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In this episode, Harold gets called to Leningrad Russia to meet up with a Russian Oligarch named Levushka Nikolaev. The Oligarch has purchased a Uranium Mine in Argentina and is developing weapons grade Uranium for a buyer in Tehran, Iran, named "Mustafa". Word gets back to the Oligarch that Mustafa plans to steal the shipment and kill everyone tied to the Uranium...... but his plan backfires. Levushka located another buyer after he sets up a plan...
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Detective Matilda White and her all women team confront the violent drug cartel taking control of the city. This savage battle is like no other. They fight the fascist regime and face the vile leaders with their hideous creatures that they use to torture and kill. Meth is just the tip of this bloody Iceberg. What hides beneath is pure evil.
3) Bad Dad
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The adage that 'the rich are different from you and me' is crystallized in BAD DAD, a psychological crime novel that explores the dark side of wealth and privilege. Lester Fuller, as BAD DAD, is heir to a Wyoming natural gas fortune who hires his ranch foreman to murder his daughter-in-law. Mary Lou has provoked Fuller's scorn by luring son Danny away from an upper class existence, transforming him into a Southern redneck who sweats at a menial job...
4) Hatewave
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A man stands trial for a brutal murder, a crucial witness disappears, an MP's daughter confronts a dark family secret and an Asian assassin with a passion for Tom and Jerry cartoons inflicts hideous deaths on those who cannot answer his single question. Welcome to the world of Hatewave where the World Wide Web harnesses hate to bring death and destruction to its chosen targets.
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Foreign agents operate in countries of interest in times of peace, belligerence, and war. Their purpose is to seek pertinent information and pass it on to the country of their allegiance, and be open to opportunistic means of causing havoc and unrest among the local populace. In 1941, Germany's vision of world domination sparks several baffling murders in the city of Los Angeles. The striking figure of Erika Willets, whose biography is as imposing...
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Frank Ford is a survivor of 10 long years at the Metropole Bar, where he's babysitter and alcohol dealer to Zenith City's derelict class: the misfits, the losers, the crazies, the old fading lushes, and, of course, the budding young alcoholics unaware or indifferent to what lies ahead. We first see Frank in the aftermath of his little brother's funeral. Ray was an addict and a constant irritant. Forgotten, is how Frank wanted to remember Ray. The...
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When the driver of the aging conversion van he just pulled over rabbits off into the brush, Texas State Trooper Dan Henning knows there must be something of value hidden in the vehicle. A quick search turns up a mountain of cash poorly hidden behind the wall paneling. But someone's found money is someone else's lost money, and before long, an odd pair of alleged awning salesmen pays Henning's wife a visit. Now the trooper finds himself back in a Gulf...
8) Priors
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The poppy. Opium. Morphine. Heroin. The Sumerians - thousands of years before the birth of Christ - knew of the powers of the wild poppy plant. Today 40% of the world's production is grown in Tasmania. The Poppy fields of this island state are the most secure in the world. Or are they? David Barron of the Federal Police is sent to check security and uncovers a seemingly simple plan to steal from the protected fields. Soon the simple plan becomes complex...
9) Even
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Most people agree that the world should be just but that it simply isn't. Rogues flourish, the good die young and many feel they have not received their due. Unlike the rest of us, the anonymous hero of Even does not just complain about it, he embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, searching both for vengeance for the past and justice for the future in a personal attempt to bring balance to an unbalanced world. The result is a quest that ranges across...
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It's time to revisit 1977 and Elvis Presley's final days in a way that no one else ever has. Grab your thinking cap and join author Steve Ubaney in volume I of his five volume "Who Murdered?" book series, as he probes every part of Presley's mysterious death, FBI involvement, and the sinister forces at work during the final days of his career. We have been told all the lies for decades, now it's time to answer some very pointed questions. Why has...
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While trying to free a lawyer friend convicted of a crime he didn't commit, New Orleans private investigator Luke Jacobs is drawn into an international web of real estate fraud, pharmaceutical corporation misdealing and murder. Mardi Gras may have to be put on hold.
12) The Shroud
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Dr. Royce Benders in the mid-eighties seems to have it all. A Nobel Prize winner on the cutting edge of the rapidly developing DNA field for criminology and human embryogenesis. But Benders' dream has nothing to do with fame or fortune. He is a devout Christian obsessed with the Second Coming and impatient to see it in his lifetime. The Catholic Church invites Dr. Benders to work on the Shroud of Turin to help devise a plan to save the rapidly deteriorating...
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Gathered round the fire at the Maypole Inn, in the village of Chigwell, on a foul weather evening in the year 1775 were John Willet, proprietor of the Maypole, and his three cronies. One of the three, Soloman Daisy, tells a stranger at the inn a well-known local tale of the murder of Reuben Haredale which had occurred 22 years ago that very day. Reuben had been owner of the Warren, an estate in the area, now the residence of the deceased Reuben's...
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In this episode, Harold Brandon continues his private war against the cartels, which takes him to the Yucatan peninsula in southern Mexico. His target is a "Don" and his murderous wife, the Senora Francesca, who ruthlessly rule the region together, inflicting unspeakable horrors on the locals and anyone else who stands in their way to maintain dominion over the region they control. Harold and his partner "Arty" team up with a CIA operative named Jeff...
15) PIPER'S, Inc
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"Freedom is not free; it must be taken!" This is the mantra of "PIPER'S, Inc." a conspiracy thriller centered on a secret society that is dramatically and horrifically changing the landscape of American life. Through the methodical liquidation of corrupt politicians, lawmakers, judges, law enforcement, financial CEOs, and the elite oligarchs whose whims manipulate American life, the institution is bringing a bloody wake-up call to society. Waiting...
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Goodbye Mrs. Robinson is an Irish, very black comedy about a brother and sister who find themselves in a very complex plot to claim money from their foster mother's insurance. Set in Galway, West Ireland this novella is about two orphaned children Aoife and Conor trying to break free from their contrary foster mother, Helen Robinson. If you liked In Bruges and The Guard you'll enjoy this latest book from Fiona O'Malley. Half of the money raised from...
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After the downfall of the Noah Cartel and the death of Oscar Crawford, life at Knight's Gate Retirement Home for Mature Gentleman once more became easy and restful. Then it happened again–another other-than-normal death. Abigail is once more in the center of what appears to be a heinous killing, perhaps for revenge. This time, however, there is more information for her and her allies to delve into in an attempt to determine which suspects are candidates...
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In October of 1956, my twelve year old newly adopted orphan babysitter, Janet Cash and I were staying the night alone on my uncle's northern California ranch. During the night, we were attacked by three men, two of them were us navy sailors. Janet was beaten and gang raped by the three men throughout the night, and I was tortured and assaulted. In the morning, Janet was taken to an area called the flats and viciously murdered by the two us navy sailors....
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Ken is about to become the leader of his state, his beautiful wife Cathy perfect at his side. His policies promise a new life with new opportunities, to rid the streets of crime, violence, immorality and corruption and a government that cares for its citizens. Ken has won the hearts of the people, except that is for a few. Some are determined to see his demise before ever the election is held by using whatever methods are available to them. Just a...
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The daily robbing, bashing, drugging, extortion and murder of foreign tourists on Thai soil, along with numerous scandals involving unsafe facilities and well established scams, has led to frequent predictions that Thailand's multi-billion dollar tourist industry will self-destruct. Instead tourist numbers more than doubled in the decade to 2014. The world might not have come to the hometowns of the many visitors fascinated by Thailand, but it certainly...
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