Harold Robbins
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
Born into a family of modest means and respectability, Danny Fisher was gradually driven downward into the world of crime, racketeering and poverty. His bitterness, his homesickness over the loss of the house in Brooklyn that was given to him for his eighth birthday, and his feud with his harsh father, pulled him one way; his natural decency and his love for a sweet Italian girl, Nellie Petito, pulled him another. Danny was a boxer - a sensational
...2) Blood royal
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But, she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale wedding, she threw herself down a flight of stairs when she was pregnant with a future heir to the throne. Suicide attempts, illicit affairs, and paranoia that there were plots by the Royals to kill her became...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Harold Robbins's historical novel of the twentieth century, The Predators, is the defining work of the author's spectacular career.
The Predators combines in one novel the finest attributes of A Stone for Danny Fisher and The Carpetbaggers. It will take you on a wild odyssey through the gaudy and reckless life of Jerry Cooper-his struggles to survive in Depression-era New York, his years in Europe during the Second World War, his friends, his lovers,...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Luz had nightheat, the sensuous quality in a woman that makes men ache with desire. Nick loved and lusted for her the first time he saw her. But, what he didn't know was that Luz had secrets-that beneath the glamour and sex appeal was a woman determined to turn her back on wealth and challenge a corrupt political system. Even if doing so meant her life.
Nick started out dirt poor-as a child, he survived the war-torn frozen hell of the siege of Leningrad...
6) The piranhas
Author
Series
Publisher
Curley Pub
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Friction. Mafia turmoil. Hollywood snakes and Wall Street vipers. That's what Jed Stephens has got. And, a body...Or, he would, if a certain species of vicious little fish couldn't strip a corpse bare in under a minute.
Jed should have known better, when his shady cousin insisted they take a trip down the Amazon, to see the sights and check out the local color... Jed can't say he's surprised when their scenic Amazonian vacation turns into an enormous...
7) Never enough
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
David Shea, a high-powered Wall Street investment banker, has a past that won’t be denied. As a teen, he led a group of four friends to beat a local bully to death and let someone else take the rap. David has managed to avoid every bad break, but in a life of big money payoffs, potentially lethal pitfalls, and legal wrangling, fate is bound to get the upper hand at least once.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
©1981
Language
English
Description
With the help of a German general, Tanya, the beautiful widow of a Polish count, survives the hardships of World War II only to find equally dangerous the glamorous, extravagant world of French high fashion into which she and her two daughters make their way.
14) Spellbinder
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
©1982
Language
English
Description
"Preacher" is a young man who reaches the word of God--and turns his self-chosen vocation into a multimillion-dollar business that makes him first a celebrity, then an evangelical superstar, and ultimately a martyr.