Russian Organized Crime

He’s everything she swore she didn’t want—and the only man who can save her. Leonid Markovich is trouble in a three-piece suit. Handsome, ruthless, and tied to the New York Syndicate, he’s the kind of man Sheridan Kincaid promised herself she’d never fall for. But when he risks his life to save her six-year-old niece from the Mexican cartel, she starts to wonder if maybe—just maybe—he’s more than a heartless criminal. Maybe he has a conscience. Maybe he has a heart. Maybe he’s not an asshole after all. Then he proves her wrong. Leonid doesn’t do favors. He does business....

Welcome to the shadowy realm of organized crime, where power, money, and violence reign supreme. In Shadow Syndicates: The Dark World of Organized Crime, delve into the histories of the most notorious crime syndicates across the globe, from the Italian Mafia and Russian Mafia to the Yakuza, Mexican Drug Cartels, and many more. This comprehensive book offers an in-depth exploration of how these organizations have shaped the course of history through bloodshed and corruption. Learn about the Italian Mafia's deep-rooted influence in politics and business, the rise of the Russian Mafia in the ...

Some girls get diamonds. I got an arranged marriage to the Russian mafia’s grumpiest billionaire. My parents call it an alliance. Translation: I’m being traded to settle a debt. I knew him from when we were young, but he’s changed. Not just by getting way taller and filling out in all the right places. But now his innocent teasing has turned to intense eye contact and filthy promises. But it’s all fake. Fake marriage, fake kisses, and fake feelings. He was definitely not supposed to knock me up before the ink on our marriage contract dried. And I wasn’t supposed to get pregnant ...

Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western listeners can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, and the end of the Soviet experiment.

He should be dead. But “The Cat” always lands on his feet. After a brutal fall into the Mediterranean leaves him maimed and alone, criminal mastermind Giorgio Cattoretti crawls back to life with nothing but his rage, his cunning, and the burning need to reclaim what was taken from him. Hiding out on the island of Cyprus, Cattoretti begins to rebuild—laying low, dodging Russian mafia assassins, and preparing the most audacious comeback in criminal history. Piece by piece, he assembles a plan so bold it borders on madness: a heist that will shake the art world to its core. But as his ...

When criminal mastermind Giorgio Cattoretti successfully pulls off the largest art heist in history--the spectacular theft of 15 Picasso paintings from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia--U.S Secret Service Agent Elaine Brogan is sent there on a dangerous undercover mission to capture Cattoretti before the Russians do. Note: This book was previously titled: Lust, Money & Murder, Book 5 - On Russian Soil "Fast-paced and packed with unpredictable twists and turns written in Mike Wells' "unputdownable" style, this fifth installment of the Lust, Money & Murder series delivers in ...

A bratva pakhan who refuses to feel. A blood-debt husband forced to his side. One marriage neither can escape. Nikolas Zakharov became pakhan six months ago, and the old guard is waiting for him to fail. He doesn't touch people. He doesn't feel. He can't afford either, not with his father's doctrine still running the empire from the grave. Adrian Decker is a Boston EMT who inherited his dead father's blood debt to the Bratva and got sold as a husband to pay it off. He's never been with a man, never belonged anywhere. Now the coldest man in Boston feels like the first place he's ever been ...

The threat of global Russian organized crime. includes over 70 new photos and a chart of the Russian "Thieves code". Expanded text.

They sent him to negotiate my surrender. He became my most dangerous weapon instead. Katerina Every family in this city wants what my dead husband left behind. His territory. His connections. His throne. None of them sees me as a threat. Then the Valenti syndicate sends Roman Vasari to negotiate my surrender. He expects a grieving widow, bound by weakness. Instead, he gets me. Roman is smart, ruthless, and dangerously patient. But somewhere between the negotiations and the war, he stops working for them and starts fighting for me. The most dangerous man at the table chooses my side. Now ...

Instant New York Times bestseller! From the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson, a thriller that scales astonishing heights when a newcomer to the Manhattan art world executes a grand theft. "The Picasso Heist is ripped-from-the-headlines relevant." —USA Today A $100 million painting...

I kidnapped her to break her. Now, I'll do whatever it takes to protect her. In this business, you cannot afford to lose control. No emotions. No weakness. I've worked too damn hard building my mob empire to let one feisty little girl ruin everything. But Bella refuses to fall in line. I've pushed my prisoner to her limits, and yet she will. Not. Break. She takes every savage kiss.... Every cruel touch.... And asks me if that's all I have to offer. Breaking her down will require breaking a rule of my own: Never, ever fall in love.

