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Featured on NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball's most respected referees. In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New Jersey State Trooper when his superiors approached him with a tantalizing yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking,...
3) Pronto
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A bookie, a United States marshal, and a trio of thugs from Miami's underworld pay a visit to Rapallo, on the Italian Riviera.
4) Be cool
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Chili Palmer finds himself in an unlikely alliance with LAPD Detective Darryl Holmes, and becomes the target of Russian gangsters when he witnesses a mob hit while lunching with an old friend, but he continues to pursue his next film idea based on the life of Linda Moon, a singer who is struggling to leave her past behind.
5) '46, Chicago
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Dateline Chicago, 1946: Policy, the illegal lottery, makes millions of dollars for racketeers in Chicago's black community. But the numbers don't add up when kingpin Ed Jones is kidnapped. Who grabbed him? The mob? Another policy wheel operator? And why? Gus Carson, World War II veteran, a survivor of the sinking of his ship in the Pacific. A Chicago cop, he's suspended for a late night shooting at a brothel. Enter wealthy politico Arvis Hypoole....
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Orenda Books
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2022
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Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and you YouMeFun, the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears - and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park's equipment supplier is taken over by a shady trio with confusing demands. Why won't Toy of Finland Ltd sell the new Moose Chute to Henri when he needs it as the park's main attraction? Meanwhile, Henri's relationship...
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Maisie Dobbs novel volume 14
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[2018]
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Spring, 1940. Following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs has been investigating the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Her investigation leads from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men. When a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future -- and the risk...
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