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English
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
3) Free fire
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Justine, a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord, arrange a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris and shifty South African gun runner Vernon. What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it's every man (and woman) for themselves.
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
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Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all-marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Revealing how the multibillion-dollar illegal trade of everyday counterfeit products is actually funding the world's terrorist organizations, a report by an expert on countering illicit trade explains the dangerous consequences of purchasing contraband.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Journalist Matt Potter recounts the exploits of a group of men who are paid by the United States government, Afghan warlords, and multinational companies to traffic goods across dangerous borders in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Author
Series
The relics trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Titan Books
Language
English
Description
Angela Gough has been pulled into this world, making her a criminal on the run. In London she encountered the Kin--satyrs and centaurs, Nephilim and wraiths, they are hunted and slaughtered for their body parts. Fleeing back to the United States, Angela discovers that the Kin are everywhere, and they are tired of being prey. When her niece Sammi is struck by lightning, she is drawn toward the mysterious Folded Land, and its powerful and deadly ruler....
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Series
Bollywood volume 04
Language
English
Description
Stricken with a rare illness, Indian woman of privilege Kimaya grows up isolated in an ivory tower, until she builds a relationship with window washer Rahul Savant, whom she inspires to join the police force; but when Rahul uncovers a gang-run organ ring at the same time Kimaya gets a chance at a life-changing heart transplant, their world gets turned upside down.
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 03
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
With her best friend, Kovit's, life in danger, Nita is determined to take down the black market once and for all.
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Language
English
Description
"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 02
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With her self-healing ability widely known, Nita's only chance for survival is to become too feared to be targeted again, starting with killing her betrayer, Fabricio.
12) Undermoney
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A group of American patriots, all former military, are looking for a way to get their number one choice, Senator Ben Corn, elected president. Corn is a telegenic, perfect candidate-yet harbors secrets that threaten him. The group's goal is to implement their own foreign policy and fundamentally restructure American society. Essential to this scheme is Greta Webb, a sophisticated and beautiful CIA agent who is an expert on how global dark money flows,...
13) Relics
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
There's an underground black market for arcane things: remains of gryphons, faeries, goblins, and other fantastic creatures. When Angela Gough's fiancé Vince goes missing, she discovers that he was a part of this secretive trade. It's a big-money business, shadowy, brutal, and sometimes fatal. As the trail leads deeper into London's dark side, Angela crosses paths with a crime lord whose life is dedicated to collecting such relics... and some of...
15) Painted lady
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
16) The Brass Queen
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, the "Brass Queen," she has kept her baronial estate's coffers full. But when US spy J. F. Trusdale saves her from assassins, she's pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a global war, Constance and Trusdale must learn to trust each other. If they...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The Truffle Underground takes the reader through the fascinating underworld of the truffle industry. Beneath the glossy veneer of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, a hidden world of intrigue, sabotage, and crime undergirds the elegance of truffles: Feuding factions plant poisoned meatballs in competitors' fields to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Crime syndicates steal research from the labs of scientists attempting to cultivate them, and...
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English
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In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...