The corruption of Jeffrey Blaine begins on the night of his daughter's eighteenth birthday party. That so many of the city's elite have gathered to pay tribute to this man's teenage daughter is testament to his stature as one of New York's most powerful financiers. Yet Blaine himself is bored, chafing, hungry for a fresh new challenge.
While the party is in full swing, an underage woman gets drunk and then is raped by one of Blaine's guests. In the confusion that follows, Blaine agrees not to call the police. His complicity is witnessed by a notorious gossip columnist -- making him vulnerable to a scandal that could destroy him.
Enter Chet Fiore, a young man of shadowy provenance who arrives at the party and immediately sets things in order. Where did he come from? Why is he there? Blaine doesn't know. But Fiore's grace under pressure commands Blaine's attention; and what he eventually learns about Fiore -- that he is a rising figure in organized crime -- both terrifies and energizes him. Fiore reappears early the next morning at Blaine's country house and assures him there won't be a scandal. The gossip columnist "has been taken care of." It won't be long before Blaine learns what Fiore wants in exchange for making the problem go away.
Jeffrey Blaine's straight-arrow life will never be the same. In one sense, he is being blackmailed; in another, Chet Fiore is exactly what Jeffrey Blaine has been looking for. The tempestuous relationship between these two powerful men will take several unexpected detours in what turns out to be a deadly dance of money and corruption that pits organized crime against the glittering world of high society and Wall Street finance.

House of Lords

Literature & Fiction

ROSENBERG, Philip

Contemporary

Harper

Wealthy and powerful but unsatisfied, Wall Street broker Jeffrey Blaine is hungry for an opportunity to take his life somewhere it's never been before -- an opportunity that arrives with four young mobsters at his daughter's star-studded eighteenth-birthday celebration. When a brutal outrage is perpetrated before the eyes of important media figures, a stranger steps forward to rescue Blaine's good name. But his mysterious "benefactor" -- the brilliant and coldly calculating Chet Fiore -- demands a payment for his intervention that would pull Blaine past the boundaries of everything that's legal and moral.
But Jeffrey Blaine didn't get where he is by being anyone's pawn, and he's soon turning a bad situation to his advantage. But to do so, he has to wade into very dark and turbulent waters, finding untapped strength in a frightening new "partnership" that could ultimately cost him much more than he can possibly afford ...

Genre Fiction

HarperTorch

A Black student takes young Ophelia Jones hostage and is killed by a Black cop, but the girl dies of asphyxiation, igniting the fury of the city and setting a corrupt political machine in motion

Tygers Of Wrath

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Tygers of Wrath

St.Martin's

A Black student takes young Ophelia Jones hostage and is killed by a Black cop, but the girl dies of asphyxiation, igniting the fury of the city and setting a corrupt political machine in motion

Tygers of Wrath: A Novel

United States

St Martins Pr

A blood-chilling true-crime account from former district attorney and New York Times bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum 
 BADGE OF THE ASSASSIN 
 They were just doing their jobs -- serving and protecting -- when the unimaginable happened: Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini became moving targets, ambushed from behind at a Manhattan housing project. Jones lay dead in a pool of his own blood, and Piagentini lived long enough to beg for his life -- before he was riddled with twenty-two bullet holes by members of a deadly hit squad hell-bent on taking out the men and women of law enforcement. 
 Masterfully building suspense on every page, Robert K. Tanenbaum reconstructs the vicious murders of Jones and Piagentini and the manhunt for the suspects, and brings to life his courtroom prosecution of the killers -- revealing the triumphs and failures of America's legal system.

The Badge of the Assassin

TANENBAUM, Robert K.

BERKLEY

They were just doing their jobs - serving and protecting - when the unimaginable happened: Officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini became moving targets, ambushed from behind at a Manhattan housing project. Jones lay dead in a pool of his own blood, and Piagentini lived long enough to beg for his life - before he was riddled with twenty-two bullet holes by members of a deadly hit squad hell-bent on taking out the men and women of law enforcement. Masterfully building suspense on every page, Robert K. Tanenbaum reconstructs the vicious murders of Jones and Piagentini and the manhunt for the suspects, and brings to life his courtroom prosecution of the killers - revealing the triumphs and failures of America's legal system.

Badge of the Assassin

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

E.P.Dutton

An essential book on understanding radicals.

The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism

British & Irish

Harvard University Press

For almost a year Detective Inspector Frank Hovannes and his partner Lieutenant Ernie Fleming, track Big Sallie Manzano, the East Side boss trying desperately to tie him to a hijacking and murder ring.  Slowly his stability begins to crumble and in despair he confesses to Fleming, The only way we'll ever get Manzano is just the two of us go out and hit him.  But they never get a chance.  When Fleming is gunned down by a trigger-happy thug, Hovannes knows he's alone against the mob his partner is dead and the Department does not give a damn.  He forms his own undercover unit.  Finally the conflicts private obsessions and hatreds explode in a night of butchery.  Yet far more horrifying than the bloodletting is the ultimate realization that there is little difference between law and order and anarchy, no difference at all between the hunters, and the hunted.  There are no winners in this brilliant and disturbing novel, but the biggest losers are the man and women who follow their consciences.

Contract on Cherry Street: A novel

Crowell

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Books by ROSENBERG, Philip

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House of Lords

House of Lords

Tygers Of Wrath

Tygers of Wrath

Tygers of Wrath: A Novel

Tygers of Wrath

The Badge of the Assassin

Badge of the Assassin

The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism

Contract on Cherry Street: A novel