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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 ...
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.
[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 same description of the novel is found in Desmond Morris's reference work The Book of Ages. [4] A survey of books for women's studies courses describes it as a "tongue-in-cheek erotic novel". [5] Books focused on the history of erotic literature such as Michael Perkins' The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature also so classify Lolita. [6]
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.
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 ...
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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.