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81) Ambush
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American expat Scott Nolan has recently moved to Ireland and enjoys a flourishing career as a doctor, a rising media profile as a persuasive campaigner against drug abuse, and is very much in love with Laura, his beautiful new wife. But one wintry Dublin morning, Scott's life is changed forever when a team of contract killers attempts a daring double ambush. Their target: Ireland's antidrug government minister and his medical spokesman, Dr. Scott...
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"Freddy leads a life of little responsibility, following his own meandering path. His only real attachment is to his memory-challenged grandmother, whose nursing home he regularly visits. His far-flung sisters may belittle his artistic ambitions, and his grandmother only occasionally knows who he is, but he can go with the flow. When another nursing home resident is murdered, though, Freddy panics. He can't take care of his grandmother alone, and...
83) Double wide
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Whip Stark novels volume 1
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After fastball phenom Prospero Stark's baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher's severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend's fate, a dangerous...
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Brodie Farrell novels volume 6
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Brodie Farrell's job is to find things for people. Her agency, aptly named 'Looking for Something?' has looked for things and people in some strange places in the past. She's expecting a quiet day when she agrees to refresh her friend Daniel Hood's driving skills but, a seemingly innocuous accident with a hysterical girl changes those thoughts in a hurry. With Daniel shaken and haunted, Brodie looks for answers to who the girl is and why she's now...
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Wolfe family novels volume 3
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On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galan, who wants nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding party's ransom at five million US dollars, to be paid in cash within 24 hours. The only captive not related to either the bride or the groom...
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John Wells novels volume 6
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c2012
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John Wells goes undercover in Afghanistan to investigate not only the Taliban, but also his fellow Americans, as he seeks the source of the hostility, mistrust, and drug trafficking involving people within the CIA, the military, and the Taliban.
88) The darkness
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Henry Parker novels volume 5
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An Indie Next Selection. A young man is found murdered, his bones crushed nearly to dust before his body was dumped into New York's East River. In New York there are hundreds of murders a year, but this one is different. Somebody is sending a message. And shockingly, the victim has ties to a man very close to Henry Parker. And the murder ties into a case that has the city paralyzed with fear: a vicious drug kingpin is looking to take back the city....
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[2019]
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"The opioid epidemic has reached Paradise, and Police Chief Jesse Stone must rush to stop the devastation in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parker's New York Times-bestselling series. When a popular high school cheerleader dies of a suspected heroin overdose, it becomes clear that the opioid epidemic has spread even to the idyllic town of Paradise. It will be up to police chief Jesse Stone to unravel the supply chain and unmask the criminals behind...
90) The black ice
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 2
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Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket, leaving Los Angeles Police Department detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch investigating drug traffickers in Los Angeles and Mexico.
91) Edge of battle
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Jason Richter novels volume 2
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Jason Richter and his high-tech unit Task Force TALON are charged with securing the Mexican border, where a terrorist band has been operating with impunity and enflaming the passions of the population.
92) The sinners
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Quinn Colson novels volume 8
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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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Caitlin Strong novels volume 11
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The drug crisis hits home for fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong when the son of her outlaw lover Cort Wesley Masters nearly dies from an opioid overdose. On top of that, she's dealing with the inexplicable tragedy of a small Texas town where all the residents died in a single night. When Caitlin realizes that these two pursuits are intrinsically connected, she finds herself following a trail that will take her to the truth behind the crisis...
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"Oscar Boatwright, a disenchanted philosophy professor, receives terrible news. His mother, on her way home from Hawaii with Oscar's father, has died midflight, her body cooling for hours until the plane can land. Deeply grieving, Oscar feels his life slipping out of his control. A seemingly innocuous one-night stand with a woman named Dawn becomes volatile when, on the first day of classes, he realizes she is his student, and later learns that she...
95) Hard aground
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In this, his eleventh outing, Lewis Cole--former Department of Defense research analyst--is "hard aground" at his beachfront home, recovering from major surgery, when threats and danger come right to his front door. Alone at night, hes convinced he's hearing someone breaking and entering into his historical home, and during the day, he's being harassed by genealogy researchers, and then, a local gang involved in the highly lucrative and dangerous...
96) Breaking Bailey
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Sent to a fancy boarding school by her stepmother, a prominent attorney, Rachel keeps a journal chronicling her involvement in a "Science Club" that makes and sells crystal meth.
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In a troubling and comprehensive examination of the post-Cold War explosion in illegal commerce, Editor of Foreign Policy magazine, Na'm offers a sweeping survey that's light on anecdote. He argues that "since the early 1990s, global illicit trade has embarked on a great mutation." He explores how political changes coupled with unrestricted technologies and free-market expansion had the unforeseen effect of making the international trade in contraband...
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"Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. "Biba," is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he's survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba's story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America. Born in Soviet-era Belarus, abandoned by his parents in infancy, Biba's brutal upbringing left him hungry for more--more power, control, and money. Taking...
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Young, idealistic Olivia returns to Oakland after a torrid affair with Jorge, a political activist she met while touring Mexico. When Jorge shows up on her doorstep after illegally crossing the border, the couple finds their love sorely tested by the harsh realities of life. Unable to find work, Jorge sets up a drug deal to land enough money to get the couple on their feet. But when the deal goes bad, Olivia finds herself at the mercy of an unforgiving...
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