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(0)Richard Condon
Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
c2003, c1959
Physical Desc
xiii, 311 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sergeant Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret-even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon-a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors' signal. Now he's been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate for US...
Author
Series
Prizzi series volume 1
Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Charley Partanna works as a hitman for the Prizzis, New York's most dangerous crime family. When he meets Irene Walker, an LA-based tax consultant, it's pretty much love at first sight. But Irene also moonlights as a hit woman-and had a hand in a big-money heist in Vegas. Now Charley has been told that she's got to go. Faced with divided loyalties, he must make a choice-between the only family he's ever known and the woman he loves.
Author
Series
Prizzi series volume 2
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful blonde turns his head, a mob enforcer risks losing his neck Charley Partanna sits in his office, quietly rigging an election. As the chief executioner for the Prizzi family, he has taken time out of his busy schedule of cold-blooded murder to ensure that New York reelects its mayor, and that dirty money continues to flow his way. When he isn't killing snitches or stealing votes, Partanna goes to night school, but tonight, his homework...
Author
Series
Prizzi series volume 4
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., b&w, double sided ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career