A Funeral for Sonny Pinto

A Funeral for Sonny Pinto
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781524588885
ISBN-13 : 1524588881
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis A Funeral for Sonny Pinto by : Michael Tomlinson

Onions builds his reputation as being one of the best. As a hit man for ONI, the Office of Naval Intelligence, hes seen and done enough to make him want to walk away for good. When hes given his last orders, his opportunity to walk away turns deadly. A politically connected banker is in trouble. Blackmailed by an unknown faction, the banker hires Onions to solve the problem permanently with deadly force. But no sooner do Onions go into action than his life, the life he hoped to have after retiring, is thrown into a tailspin that leads down a dark trail. Thugs try to drown him. His son vanishes, and a woman is murdered in his condo. It is all Onions can do to make sense of it. Making matters worse, his poker buddies have another request. This time the stakes are higher. Can Onions regain control before there is any more bloodshed?

In Memory of Sonny Pinto

In Memory of Sonny Pinto
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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781456834098
ISBN-13 : 1456834096
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis In Memory of Sonny Pinto by : R. M. Tomlinson

Things are different in Mexico. Drug cartels fight over delivery routes to the U.S. market. Police and government officials who will not take bribes are eliminated. The military patrol the streets with M-16s pointed at people. Mexicans hope the good will win. Onions McGraw is hit man for national security. He loves Karl, his son who lives in Mexico, and wants to spend time with him before it is too late. Carole Tremblay, his girlfriend and provincial cop, is shot after they deliver Sonny Pinto to Dorval airport for extradition to Mexico. He sues the government over a beating he got in prison. Canada settles out of court because it does not want a trial. Carole presents a friend to Onions. Carmen Jolibois wants him to stop General Chaing Lee from blackmailing her husband. He has to send parts of rocket propelled grenades in fruit shipments to Mexico on the way to Afghanistan. Her brother, Maurice, is a physician in Haiti and a taxi driver in Montreal. The fat cop writes the report after a crocodile finishes this affair in the hotel swimming pool.

Mafia Hit Man

Mafia Hit Man
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Publisher : Citadel Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780806541099
ISBN-13 : 0806541091
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Mafia Hit Man by : Frank Dimatteo

WHO REALLY KILLED “CRAZY JOE” GALLO? AT LAST, THE TRUTH CAN BE TOLD. AND IT WASN’T FRANK “THE IRISHMAN” SHEERAN AS HE CLAIMED. This is the shocking and brutal story of Carmine DiBiase—aka Sonny Pinto—the elusive Mafia killer who went from small-time street punk to FBI’s Most Wanted list to Death Row—only to be released on the streets to kill and kill again . . . among those who died by his gun was Joey Gallo. “Sober, he was nothing, but drunk he would blow your head off.” That’s how Pete the Greek described Carmine “Sonny” DiBiase, the Colombo crime family hitman who’d been terrorizing Manhattan’s Little Italy since he was a kid. After beating and robbing a local tailor and doing time in reformatory, Sonny set up operations at The Mayfair Boys Civic and Social Club, an illegal poolroom where he shot and killed his best friend on Christmas day . . . A prime suspect of this and other crimes, Sonny went on the lam and off the grid for seven years. He then surrendered himself to police, was tried for murder and sentenced to death. But after a second trial, he walked away a free man—free to kill again. Joey “Crazy Joe” Gallo and his President Street mob waged a deadly Mafia civil war with the Colombo crime family, and in particular, Carmine “the Snake” Persico. A contract was put out for Gallo and his gang. And on that fateful night of April 7, 1972, in a Little Italy restaurant, Gallo was assassinated . . . by Carmine “Sonny” DiBiasi.. This is the true story of who really whacked Crazy Joey Gallo on that fateful night of April 7, 1972.

North Eastern Reporter

North Eastern Reporter
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1084
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3587672
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis North Eastern Reporter by :

Willem's Field

Willem's Field
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780743245630
ISBN-13 : 0743245636
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Willem's Field by : Melinda Haynes

What are the limitations of what we do and don't know about our hearts? Oprah Book Club author Melinda Haynes, hailed as "the real thing, a true artist, a genuine writer" (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) for her bestselling debut, Mother of Pearl, returns with a tender, heartbreaking, and occasionally hilarious novel set in the 1970s. Willem Fremont has spent his adult life held tight inside the clenched fist of panic disorder. Determined to break the pattern -- even as he reaches his twilight years -- Willem returns to his childhood home in Purvis, Mississippi, where he believes the solution lies. There he discovers his father's acreage in the hands of the idiosyncratic Till family. Eilene, mother of Sonny and Bruno and "no bigger than a dress form," pretends to be deaf as a way of dealing with her grown boys -- each of whom suffers from inertia. Sonny, hugely fat, perennially unemployed, and looking for love, is building a shrimp boat in his mother's landlocked backyard. Bruno, who has returned from Vietnam with a spinal injury and wearing a brace, escapes into the glossy pages of old National Geographics while his wife, Leah, tries to find a small measure of comfort in the day-to-day tending of their farm. From these unsettled lives comes a story of reconciliation against all odds and a vision of rekindled love as well as a compassionate portrait of small-town life that celebrates the unusual, embraces the unwanted, and opens its arms to all lost souls in search of a home. Steeped in the traditions of great southern storytellers like Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner, Willem's Field is nonetheless a wholly original and vividly imaginative novel by a brilliant and assured writer.

Cape Verdean-American Vietnam War Veterans of New Bedford, Massachusetts

Cape Verdean-American Vietnam War Veterans of New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 64
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ISBN-10 : 9780557176847
ISBN-13 : 0557176840
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Cape Verdean-American Vietnam War Veterans of New Bedford, Massachusetts by : Jose A. Tavares Dos Anjos

This is a compilation of Cape Verdean-Americans from the New Bedford, Massachusetts area who were Vietnam War veterans.

"I Heard You Paint Houses"

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Publisher : Steerforth
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781586421557
ISBN-13 : 1586421557
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis "I Heard You Paint Houses" by : Charles Brandt

"I Heard You Paint Houses" will soon be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese. The working title for the movie is "The Irishman". The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than twenty-five hits for the mob, and for his friend Hoffa. Sheeran learned to kill in the U.S. Army, where he saw an astonishing 411 days of active combat duty in Italy during World War II. After returning home he became a hustler and hit man, working for legendary crime boss Russell Bufalino. Eventually he would rise to a position of such prominence that in a RICO suit then-U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani would name him as one of only two non-Italians on a list of 26 top mob figures. When Bufalino ordered Sheeran to kill Hoffa, he did the deed, knowing that if he had refused he would have been killed himself. Sheeran's important and fascinating story includes new information on other famous murders including those of Joey Gallo and JFK, and provides rare insight to a chapter in American history. Charles Brandt has written a page-turner that has become a true crime classic.

Wiseguy

Wiseguy
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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781982129903
ISBN-13 : 1982129905
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Wiseguy by : Nicholas Pileggi

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds…with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. “Nonstop...absolutely engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review). Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob—from one who’s lived it.