Thomas Dunne Books imprint: 1256 books
McCarthy's Bar
A Journey of Discovery In Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
"It was half past five in the morning as I lurched through the front door of the B&B. Mrs. O'Sullivan appeared just in time to see me pause to admire the luminous Virgin holy water stand with integral night-light, and knock it off the wall. Politely declining the six rounds of ham sandwiches...
Hail to the Chin
Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
New York Times bestseller
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author and famous minor television personality John Hodgman
One of my dad’s favorite jokes about getting older was: “I went out for coffee when I was twenty-one and when I got back I was fifty-eight!”
I...
Last of the Dandies
The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count D'Orsay
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
From his first appearance in London in 1821 until his death in Paris in 1852, Count D'Orsay dominated and scandalized the whole of European society. For three decades he was the ultimate arbiter in matters of taste, style and fashion -- what D'Orsay wore today, society would wear tomorrow.
He...
The Scariest Place in the World
A Marine Returns to North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridgelines and mountains to sound Taps for a generation. It's been 15 years since Brady first wrote of Korea in The Coldest War, drawing raves from Walter Cronkite and The New York Times,...
by James Brady
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
United States Marines, for more than two centuries, have been among the world's fiercest and most admired of warriors. They have fought from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan and Iraq, in famous battles become bone and sinew of American lore. But why do Marines fight? Why fight so well? Why run...
Literary Feuds
A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2002
A submarine's deadliest antagonist is another sub. Some of our most illustrious writers have tried their best to sink their enemies, using all the weapons at their command-wit, humor, sarcasm, invective, and the occasional right cross to the jaw. In these eight profiles of quarrels between famous...
The Invention of Murder
How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
"Superb... Flanders's convincing and smart synthesis of the evolution of an official police force, fictional detectives, and real-life cause célèbres will appeal to devotees of true crime and detective fiction alike." -Publishers Weekly, starred review
In this fascinating exploration...
Don't Go to Jail!
Saul Goodman's Guide to Keeping the Cuffs Off
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Lawyer Saul Goodman of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad offers his own particular brand of funny, down-to-earth legal advice.
Got the long arm of the law around your neck?
Does Lady Justice have her eye on you?
Were you set up at a lineup?
Saul Goodman can help!
There are some crazy...
Exile on Front Street
My Life as a Hells Angel . . . and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
I hadn't planned on writing a book when I quit the Hells Angels.
After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As president of the high-profile Ventura charter of the club, he had been the yin to Sonny Barger’s yang. Barger was the reckless figurehead and de...
Mob Boss
The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Reminiscent of Wiseguy, Mob Boss is a compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounting the life and times of the first acting boss of an American Mafia family to turn government witness
Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese organized crime...
Boardwalk Gangster
The Real Lucky Luciano
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
For the first twenty-five years of his criminal career, Charles "Lucky" Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. For the next twenty-five years of his life, Luciano was a legend---but a fake master criminal without real power,...
Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals...
The Last Godfathers
Inside the Mafia's Most Infamous Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
The Last Godfathers charts the spectacular rise and the fall of one of the richest and most powerful criminal organizations in history, the Sicilian mafia's Corleone clan. From humble origins in the town of Corleone, they manipulated the Cosa Nostra's code of honor—deceiving and bludgeoning to the...
The Belles of New England
The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's textile mills. The author, an award-winning CBS producer, traces the history of American textile manufacturing back to the ingenuity of Francis Cabot Lodge....