A guy goes to Las Vegas for a holiday. In a matter of hours he gets drunk, gets mugged, and gets dumped by his wife. Things could get worse, and do, in this new crime novel from Charlie Stella. With bravura, alternating brutality with humor and high-octane action with virtuoso tough-guy dialogue, Stella crafts his story of Charlie Pellecchia, whose unwitting entanglement with New York mobster Nicky Cuccia plops him in the path of the DEA, FBI, and Las Vegas police. Law enforcement may find Charlie awkwardly in its way, but elsewhere – in deluxe casino hotel suites, at deserted construction sites, on quiet residential streets – a bodybuilding punk looking to be made, a professional killer, a mob chief's double-dealing accountant, and a pair of Vietnamese gangbangers are all trying to put Charlie permanently out of the way. All because he broke a wiseguy's jaw. Add to the mix hookers with felonious kinks, a cop deeply troubled by his wife's infidelity, a ham-fisted redneck with vengeance on his mind, and some bad faith between a Brooklyn crime family and the Russian mob. Things go down tough in this gritty underworld thriller where the name of the game is Charlie Opera

Brand new stories by: Ken Bruen, Eoin Colfer, Jason Starr, Laura Lippman, Olen Steinhauer, Peter Spiegelman, Kevin Wignall, Jim Fusilli, John Rickards, Patrick J. Lambe, Charlie Stella, Ray Banks, James O. Born, Sarah Weinman, Pat Mullan, Gary Phillips, Craig McDonald, Duane Swierczynski, Reed Farrel Coleman, and others. Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts shine a light on the dark streets of Dublin. Dublin Noir features an awe-inspiring cast of writers who between them have won all major mystery and crime-fiction awards. This collection introduces secret corners of a fascinating city and surprise assaults on the "Celtic Tiger" of modern Irish prosperity

It’s the summer of 1973. Disco is King and the New York mob is at the peak of its power. John Albano, an out of work construction worker with child support and rent payments he can’t keep up with, is driving for a local car service when his quick hands and honorable nature place him in the middle of a perfect storm of danger. He’s just trying to make ends meet with a weekend stint counting heads and collecting the take at illegal screenings of the recently banned porno film, Deep Throat, for Mafioso Eddie Vento. But a devious ex-wife, her more devious ex-husband, the wiseguys behind the film (including one obnoxious wannabe with a frenzied beef for Albano), the Fleetwood Eldorado used in the opening scene of the porno film and a host of cops (both good and bad including the deranged one Albano punched out) snowball into an often humorous, sometimes violent, action packed trip back to the year Willie Mays hit his last home run. This is the world of Johnny Porno

Долгожданный отпуск обернулся для четы Пеллеккья трагедией. Лиза всего лишь отвесила пощечину распустившему руки посетителю бара, однако этим конфликт не был исчерпан. Ее муж Чарли в порыве гнева сломал наглецу челюсть. Этот опрометчивый поступок сделал Чарли живой мишенью нью-йоркской мафии. Жизнь некогда счастливой семейной пары превратилась в кошмар, полный насилия, страха и отчаяния…

Джимми Манджино, прозванный за необычайную физическую силу Качок, – стопроцентный боевик-гангстер. Только что освободившийся из тюрьмы, он вновь принимается за дела. Его мечта – вступить в мафию, стать своим в криминальном клане Виньери. Он готов на все за право быть членом «семьи» и поэтому не брезгует ни шантажом, ни насилием, ни убийством. Джимми Качку противостоят два честных копа – детективы нью-йоркской полиции Алекс Павлик и Джон Денафриа. Они ведут поединок с по-настоящему опасным, хитрым и жестоким преступником