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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer, who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Former assassin Evan Smoak is using his deadly skills to assist Max Merriweather, a guy down on his luck, whose cousin's murder has brought him to the attention of an Armenian street gang involved in a money-laundering scheme. It seems like an easy enough task for the Nowhere Man, but as soon as he eliminates one threat, a more powerful one appears, and getting to the top of the pyramid requires courage, wit, creativity, and a lot of specialty weapons....
Author
Series
Tank Rizzo novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Former NYPD detective Tank Rizzo and his partner, Pearl, tackle two corruption cases involving a dirty cop who is sending innocents to jail and the money-laundering accounting firm behind his brother's mysterious death.
5) Beluga
Author
Series
Nick Reid novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"A few months ago in Ranchero, Rick Gavin's much-acclaimed Delta noir novel, Nick Reid and his compadre Desmond liberated some money from a nasty meth dealer, and now they need to launder it. After lending out a couple thousand dollars here and there, with hopes of getting a small return, all kinds of "investment opportunities" are coming out of the woodwork, and one of them has trouble written all over it. The brother of Desmond's ex-wife wants a...
Author
Series
Bower boys volume 1
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ten years after being forced into witness protection because of his father's crimes, a man devises a creative way to win back his high school sweetheart when a change in fortune gives them a second chance.
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
8) Prodigal son
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed-in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Small-town attorney Cam is happy to help his sister-in-law's best friend, Grace, out of a legal jam, but as their feelings for one another intensify, Cam realizes that he has more at stake than just earning a favorable verdict.
10) The nightworkers
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shecky Keenan, the head of a Brooklyn family of money launderers, questions the trustworthiness of his closest associates in the violent aftermath of a runner's death and the disappearance of $250,000 in stolen funds.
11) Once a thief
Author
Series
Simon Riske novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Simon Riske sits in sun-dappled Napa Valley, toasting the record hundred-million-dollar sale of a rare 1963 Ferrari which he restored himself. The buyer, a sophisticated French woman, Sylvie Bettencourt, has purchased the car for an unnamed client whose anonymity she will guard at all costs. Riske enjoys her company and the flowing champagne until Sylvie's formidable Russian bodyguard storms in, claiming the vehicle is a fake. Riske is given an ultimatum....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives...
13) Graveyard bay
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The nude bodies of a corrupt judge and a Jane Doe are found under the icy, black waters at Groward Bay Marina, chained to the prongs of a mammoth fork lift. A videotape points to Merlin Finn, a ruthless gang leader with a proclivity for bondage and S&M who had recently broken out of prison. In the videotape, he's wearing a black leather bondage mask. With the newspaper she works for about to be sold and her job in jeopardy, journalist Geneva Chase...
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