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The real-life adventures of a United States Secret Service undercover agent. In Street Guy, a retired special agent in charge details his experiences working undercover against some of New York's most notorious members of the Mafia and traveling overseas on undercover assignments against transnational criminal groups.
Street Guy details his experiences investigating crimes, including armored car robbery, the counterfeiting of US currency, financial...
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Beware of the Banker is a crime fiction story that takes place in the Portland, Maine area. It was inspired by the true story of Bonnie and Clyde, the most notorious bank robbers in United States history next to Jesse James.
It is the story of Tony, a bank branch manager who is addicted to casino gambling and as a consequence, is heavily in debt. He spends his time trying to figure a way to embezzle from his own bank then convinces a young man and...
3) The Takeover
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Charlie Trippie, just out of the navy after twenty years, is called on by his Uncle Dom, who is a Mafia don. He was asked to take over a local union in Miami to stop the Cubans from taking over. The story has many twists from beginning to end. You travel with Charlie from Miami, New York, and the Bahamas. From island to island, the book is written for fast action and gives you the insight of how things are done inside the unions, local and international....
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This book promotes the acceptance of interracial families. It tells the story of true events in a family of criminals and how the criminal gene was passed down to future generations. The criminal gene became an issue when Lola found herself in a bad place: a holding cell in jail.
Lola became aware of her genetic defect while in the holding cell in jail and decided she needed to save herself and change. The Harrison family ancestors left behind...
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The warm wind blew through my sun-bleached hair; my eyes watered and ears popped as the trek down the twisting Missouri highway brought back past violent accounts through my mind. The fence posts and passing cars blurred as I cruised at eighty miles an hour in a failed attempt to get to Branson before one of the most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs wreaked havoc and provoked death. The "good ol' boys," as many law enforcement officers called them,...
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The sweltering Iowa sun beat down upon me like a heavy blanket as I prepared myself to enter the sanctum of the unknown. With my CI at my side, whom I have to rely on with my life, we enter the garage where I find myself staring down the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun. The training I have to depend on are my wits and my will to survive.
Numerous fictitious accounts inspired by actual events throughout this "on the edge of your seat" book transpire...
8) Dark Voltage
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Newly assigned to head a special terrorism task force, semiretired NYC police detective John Landford rounds up a team of unlikely professionals pulled from FBI, Interpol, and Homeland Security to track down the theft of a stolen electrical part that may come with serious consequences by threatening the world's largest oil-fired, electric-generating plant.
Murder follows the part as it journeys from small-crime neighborhoods in Puerto Rico to opulent...
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When Darla took off from Spokane, Washington, she thought she would be traveling around to see her country and to research information about cold cases. But to her surprise, after the first six months of traveling, everything changed, and she began crossing paths with people who told her some very interesting stories about their lives. Her faith was tested more than once, and she felt God guide her into meeting people that she would try and help as...
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The City of Brotherly Love is an unforgiving place for a hungry eight-year-old living on the streets. For Jack 'Bojack' Salterelli it was the training ground for the future life as a stick up man, a hardened convict by twenty-one, enforcer, and meth kingpin. After decades in 'the life', Bojack would turn his life around by going undercover for the F.B.I. However, what he thought was the road to redemption ended as another double cross leaving his...
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This is not a bash-the-police book. Cops have an extremely difficult and dangerous job made so much harder by lopsided social media reporting and constant public and political scrutiny. For the most part, law enforcement employees are extremely ethical and dedicated to correctly protecting and serving the public. Methods of evidence gathering and examination are better than ever before, and through the physical, social, and psychological sciences,...
12) Closet Bones
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My name is Fernando Americo Tijerina. I have written many books about myself, my family and of many, many inmates who were incarcerated and waiting for their sentencing. I spent fourteen months writing day and night: sometimes in maximum security and other times with other inmates and other times just by myself in the prison yards trying to understand why so many of these criminals decided to commit what they did.
During my time incarcerated, I had...
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Ten years have passed and Detective Steven Bullard still finds himself obsessed with Mary Krowely, a case that had slipped through his fingers and ended tragically. His obsession led him down a destructive path of mental torture; drug abuse; and finally, distrust from his fellow officers.
But now something has caught his eye: a pattern in another case. Girls are being kidnapped in the same manner that Mary was: tortured and abused but left dumped-left...
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The cabin is a place where Mary spent much of her childhood with her parents. In her early twenties, her father was killed in a freak accident in the yard. Mary realizes that in order for her to move on with her life, she needs to return to the cabin alone, facing again that awful day. The story continues with convincing her mother that she also needs to return, with old relationships revisited and events that follow throughout her journey to heal....
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From the roots of poverty and a thread of family, Bryan Hiser turned to burglary of the rich and wealthy in an attempt to fill a longing emptiness. The initial excitement turned to routine, then expertise, but ultimately to disappointment and betrayal even at the pinnacle of his incredible criminal journey.
Follow every step in his road to infamy, including his internal struggles as he matured and came to grips with what he had become, and the...
16) The Glass Tower
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Growing up in a lower-middle-class mob family, Greg has been chosen by his father to be in the family business. He is engulfed into a criminal enterprise with childhood friends, families, uncles, and cousins running one of the most powerful unions in New York City.
Greg is raised in this union with deceit, fear, and no way out. He finds himself torn between his family and his freedom to be something other than what the mob has made of him. This...
17) Sliced
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Tennis. Police. Murders...
Welcome to teacher and wanna-be writer, Alexis Conroy's life. An alcoholic who realizes she's in way over her head when she finds dead bodies of women who eerily look like her.
Should she hide under the "racket" of her ex-boyfriend, tennis star Chad Cummings? Or inform the local authorities? Or carry on, alone, sick and horrified?
With much hesitation and blackout, alcohol-induced experiences, she seeks...
18) One Cold Summer
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On the day of his father's funeral, Richie Morgan is greeted by a surprise mourner: his brother, Nick. After vanishing nine years earlier following the death of their mother, Nick Morgan has finally returned home to the idyllic peninsula of Door County, Wisconsin. Richie, wary of his brother's intentions, is suspicious of troubled Nick's sudden return. After a disastrous funeral, Nick is invited to stay at the behest of Richie's wife, Lana, who is...
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Appointed Vengeance: Wins vs. Losses, The Lawyer Killings series starring larger-than-life main character, Richard Blake Ginn, infamously coined the lawyer killer, is an ultra-successful automotive engineer, hot rod auto mechanic shop owner, and family man, married to his wife, Kimberly Ginn, with their young daughter together, Jessica Ginn.
Richard was living the American dream until unexpectedly blindsided by his scorned and bitter wife, Kimberly,...
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The only life that John Nellono values is that of his granddaughter, Terresa. While people often say that they'd kill for their family, John has done it before and threatens to do it again.
Handsome, charming, workaholic Jack Stone is a pioneer in Miami during the birth of organ transplantation. He has dedicated his career to saving lives, but that commitment and his morality are tested when he must choose between doing the unthinkable or the fate...
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