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...military has also confiscated tons of weapons, along with private yachts and aircraft, and destroyed more than 200 other clandestine airstrips. A veteran pilot described the country's underworld air traffic as resembling "a swarm of bees combing the jungle for their honey...
Enter Agent Yablonsky, now 55. Yablonsky immediately ruffled the local establishment with his aggressive style. He installed a hot line for Nevada residents reporting official corruption and pursued investigations that helped to indict reputed underworld figures involved in skimming profits at casinos. He also targeted Claiborne, reportedly telling acquaintances that he wanted the judge's picture hanging on his wall. But the trophy stayed out of reach until the arrival of an unlikely ally: Nevada Brothel Operator Joseph Conforte, whom Claiborne had once successfully defended against a charge of white slavery...
...behest of his boss, a remote functionary of the Philadelphia Mob. Mickey finds himself obliged to soothe his wife's pain in two ways: by coming up with the $6,000 or so it will take for a mahogany coffin and a dignified funeral and by begging his underworld connections to find out just how Leon happened to die in the first place...
...skeletons in their closets: low-budget movies made when they were struggling for attention, then exhumed by some fringe distributor trying to cash in on a brand name. Mike's Murder, which stars Debra Winger as a bank teller lured into the paranoia of the cocaine underworld, is a skeleton in a super-closet: the picture was made in 1982 between Winger's two big hits, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, and was perpetrated by James Bridges, the writer-director whose previous films include The China Syndrome and Urban Cowboy. The pedigree of Mike...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is a masterly example of the Russian mode of skaz, or first-person narrative in the vernacular rather than in literary language. Aleshkovsky, who tells his manic tale in the voice of the crook, displays a phenomenal command of police, prison and underworld slang, as well as Russian obscenity. The writer is currently at work on a novel about a Soviet exile in the U.S. Its hero is a small-time Soviet Casanova who ceaselessly roams the country in a rented car in search of love and lust. He finds both with...