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Johnny Edge, a former carnival barker, schemes and plots his way to the top while Peter Kessler turns his back on a staid life of small-town stability to stake his fortune on the movie business. Beautiful starlet Dulcie Warren is willing to use her sexuality and to play dirty to get to the top, if that's what it takes. When the lives of these three ambitious, determined characters collide, they have the potential to build a dream - or shatter one.

From the author of The New York Times number one best-selling novel The Carpetbaggers comes the story of Madison Dupre, a young and ambitious art curator who is fixated on reaching the top of the rarefied world of priceless antiquities - an insular playground of the mega-rich, the super-privileged and even the occasional money launderer. This glamorous world is also a world of unimaginable ugliness and ego.

Spellbinder is the story of a genuine and charismatic believer simply known as "Preacher", who returns from the foxholes and horrors of Vietnam with a simple goal: to spread the word of peace, love, and charity. He immediately attracts a following as he moves from California communes to small surfing towns. "The Church", as his mobile flock is now known, is a culture that centers as much on sex and drugs as prayers, sacraments, and salvation.

A dynasty of women triumphs in the fiercely male-dominated world of high fashion amid the ruins of war. A daughter honors her mother's ultimate sacrifice - by becoming a ruthless businesswoman who will stop at nothing to raise high her family's name. Another daughter seeks to flee the toxic legacy of her family and live in peace. And both daughters have a date with destiny in a vault filled with Nazi gold...treasure that will alter the courses of both their lives....

79 Park Avenue starts on the seedy streets of inner New York City and ends on luxurious Park Avenue. Over time Marja claws her way from street urchin to stripper, ultimately becoming the madam of a Mob-owned pleasure empire. Marja--now known as Maryann--provides access to the city's most exciting and sensual escorts. But when Maryann runs afoul of the law, endangering her empire and angering the Mob, she must face an ambitious prosecutor who stands to benefit by bringing down the call-girl ring.

Born to a life of violence and tragedy, Dan becomes one of the most powerful and dangerous labor organizers in the country - at the expense of his personal relationships. He's a man who embraced violence, fierce ambition, lust and a deep hunger for justice even as he accumulated personal wealth, fame, and power.

Ruthless, unscrupulous, devastatingly handsome, and insatiable Judd Crane, the richest man in the world, has everything a man could want in life: an endless supply of money, women, power, and sex. But despite his vast riches, he realizes that he cannot escape death.

Cesare Cardinale is an amoral, aristocratic Italian playboy - an entrepreneur and race car driver who wants for nothing - whether it's fast cars, beautiful women, or orgies of debauchery. Cesare, however, has two dirty secrets: First, he has a penchant for violence that borders on the sadistic and sociopathic; second, he owes his extravagant life to a Sicilian Mafia don, creating a seemingly perfect relationship - as he leads a double life as a Mafia assassin.

Never Love a Stranger, still considered one of Robbins' most powerful books, tells the story of Francis "Frankie" Kane, an orphan growing up in the dirty world of New York's Hell's Kitchen. After being kicked out of a Catholic orphanage when it is discovered that he is of Jewish descent, a confused and deeply distraught Frankie turns to a life of crime, the only life he knows, and he's good at it.

Joe är en fattig kille från Brooklyn som drömmer om att få skriva. Han kämpar sig upp från New Yorks fattigdom till Hollywoods förföriska drömvärld och Europas dekadens under 40-talet. Men ganska snart förstår han att rikedom, berömmelse och framgång inte kan ersätta det han egentligen är ute efter - äkta kärlek. Denna längtan för honom till många kvinnors famnar men den riktiga kärleken vill inte infinna sig. Inte förrän han träffar Laura, en kvinna som han verkligen älskar och som förstår hans drömmar och ambitioner.

Jed Stevens har Maffia i släkten, men under hela sitt liv har han trott att hans del av familjen trots det har klarat sig undan deras rovgiriga klor. Men när hans farbror, den mäktige sicilianska maffiabossen, förlorar sin son blir Jed varse om att han inte alls befunnit sig på så långt avstånd från familjen som han trott... Jed måste nu hitta ett sätt att ta sig ur den livsfarliga situation som uppstått, där mer än bara hans liv står på spel.

Gareth Brendan övertar en tynande veckotidning i Los Angeles för att göra om den till en undergroundtidning med utvikningsbrudar. Men för att göra det måste han skaffa kontakter i den undre världen och då måste han förlita sig på sin morbror. Snart är Gareth indragen i en värld av kasinon, nattklubbar, fotomodeller, sex, pengar, våld och narkotika. En mörk värld där Gareth måste offra sina drömmar för att nå toppen... Harold Robbins (1916-1997) var en amerikansk romanförfattare som växte upp i New Yorks slum.