorenzo Carcaterra’s trademark themes. In its awesome scope and pure page-turning excitement, it stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us all—and as a singular addition to the novels about World War II.
From the Hardcover edition.
Boomer. Dead-Eye. Pins. Geronimo. Reverend Jim. Mrs. Columbo. Legends of the NYPD, they were great cops. The best cops. But they are cops no more. Now they are apaches, a renegade unit working on their own.--reunited to bring down the most vicious criminal working New York City today. . . .
"Dramatic, graphic and wrenching...The reader is left to wonder--at the devastation of Carcaterra's youth, at his survival to adulthood, and at the grace that allowed him to craft this piercing memoir." THE WASHINGTON POST Lorenza Carcaterra grew up in Hell's Kitchen, New York in the 1950s and '60s in a confusing world of love and fear of his paradoxically violent and affectionate father. Then Lorenzo learned that his father had murdered his first wife. And he wondered how he could love his father again. Did he possess the same murderous fury; would he someday suddenly lash out at those he loved? As his father's physical abuse escalated, Lorenzo sought frantically for a safe place...a place where he could find hope and reconciliation and peace, where his father's terrible shadow no longer lingered. Now, decades later, Lorenzo has finally come to terms with the awful truth about his father. A SAFE PLACE is the brilliant result.
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 bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption.
Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family--the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals--in friendship, in his brutal business, in love-- yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen.
As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create.
A sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, Gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, Gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man's fight against his fate--and an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century.
From the Hardcover edition.
Kate Westcott, a gifted American art student, has come to
Florence to study Michelangelo. Exploring the cobbled streets of
the Renaissance city with her fellow student Marco, Kate feels the
pull of destiny. And when the two uncover a chamber in a corridor
sealed since the time of the Medicis, they make a stunning
discovery: Michelangelo's Midnight Angels--three small, exquisite
sculptures long rumored to exist but never before seen. It is the
find of a lifetime--and the beginning of a nightmare.
Pursued by criminals, suspected by the Rome Art Squad, and
navigating the underground network of a secret society, Kate and
Marco must use all their cunning to protect Michelangelo's
work--and their lives.
A major new translation of a forgotten classic
Paris, 1793, the onset of the Terror. Brave Republican Maurice
rescues a mys-terious and beautiful woman from an angry mob and is
unknowingly drawn into a secret Royalist plot--a plot revolving
around the imprisoned Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and her
enigmatic and fearless champion, the Knight of Maison-Rouge. Full
of surprising twists, breakneck adventure, conspiracies, swordplay,
romance, and heroism, "The Knight of Maison-Rouge" is an
exhilarating tale of selflessness, love, and honor under the shadow
of the guillotine. Dumas here is at the very height of his powers,
and with this first and only modern translation, readers can once
again ride with the Knight of Maison-Rouge.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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