Maxim I am a man who plans his every move. I arranged this marriage so I can get the money and power my father lost. And I always get what I want. I’m not interested in anything as sweet as love. My plan is simple — take over my city and claim my bride. Except Maria is not interested in playing by my rules. Maria I’ve been keeping my head down, playing the good girl my whole life. Now I’m thrown in the deep end of a mafia war. Maxim is nothing like the monstrous brute I was expecting. He makes me feel alive again. We barely says our vows before all hell breaks loose. And once I ...

He didn't buy me. He priced me — and then made sure I was worth more to him than I was to anyone else. My father owed the Nikitin family a debt he could never repay, so he paid it with me. I walked down that aisle rehearsing the only rules that might keep me safe: say nothing, want nothing, stay too quiet and useful to notice. Matvei Nikitin noticed anyway. Now I live on his floor of the tallest tower in the city, wear a ring that makes his enemies careful, and lie awake with exits I no longer want to use. He never raises his voice. He's never had to — the men who cross him simply stop ...

As a detective, I went undercover to bring them down. Now three handsome bratva lieutenants want to keep me. Get in. Gather intel on their empire. Get out. That was the job. I walked into a Brighton Beach matchmaking operation as a bride candidate… and walked straight into the inner circle of one of New York's most ruthless Russian crime families. The pakhan decided I'm staying. More like kidnapped. Three of his lieutenants are making sure I don't leave: Kirill — cold, calculated, the one who watches me and sees through every lie. Including mine. Dima — brutal and honest, the family's...

When the U.S. Department of Justice permanently disbands the Avenging Angel task force, the books on the operation may close, but former Russian assassin Anya Burinkova knows the real assignment is far from over. Although her efforts alongside Special Agent Gwynn Davis and Supervisory Special Agent Ray White left the Russian mafia bleeding out on the very soil they once commanded, the dragon that is the Bratva is far from beaten.

I was born to inherit the family business. Father braided darkness into my soul before I spoke my first word. Adalina Martinelli is collateral. At first, I take her because her father is in debt to mine. But after one night together, she becomes my prisoner. Locked in a gilded cage, I set forth to transform her. Father wants me to marry, and I've found the perfect wife. She may be younger than me... She may be the daughter of our enemies... She may need stern convincing... But I will bend and break her until she agrees to my twisted guarantee of safety. Tropes: Age Gap, Captive Heroine, ...

An unwilling pawn in a game of survival, she must choose between the life she wants and the man she can’t resist in this new adult mafia romance for fans of forced proximity, he falls first, and dark romance. Taryn I’m a New York mob princess, and every step of my life has been planned for...

A LOVE STORY WITH A BODY COUNT Trained by the best in the business, Emmet Streeter is nobody’s babysitter, until his mentor's secret daughter needs a bodyguard. She's everything he doesn’t want: mouthy, obstinate, temperamental, and untouchable. So why can't he keep his hands off her? The unwanted daughter of a hitman, Bailey Monroe has kept a low profile until Emmet barges into her life. He’s a killer sent to protect her from one of their own. A carbon copy of the father she hates, Bailey shouldn’t trust him, shouldn't sleep with him, and definitely shouldn't fall for his cold eyes...

With the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Russia emerged from its rubble as a country looking to re-establish itself on the world stage of geopolitics. Capitalism, or the West’s brand of capitalism, was an option but one that members of the Communist Party hardly embraced. In its place, the underworld and the upper world merged, creating an oligarchy that has extended its tentacles across the globe. From Australia to Africa, thru North and South America, and Europe, this Russian oligarchy has enriched itself and members of the Communist Party through financial chicanery, wrongful ...

I’ve spent six months embedding myself in the Ivanov Bratva. I wear their clothes, drink their vodka, and do their dirty work. I thought I was the perfect liar. I was wrong. Kirill Ivanov, the family’s ruthless Pakhan, knew I was a fed from day one. He didn't put a bullet in my head. He put me in his bed. Now I’m trapped in a deadly game of chicken. He’s feeding me intel to take down his rivals, and I’m giving him my body to keep my cover. I tell myself I’m playing him. But when he looks at me with those cold, knowing eyes, I realize the terrifying truth. I’m not the one ...