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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Carr--ex-CIA--is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning to take tens of millions of dollars belonging to a disgraced financier, Curtis Prager. But Carr's seasoned pros are wound drum-tight--months before, the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup.
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English
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In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer, who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
3) Reamde
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Language
English
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When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
4) Homemade sin
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Inquisitive cleaning lady and amateur sleuth Callahan Garrity faces the opposition of her own family when she investigates the carjacking death of her cousin, Patti McNair, and uncovers a host of dark family secrets.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented – and most feared – men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in mystery, known for helping the truly desperate. If anyone is truly desperate, it’s Max Merriweather. Max is at the end of his rope....
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A few months ago, Nick Reid and his compadre Desmond liberated some money from a nasty meth dealer and now they need to launder it. After lending out a couple thousand dollars here and there, with hopes of getting a small return, all kinds of investment opportunities are coming out of the woodwork and one of them has trouble written all over it. The brother of Desmond's ex-wife wants a small sum to set up a scheme involving a trailer full of stolen...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks Originals
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For fans of" Fifty Shades of Grey, Bared to You, " and "Release Me" comes an all-new erotic series of three enigmatic and powerful men, and the striking women who can bring them to their knees. "I knew better than to risk my heart." "But fierce passion comes at a high price." I grew up believing in right and wrong, good and evil, black and white. I knew better than to trust. And then I met Tyler Sharp. Bold, charming, and dangerously sexy, Tyler...
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Series
Annie's Sweet Intrigue volume 1
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'Julianne Montgomery returns to her hometown to heal from the death of her husband, David, and find solace in the familiar surrounds. As Julianne settles into her new house and job, she struggles to put the tragedy behind her and rebuild her life. Late one night, Julianne receives the shock of her lifetime when her dead husband shows up on her doorstep very much alive and with a gunshot wound. David insists that Julianne is in danger and begs her...
10) The bezzle
Author
Series
Martin Hench novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost twenty-five dollars. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island,...
11) Once a thief
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Series
Simon Riske novel volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Simon Riske sits in sun-dappled Napa Valley, toasting the record hundred-million-dollar sale of a rare 1963 Ferrari which he restored himself. The buyer, a sophisticated French woman, Sylvie Bettencourt, has purchased the car for an unnamed client whose anonymity she will guard at all costs. Riske enjoys her company and the flowing champagne until Sylvie's formidable Russian bodyguard storms in, claiming the vehicle is a fake. Riske is given an ultimatum....
12) Prodigal son
Author
Series
Orphan X novel volume 06
Language
English
Description
"Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed-in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted...