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Author
Series
Spenser novel volume 40
Language
English
Description
"Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise 16 year old girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for"-- Provided by publisher.
22) The foreigner
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
Jon Cold is a professional secret agent-for-hire. Admist political corruption, murder and bounty of back-stabbing bad guys, Cold is hired to deliver a package from France to Germany. Some dangerous people will stop at nothing to make sure that the package doesn't make it to its rightful owner. These men soon discover that getting in his way is a very dangerous decision.
23) The vaults
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events leads three men down a path to uncover their city's darkest secret. A mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults, and their investigations call into question whether their most basic beliefs can be maintained in a climate of overwhelming corruption and conspiracy.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In May 2010, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft made national headlines when he released a series of secretly recorded audio tapes exposing corruption and abuse at the highest levels of the police department. But, according to a lawsuit filed by Schoolcraft against the City of New York, instead of admitting mistakes and pledging reform, Schoolcraft's superiors forced him into a mental hospital in an effort to discredit the evidence. In The NYPD Tapes,...
26) Bounty: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Following a team of FBI agents striving to counter an untraceable web site and the elusive forces behind it, and tracking the real perils of cyber-saturation across the globe, this all-too-topical thriller explores what happens when pervasive corruption, widespread public unrest, and the shattering of any last illusions of privacy clash in a perfect storm outside the rule of law"--Provided by publisher.
27) Random violence
Author
Series
Jade de Jong investigations volume 1
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
28) NYPD red
Author
Series
NYPD red novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called.
29) American tabloid
Author
Series
Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles. By the author of White Jazz.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Republican Congressman from Colorado who serves on multiple judiciary oversight committees reveals how both political parties work together to overtax Americans and force the nation into deeper debt.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police officer with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one. As Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies, and reveals what must be done to rebuild our faith in leadership.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author, podcast favorite, and Fox News contributor Dan Bongino delivers the third and most shocking of his acclaimed series chronicling the Deep State war against Donald Trump. Starting with the Trump impeachment hearings, Bongino works forward and backward to piece together the connections of a vast, well-funded cabal of wealthy Democrats and D.C. swamp elite to the non-stop deluge of manufactured scandals launched specifically to attack,...
35) Out of death
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the run from dirty cops who committed murder deep in the woods, a lone hiker finds an unlikely ally in retired cop Jack Harris. The pair must stick together to survive the wilderness and the human predators within it.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of Stay with Me, "in the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" (The New York Times). Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
38) The first purge
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new politcal party known as the New Founding Fathers of America conducts an experiment, where there are no laws on Staten Island for twelve hours.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred. After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests, and boarded-up homes seems stuck in the past in a state that is trying to forget its complex history and...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Helena Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As the American presidential campaign season begins, veteran journalist Jack Sharpe uncovers dark money and foreign influence at work, earning him the enmity of powerful forces that will put the people he loves in harm's way.
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