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1) Hero
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English
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"Justine Poole provides security for wealthy and high-profile Hollywood stars, but that all changes when a job puts her in the limelight. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clients--killing two of the five armed robbers in the process--she is initially lauded in the media as a local hero. But the spotlight soon puts her in the crosshairs of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries. Unable to stand the embarrassment...
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English
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"1925. London. When Alice Diamond, AKA "Diamond Annie," is elected the Queen of the Forty Elephants, she's determined to take the all-girl gang to new heights. Too bad she's now the target for Britain's first female policewomen who is determined to prove herself. When she hears about the large-scale heist in the works to fund Alice's new dynasty, she realizes it's the chance she's been looking for--and the added bonus of putting Diamond Annie out...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Instant New York Times Bestseller
"The Godfather for our generation." — Adrian McKinty
"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the best for last." — James Patterson
From New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow comes City in Ruins – his epic, genre-defining crime masterpiece . . . and the final novel
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English
Description
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A determined reporter and a reluctant FBI agent in World War II-era Boston find themselves led down a dangerous trail of espionage, organized crime, and domestic fascism -- one that implicates their own tangled pasts and threatens to expose a larger pattern of conspiracy than either of them could have imagined.
8) Cape Rage
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Series
Danny Barrett volume 2
Language
English
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"Danny Barrett investigates a family of criminals with long-standing smuggling business in the Pacific Northwest after the FBI suspects them of robbing a bank in Seattle"--
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Publisher
Exposit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vii, 242 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Largely forgotten now, Frankie Yale was an influential New York mobster of the early 20th century whose proteges included future leaders of New York's five Mafia families and Chicago's outfit. His influence extended to Chicago, where he personally committed two of the city's most notorious underworld assassinations and waged a five-year war to wrest control of Brooklyn's docks from Irish rivals. His murder marked New York City's first use of a Tommy...
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