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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Major Dirk Pitt is called to Greece to investigate the sabotage of a National Underwater Marine Agency mission to find a fish with links to the prehistoric era, and discovers a web of conspiracy involving drug smuggling, a beautiful woman, and a vengeful Nazi war criminal.
3) The mist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Lizzie Rush uncovers evidence that thrill-seeking billionaire Norman Estabrook may be at the center of an international criminal network, she finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. When someone sets off a bomb in Boston, Lizzie discovers that Estabrook as well as the FBI director's daughter have disappeared. Together with intelligence officer Will Davenport, Lizzie sets out to track down Estabrook.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Details the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar who planned to use the hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the government; focusing on the experiences of journalist Maruja Pachon who was held captive for six months.
6) Macbeth
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Dubois, an oil burner repairman from New Hampshire, goes to Florida to start a new life and becomes involved in smuggling illegal aliens. Vanise Dorsinville flees Haiti to join an uncle in Florida. Their fates become intertwined in a shattering climax.
Author
Language
English
Description
Randy Lee Eickhoff is one of today's most treasured Irish-American scholar/authors. His translations of the Irish national epics The Raid and The Feast have won him praise as a poet and historian while his books on famous figures from America's past-Bowie and The Fourth Horseman show his talents as a storyteller.
Tom Fallon is an ex-IRA assassin who is drawn back into the movement in an attempt to stop drugs from being shipped into Ireland. But,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how desperately Moss and his young wife need protection. One party in the failed transaction hires an ex-Special Forces...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A study of the escalating war on drugs in the U.S. since it was first made a political issue by Richard Nixon in 1968, looking at the policies the author labels as costly, destructive and ineffective, and offering advice on plotting a more humane, cost-effective drug program.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever." --
15) Gatekeeper
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When in the course of a week a young heroin addict is gunned down while trying to rob a convenience store, a narcotics dealer is found hanging from a bridge, and the granddaughter of a political bigwig dies of an overdose, Vermont detective Joe Gunther vows to stop the flow of drugs into his beloved state.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A debut entry in a suspenseful series begins the adventures of Jake Tiptree's onetime helper, Lizzie Snow, who takes over as Eastport's police chief only to find herself stalked by a deadly adversary from her past. By the best-selling author of the Home Repair Is Homicide series.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Because he looks like the drug dealer Bobby Z, and he wants to get out of his life sentence for killing a fellow Hell's Angel, Tim Kerney decides to impersonate Bobby Z and be given to a drug kingpin in exchange for a captured DEA agent.
19) Crackdown
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
Paradise is the perfect escape for ex-Marine Nick Breakspear, captain of a charter yacht operation in the Bahamas, until he agrees to pilot a "detox cruise" for the drug-addled grown son and daughter of a powerful U.S. senator. Ambushed far from port, he is helpless to prevent the murder of a crew member by modern-day pirates who sink Nick's yacht before vanishing with the senator's kids. Having barely eluded death, Nick must immediately set sail...
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