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The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for Alex Caine, an undercover agent who has seen it all.
Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But, after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or "kite": infiltrating...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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When a sudden crime wave hits several small midwestern towns, the U.S. Attorney for the region calls on Harry Duncan to investigate. An ex-cop known for his unorthodox methods, Duncan is reluctant to go up against a widespread criminal organization-but the attorney in question is Ellen Leicester, the wife who left him fifteen years earlier, and to her, he can't say no. Initially brought in as a consultant to determine if the racketeering is severe...
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One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna. Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew, before he ghosts out of the city. In...
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Knopf Books
Pub. Date
2008
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xvi, 375 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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A study of the globalization of international organized crime explains how both global crime and terrorism are fueled by Western affluence and how demands for illegal wares and services have led to the spread of organized crime.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
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When a joke about making illicit money escalates to a kidnapping scheme, four friends enjoy the proceeds of a low-risk operation until they abduct the wrong target and capture the attentions of the law and a vengeful organized-crime ring.
8) Gangland
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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341 pages ; 24 cm
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"In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses. When the Christmas gift Accardo got forhis wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracking down and returning all of the items-by whatever means...
10) Good bait
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When a 17-year-old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her overstretched Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. Karen knows she needs a result. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organized crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society. Several hundred miles away in Cornwall, Detective Inspector Trevor Cordon is stirred from...
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Nick Mason novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
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288 pages ; 24 cm
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"Nick Mason is out of prison. After five years inside, he has just been given the one thing a man facing 25-to-life never gets, a second chance. But it comes at a terrible price. Nick Mason is out of prison, but he's not free. Whenever his cell phone rings, day or night, he must answer it and follow whatever order he is given. It's the deal he made with Darius Cole, a criminal kingpin serving a double-life term who still runs an empire from his prison...
12) Sailor
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Turning in her mafia-affiliated husband and fleeing with her son and a cache of stolen diamonds, Gina is vengefully targeted by her father-in-law and meets sailor Gray, whose trustworthiness Gina doubts.
13) The deceived
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Jonathan Quinn thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 25 cm.
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Shocked to discover that his latest task is to eliminate all traces of Steven Markoff, a former CIA agent and one of his best friends, professional "cleaner" Jonathan Quinn risks everything to seek justice for Markoff.
14) The palace
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Simon Riske novels volume 3
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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405 pages ; 25 cm.
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When a man to whom he owes his life reaches out from prison, international spy Simon Riske recruits a daring investigative reporter and a rogue Mossad agent to thwart an international conspiracy targeting major European cities.
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Detective Daley novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
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314 pages ; 24 cm
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"James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into England and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and subsequent conviction. But now, five years later, he is apparently back from the grave, set on avenging himself on those who brought him down. At the top of his list is his previous associate, Frank MacDougall, who,...
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
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310 p. ; 25 cm.
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The carefully orchestrated life of Manhattan emergency room doctor and witness-protection program participant Peter Brown unravels in the course of a high-stakes day that begins with a mugging, an elevator encounter with a sexy pharmaceutical rep, and a new patient who knows him from his previous existence.
17) Insane city
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Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python.
18) Revenge
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Murder. Former SAS soldier David Shelley was part of the most covert operations team in the special forces, along with the woman he went on to marry. Now settling down to civilian life in London, they have plans to set up a private security company and enjoy a safer and more stable existence. But the shocking death of a young woman Shelley once helped protect puts those plans on hold. Betrayal. The police rule the death a suicide but the grieving...
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"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to...
20) Ace of shades
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Shadow game trilogy volume 1
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When Enne leaves finishing school early to pursue her missing mother she finds Levi Glaisyer who is not a proper gentleman but a street lord who catches them both in a dangerous gamble that could mean their lives.
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