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1) King City
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Joe is a young man with no home, no purpose, and almost no friends ... though he does have a very special cat. With a simple injection, Joe's cat can become anything: a weapon, a tool, or even a cuddly companion. But what, if anything, can transform Joe?
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When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? In King City, that's where! Joe is a young man with no home, no purpose, and almost no friends... though he does have a very special cat. With a simple injection, Joe's cat can be anything: a weapon, a tool, or even a cuddly companion. But what - if anything - can transform Joe? Whatever it is, it can probably be found in King City, an outrageous semi-futuristic city full of spy gangs,...
3) The Rise
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"We can be kings of this city!"
It's 1892 and David Kelly has, arrived in New York fresh off the boat from Ireland. The family take up accommodation in the poverty-stricken neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen. In a place where every penny counts, David is, forced out to find any work he can. By chance, he runs into a second-generation Jewish immigrant, Ben Portnoy.
Ben soon teaches David the dark arts of rolling drunks and pickpocketing. David then finds...
4) The Fall
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"Death had never felt so close."
The Age of Prohibition has made David Kelly and his family business into the largest and strongest crime outfit in the whole of New York. David, now an old man, rules the family with a paranoid eye, watching their every move. His tyranny has driven his wife Sarah into reclusion and his son Patrick into the heart of his criminal empire, while his youngest son Gordon wilts through ill health.
But with Franklin D. Roosevelt...
5) The Reign
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"I'm not guilty."
It's 1907 and David Kelly is, in the throes of opium addiction. Like thousands of other New Yorkers, he whiles away his days in the embrace of the opium pipe. Only a sudden attack on his hideout and the intervention of his best friend Ben Portnoy saves him from losing himself forever.
Determined to fulfil his ambitions of ruling New York, David joins the most powerful Irish gang in the city, the Hudson Dusters. But, his activities...
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Keisha McKinley is an 18-year-old beautiful bombshell, born and raised in Southeast DC. While her parents became addicted to drugs, Keisha became addicted to money, clothes, and anything else she could get out of the guys she came across. With her best friends, Laniah and Jess, by her side, she lives the cash life and brings them along for the ride. She believed she could play any man out of money with promises of having her until she met Black.
Black...