Kill the Irishman. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1998 book, To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia
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To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia
Rick Porrello, 1998
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Jonathan Hensleigh, 2011

In 1960 Danny Greene and his childhood friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen at the Cleveland docks. Nardi gets him work as an enforcer for Hungarian Jewish loan shark Shondor Birns, and later helps pitch a deal to Mafia Capo Jack Licavoli: Greene will force the city’s garbage haulers to join the union Licavoli controls.


Hunter Killer. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 2011 book, Firing Point
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Firing Point
George Wallace, Don Keith, 2011
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Donovan Marsh, 2018

The U.S. Los Angeles class submarine USS Tampa Bay vanishes while shadowing the Russian Akula-class submarine Konek in the Arctic. At the same time, a Navy SEAL team under the command of Lieutenant Bill Beaman is sent in to discreetly observe the Russian naval base in Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast, but their mission is swiftly complicated when Martinelli, the team’s new designated marksman recruit, is rendered injured during the HALO drop.


Scooby-Doo. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Scooby-Doo
Suzanne Weyn, 2002
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Raja Gosnell, 2002

The members of Mystery, Inc. solve the case of the Luna Ghost. At the airport, they are reunited with the rest of Mystery, Inc. and learn that Fred has become a popular author, Velma works for NASA, and Daphne has undertaken martial arts to avoid kidnappers.


Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Suzanne Weyn, 2004
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Raja Gosnell, 2004

Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo attend the opening of an exhibition at the Coolsonian Criminology Museum commemorating their past solved cases with monster costumes on display. Scooby and Shaggy, after overhearing the rest of the gang criticizing their tendency to bumble every operation, resolve to better themselves and act like real detectives.