Bøger af Charlie Stella

TOMMY RED Tommy Dalton's ex-wife is on an honesty kick with their daughter, Alysha. She tells her that her dad kills people. Which, of course, he does. But that's not the kind of information he wants shared with his kids. Particularly now that he's working on a new job. Dominick Farase, ready to testify against the Cirelli family, needs silencing. An ex-cop spots him and lets Gasper Cirelli know where to find him. Not a difficult job for Tommy Red. But the Cirellis get nervous about this one, and decide to remove all evidence of the hit-including Tommy. More hits are called, and some of them get sloppy. A couple of FBI agents get involved. Frank Cirelli, Gasper's son and acting head of the family, has to make some tough decisions. Sacrifices must be made. But as far as Tommy is concerned, the Cirellis make their biggest mistake when they fail in their efforts to take him out. A fatal mistake. Now he's after the family--still trying to keep his daughter out of it, too, of course-because when you threaten Tommy or his family, the only response is retribution.

Everybody's out to get Johnny Porno! It's the New York City in the 1970's and John Albano is trying to get by. But they've taken his union card and work is hard to come by. He's hired to pick up the cash at showings of the recently banned Deep Throat, which is how he meets Eddie Vento, the local mobster in charge of distribution, who wants him to go to work for him. And Nick Santorra, Vento's loud-mouthed driver, who just loves to ride Albano every chance he gets, and knows how to hold a grudge. And then there's his ex-wife Nancy, now re-married for the third time, still demanding her child support. Nancy is also still seeing her first husband, Louis, a hustler who looks a lot like Duane Allman. But Louis has got a new girlfriend, Holly, and this drives Nancy crazy, which she naturally takes out on Albano. Albano even has a problem he doesn't know about, a drugged out ex-cop named Billy Hastings. Convinced that John is trying to put the make on his wife at a bar one evening, Hastings takes a swing at Albano but John drops him. Hastings is caught on tape starting the fight and he's forced into retirement, but he knows who's to blame for everything-and Albano is going to pay. At the same time, they're all being watched by detectives Neil Levin and Steven Brice from Internal Affairs, who may or may not be on the same side. And Special Agent Darrel Stebenow, who is watching out for Brigit Malone, Vento's undercover girlfriend. And Lt. Det. Sean Kelly, who is watching out for himself. At the center of it all is Johnny Porno-god, how he hates that name!-a guy who's just trying to stay ahead of the hustle and make a living. Just trying to stay alive.

THE VOICES IN MY HEADCharles is born into the American Catholic Dream. Father is cruel to be kind ("Charles was good this week. Charles was bad this week."), pitting him against his sister in the battle for affection. Momma, in her native Italian language, calls him piccolo Ges├╣ (Little Jesus). In his personal battle of good versus evil, Charles turns to daydreams. Can he be saved? Seeking redemption requires more than good intentions. It requires luck too, the kind that places the exact right person in the exact right time and place. It requires love that has nothing to do with money and everything to do with finding a soul that has been petrified by lifelong emotional rejection.A woman to the rescue? Or is the voice of a saint that does the trick? Or maybe it''s the voice of young political activist, or is it the voice of the Archangel Metatron?Little Jesus tells his tale in the second person voice of "You" ... just one of the many voices in his head.

Some crimes cry for vengeance, like the one that washes Rachel Wilson up on a beach, her head bald, her body mutilated. It's a cry that Agnes Lynn, a hooker gone straight and Rachel's long- time friend, can't ignore. Steely and resourceful, with a determination impervious to fear, Agnes aims to settle scores with pimps and porn kings-and unwittingly, blindly, sets herself in the path of the formidable mob boss Viktor Timkin.What she doesn't plan on, though, are crooked cops, a Saudi weapons dealer, gangland assassins, a turf war, and redfella deviants. What she doesn't plan on could get her killed.

EDDIE'S WORLD Eddie Senta is in the middle of a midlife crisis. His wife's biological clock is ticking and she wants a baby. She also wants him to start making some money. And his career as a word processor is going nowhere. Even his old gig as a runner for the mob holds no excitement for him anymore. Eddie feels trapped. So when an old friend shows up with an opportunity to make an easy score with a quick robbery, he takes it. It's more the thrill than anything that appeals to him. But the robbery's a bust, and now he's involved in a triple murder case with the FBI after him, a crazy killer under the federal witness protection on his ass, and two New York detectives and a Russian mobster not far behind. Eddie's life just got interesting.