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If Tomorrow Comes is a 1985 crime fiction novel by American author Sidney Sheldon.It is a story portraying an ordinary woman who is framed by the Mafia, her subsequent quest for vengeance towards them and her later life as a con-artist.
Merry Mansfield is a free-spirited con artist who assists mobsters in abducting defaulting fugitives by rear-ending their cars on the highway. Unfortunately, after completing one such abduction on the Overseas Highway, Merry discovers that she and her accomplice "Zeto" have snatched the wrong person: Lane Coolman, a Los Angeles talent manager on his way to Key West to supervise a live ...
Mob Girl: A Woman's Life in the Underworld is 1992 non-fiction book written by Teresa Carpenter about mafia informant and mob moll Arlyne Brickman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was published by Simon & Schuster .
Critical reception for Innocence was mixed.Publishers Weekly's Stephanie Feldman has listed the book as one of her "10 Creepiest Books." [1] The Boston Globe and Library Journal both praised Innocence, with The Boston Sunday Globe writing, "Borrowing classic ingredients from the genres of horror films and popular literature, Mendelsohn has concocted a coming-of-age tale about a Manhattan girl ...
The Real Lolita, by Sarah Weinman Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is a cultural touchstone, repulsing readers with a story of child abduction and assault, yet keeping them turning the page anyway ...
[5] Alpana Chowdhury of Daily News and Analysis mentioned, "From the choice of the women they have portrayed, to the racy style of writing, everything is calculated to make the book a page-turner." [ 6 ] Kankana Basu of The Hindu felt, " Mafia Queens , by virtue of its very stark simplicity is a revelation, a rare treat for the discerning lover ...
The novel received varying reviews. In Time magazine, R.Z. Sheppard said "This posthumously published novel by the author of The Godfather has more tasty twists than a plate of fusilli", and "this deft and passionate last novel by the Balzac of the Mafia", [4] while Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times "Fact is, the more I think about it, the more this book gives me agita.
The Client is a 1993 legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham.It is Grisham's fourth novel and follows the story of an 11-year-old boy, Mark Sway, who becomes entangled in a mob-related legal case after witnessing the suicide of a lawyer who knows the location of a murdered U.S. senator’s body.