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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"In close-knit Posadas County, where everyone knows everyone's business, it turns out that some people can bury secrets, and some secrets are murderous."-Kirkus Reviews
It's Christmas in Posadas County. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman is settling down to a quiet evening with her family, until her doctor husband gets a call from the retired chief-of-police: he's at a nearby motel, having pains. Then Estelle gets a call herself. She and ex-Sheriff...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
L.A.P.D. reject and major troublemaker, Earl, ends up getting L.A. police officer, Hank, kicked off the force for brutality. Now, these two guys, who can't stand each other, are stuck working together as lowly security guards. They play cops to bring down a smuggling ring - if they can stay alive and stay one step ahead of the real cops.
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre series of attacks, and Barlow is convinced it has something to do with a multiple murder in 1925, in which his family had a shameful part. Ford doesn't believe in curses, but as he and his friend Tomlinson...
64) Frozen river
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman, and Lila, a Mohawk, both single mothers facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.
65) Trackers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Lemmer, a highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa, where the rural tranquility has helped to calm his explosive temper. When a wealthy farmer asks for his help in smuggling a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe (where they are murdered for their horns), he has a hard time saying no. Before he knows it, Lemmer is on a small airplane, zipping across the border, an airsickness...
66) Hot cargo
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Ellie, John, and Rick go to work for the Seaside Dock Company the first order of business is to stop a band of smugglers.
67) The whiskey sea
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A fiercely independent young woman risks her heart and her freedom smuggling liquor in the 1920s.
68) Sands of Dune
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Collected for the first time, these four previously unpublished Dune novellas by bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune universe. Spanning space and time, Sands of Dune is essential reading for any fan of the series. The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand blasted world of Arrakis, to the splendor of the imperial homeworld of Kaitain, readers...
71) Black diamond
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In the wake of attacks on local Asian vendors and an increase in black-market ingredients that threaten the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, Chief of Police Bruno finds the case taking a personal turn when one of his hunting partners, a former high-profile intelligence agent, is murdered.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Thunderball (1965, 125 min.): Agent 007 travels to Nassau to track down villainous criminal Emilio Largo, who's threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust but not before he feeds Bond to his killer sharks. -- You only live twice (1967, 117 min.): Bond meets up with diabolical Ernst Stavro BLofeld, who has hijacked US and Soviet spaceships. 007 must undertake a pulse-pounding race to prevent nuclear war between the superpowers with the...
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
On a visit to the grave of grandparents Nuala Anne McGrail, who has psychic vision, notices the coffin in a nearby grave is empty. The grave is that of Jimmy Sullivan, a 1920s Chicago gangster. As Nuala's fiance, Dermot Coyne proceeds to investigate, he runs into lethal opposition. By the author of Irish Lace.
75) The ice curtain
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"The Iron Curtain is down, and Russia has become a smuggler's paradise. Hidden behind a curtain of ice in Siberia's far north is the richest diamond mine on earth, a motherlode of treasure so vast it could break the back of the world's oldest - and wealthiest - cartel. A cartel that will buy the enemies it can ... and eliminate the ones it cannot.".
"Against this turbulent backdrop, Gregori Nowek searches for the truth behind the murder of his best...
77) Rebelwing
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
At New Columbia Preparatory Academy in a near-future Washington, D.C., black market smuggler Prudence Wu and friends Anabel, Alex, and Cat become key players in a conflict with the United Continental Confederacy.
79) Thieves fall out
Author
Series
Hard case crime volume HCC-119
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Follows the exploits of a down-on-his-luck American as he tries to smuggle an ancient relic out of Cairo during a time of revolution.
In 1953, Vidal had already begun writing the works that would launch him to the top ranks of American authors and intellectuals. But in the wake of criticism for the scandalous content of his third novel, The City and the Pillar, Vidal turned to writing crime fiction under pseudonyms: three books as "Edgar Box" and...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A rogue American Special Forces unit schemes to smuggle $35 million worth of heroin into the United States, and all that stands in its way is border patrol agent Jack Robideaux, an ex-homicide cop with a hidden agenda. Taking on suicide bombers, sadistic torturers and traitorous officials on both sides of the border, Jack shows no mercy as he single-handedly attempts to destroy the cartel.