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1) Armored
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English
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"Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent--a professional bodyguard--and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high--the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury. So Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in Virginia. For a man like Josh, this is purgatory...
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2013
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English
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To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he runs with the same violence he has used to keep Luz his...
3) Golden prey
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Lucas Davenport's first case as a US marshal sends him into uncharted territory. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension but for the US Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets to pick his own cases, whatever they are, wherever they lead him. And where they've led him this time is into real trouble. A Biloxi, Mississippi, drug-cartel counting...
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The long-awaited follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide, The Committed follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing.
Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former
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Quinn Colson novels volume 8
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English
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The Pritchards had never been worth a damn -- an evil, greedy family who made their living dealing drugs and committing mayhem. Years ago, Colson's late uncle had put the clan's patriarch in prison, but now he's getting out, with revenge, power, and family business on his mind. To make matters worse, a shady trucking firm with possible ties to the Gulf Coast syndicate has moved into Tibbehah, and they have their own methods of intimidation. With his...
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
7) Savages
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Savages volume 1
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
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302 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run an independent Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from an established clientele. But they may have come up against something that they can't handle --- the Mexican Baja Cartel wants in, and saying no is unacceptable. When they refuse to back down, the cartel kidnaps Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidante. O's abduction sets off...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Attempting to escape his abusive father and generations of cyclical poverty, young Jonah Hargrove joins the mysterious River--a teenage girl carrying thousands of dollars in stolen meth--and embarks on a southern gothic odyssey through the East Texas river bottoms. They are pursued by local drug kingpin John Curtis and his murderous enforcer, Dakota Cade, with whom River was romantically involved. But Cade and Curtis have their own enemies, as their...
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 1
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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531 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, refuses to talk. When he is informed that the body was discovered by Karen Borg, a civil lawyer, he demands her as his defender. Days later, Hans Olsen, a lawyer of the shadiest kind, is found shot to death. Police officers Hakon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen soon establish a link between the two killings...
10) Absolution
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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401 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Father Jake Austin's father returns to town, decades after deserting him as a young boy. His dad is fleeing a drug lord. Although Jake detests his old man, he enlists the help of Sheriff Tremont Macon, who decides to place Jake's father into protective custody in jail. There, he learns that Jake's dad has stolen cocaine from the drug dealers. In an attempt to shut the drug ring down, the FBI asks Jake to be the bait in a sting operation. Will Jake...
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William Warwick novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The second novel featuring Detective William Warwick ... William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the drug squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates his extensive network out of South London. As the investigation progresses, William runs into enemies old and new: Adrian Heath, from...
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Savages volume prequel
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
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322 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtakingly original saga of family in all its forms -- fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably...
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William Warwick novels volume 3
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English
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"Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work: to go undercover and expose crime of another kind--corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers....
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, 2012.
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445 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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For Virgil Cain, a day of fishing on the Hudson River yields more than he bargained for when, while pulling up anchor, he hooks on to a mysterious steel cylinder. As word of Virgil's strange catch spreads around the local marina, it draws the attention of a crooked city cop, who seizes both the cylinder and Virgil's boat. Soon, an old drug deal gone sour surfaces, and to get to the bottom of it -- and to get his boat back -- Virgil teams up with a...
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Borne volume 1
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
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323 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a small green lump of a creature she names ''Borne'' entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. Driven insane by his torture at the hands...
16) Borne: a novel
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Borne novels volume 1
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English
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In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a small green lump of a creature she names ''Borne'' entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. Driven insane by his torture at the hands...
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