The Dolphin People
9 best books like The Dolphin People (Torsten Krol): The Valachi Papers (aka The Canary That Sang), Marilyn, Field Gray, Rosa, The Pale House, Nicholas Dane, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Serpico, Sunset and Sawdust
The Valachi Papers (aka The Canary That Sang)
The First Inside Account of the Mafia
In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos,...
| Author | Norman Mailer |
| ISBN | 0399514139 |
Well, I am glad I read the book. There are so many books written about Marilyn, so picking one is quite difficult. What I like about this one is that Mailer doesn't go in with a particular bias. He relies heavily on two earlier biographies, one by Fred Guiles entitled Norma Jean and one by Maurice Zolotow...
| Author | Philip Kerr |
| ISBN | 0399157417 |
Philip Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler, the realpolitik of vintage John le Carré, and the dark moral vision of Graham Greene.
Striding across Europe through the killing fields of three decades-from riot-torn Berlin in 1931 to Adenauer's Germany in 1954, awash...
| Author | Jonathan Rabb |
| ISBN | 0307336190 |
In the last days of the First World War, socialist revolution swept across Germany, sending Kaiser Wilhelm into exile and transforming Berlin into a battleground. But for Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his young assistant, Hans Fichte, the revolution is a mere inconvenience. Four women...
| Author | Luke McCallin |
| ISBN | 0425263061 |
As the Nazi war machine is pushed back across Europe, defeat has become inevitable. But there are those who seek to continue the fight beyond the battlefield.
German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has just been reassigned to the Feldjaegerkorps—a new branch of the military...
| Author | Melvin Burgess |
| ISBN | 1842701819 |
His most substantial book to date, this compelling story of a teenager caught in a corrupt 1980s Care Home is a powerful study of a particularly highly-charged and distressing subject. Handled with great sensitivity and engrossing narrative drive, it is an important addition to the understanding...
| Author | Eberhard Bethge |
| ISBN | 0800628446 |
Just finished this; it's a beast but was surprised at how readable it was. The fact that the author, Eberhard Bethge, was Bonhoeffer's student at the underground seminary, a close friend and co-conspirator of Bonhoeffer makes the book come alive. Particularly striking is the story of Bonhoeffer's...
| Author | Peter Maas |
| ISBN | 0060738189 |
The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called...
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 0375719229 |
In the middle of a cyclone, beautiful, red-haired Sunset Jones shoots her husband Pete dead when he tries to beat and rape her. To Camp Rapture’s general consternation, Sunset’s mother-in-law arranges for her to take over from Pete as town constable. As if that weren’t hard enough to swallow...
