Jerry Cooper, of "The Predators," launches a somewhat less than legitimate lingerie chain and has successfully managed to keep his honest lawyer son out of the business and away from his mob associates until he finds himself in need of a lawyer and his son insists on getting involved.

Abandoned by his father, Jack "Lucky" Riordan, an illegitimate son of Howard Hughes, returns to Las Vegas to work his way up as the head of security for one of Sin City's most notorious casinos.

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Carpetbaggers comes a novel of passion, intrigue, power, and money. With 11 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, The Dream Merchants provides a fascinating look at the early days of the world's most glamorous industry Hollywood. It was the latest "gold rush" when ambitious, if unscrupulous, men and women flooded California to turn cinematic dreams into reality, regardless of the moral...

Joe Crown is a poor boy from Brooklyn, with a burning ambition to write. His journey to the big time is tough and hard-edge-it takes him from the world of gangsters, drug dealers, whores and pimps, in which he comes of age, to the glamour of Hollywood, the dolce vita of Europe, and all the glitter; self-indulgence and easy sex that comes in the wake of success.

"From the author of 'The New York Times' #1 bestselling novel 'The Carpetbaggers' comes a revealing saga that exposes the shocking, merciless world of the American automobile industry. Angelo Perino lives life on the bleeding edge of speed and success -- a race car driver of humble origins who dominates on and off the track. Loren Hardeman is the ruthless patriarch of an auto empire, fighting to keep his family from self-destructing under the weight...