Don Winslow
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Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him that something's wrong. So wrong that he violates his own cardinal rule—"You don't get personal, you don't get emotional. Whatever you do, you don't...
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Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But, so does the CIA. And, the Chinese government. And, a few shadier organizations. So when, Pendleton disappears from a conference in San Francisco, along with all of his research, Neal Carey enters the picture.
Neal knows the Bank is calling...
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[2020]
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English
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"No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken ... In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives,...
24) Ciudad en llamas
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HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
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"Providence, Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, de veintinueve años, es un estibador muy trabajador, un esposo amoroso, un amigo leal y, ocasionalmente, un "músculo" del sindicato del crimen irlandés que supervisa gran parte de la ciudad. Anhela algo más y sueña con empezar de cero, en algún lugar lejano. Pero cuando una Helena de Troya moderna desencadena una guerra entre facciones mafiosas rivales, Danny se ve envuelto en un conflicto del que...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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2010
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English
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The popular mystery from New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow—now available as an ebook.
Book four of the Neal Carey mystery series: Home at last, itinerant PI Neal Carey has trouble track him down for a change in the form of a dangerously clueless femme fatale PI Neal Carey has a talent for uncovering people trying to hide, but this time he has to help his mark stay lost. After Polly Paget, a ditzy actress from Brooklyn, is
...26) Satori
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The fall of 1951 marks the third anniversary of Nicholai Hel's secret imprisonment at the hands of the Americans. The 26-year-old assassin is a deadly enemy, but his uncanny skills also make him a valuable asset. Consequently, the CIA offers Hel his freedom in exchange for completing a seemingly impossible mission: infiltrate Beijing and assassinate the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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1997.
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English
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A Mexican drug lord offers to free a DEA agent in return for an American gangster who is in jail in Thailand. In fact the gangster is dead, but the Mexican does not know this. Convicted killer Tim Kearney is offered his freedom by the DEA if he will impersonate the gangster and Kearney jumps at the opportunity, only to discover the Mexican wanted the gangster free so he could kill him. Now, suddenly, Tim is running for his life -- from drug dealers,...
30) La frontera
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Cartel trilogy ; 3
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Español
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For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: the War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world's most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin, the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adan Barrera, has left him bloody and scarred, cost him people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster, he has created thirty...
31) Isle of joy
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Arrow
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1996.
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English
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"New York, late 1958. Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA ... But Withers has returned to his hometown ... as a private investigator. Manhattan in the late fifties is alive with new possibilities, new sounds and new faces, including young presidential hopeful Senator Joe Keneally. Withers is assigned to bodyguard Keneally's girlfriend as a society gathering ... But next morning, sh'es dead - and Withers is the prime suspect....
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Grand Central Pub
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2011.
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English
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In a prequel to Trevanian's "Shibumi," amid the chaos of the Korean War, the CIA offers Nicholai Hel his freedom only if he kills the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China in Beijing, a mission that draws on all his strengths.
33) Savages
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English
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Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry, raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town, until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.
36) Bobby Z
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2007]
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English
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Marked for death by a biker gang, ex-Marine convict Tim Kearney just got one last chance to walk out of jail alive. A scheming DEA agent needs somebody to impersonate recently deceased druglord Bobby Z and Tim happens to be a dead ringer. It's a risky proposition, but if Tim plays his part right, he may be able to claim Bobby's hot ex-girlfriend and a cool fortune in illegal profits. Unfortunately, taking on Bobby's name also means taking on his bloodthirsty...
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KCRW
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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The writers whose stories are dramatized in KCRW's "More Mean Streets USA" range from a semi-legendary figure from the Jazz Age, to some of the most skillful storytellers of the post-World War II years, to the fastest-rising genre-stars of today and tomorrow. This all new, thrilling and engrossing 8-hour production from KCRW own studios features newly recorded detective stories by contemporary and classic hard-boiled mystery writers. Stories by Walter...
