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Un héroe cuya arma favorita es un martillo... claramente tiene problemas
Joe es un ex marine y ex agente del FBI, solitario y perseguido, que prefiere ser invisible. No se permite ni amigos ni amantes y se gana la vida rescatando jóvenes de las garras de los tratantes de blancas.
Un político lo contrata para que rescate a su hija de un burdel de Manhattan, y entonces Joe descubre una intrincada red de corrupción que llega a lo más alto. Cuando...
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Mauricio, Marco y Karla son tres estudiantes cuyas vidas cambian a partir del regalo que un extrao les hace. Una peculiar llave inservible que se activa luego de la visita a unas ruinas de la cultura Maya, dndoles la posibilidad de romper la barrera del tiempo y visitar pocas distantes a la suya. Sin embargo, Sugeyri, una joven con un pasado difcil, los tiene en la mira, pues para cumplir con su cometido, ella debe de hacerse de dicha llave, sin importarle...
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It's August, 1968 and the Students for a Democratic Society and thousands of anti-war protesters are converging on Chicago for the Democratic National convention. Sean McDermott, a Northwestern University seminarian, is tossed off the chapel tower by two Viet Nam mercenaries nicknamed Heckle and Jeckle. The mercenaries were convinced Sean knew the whereabouts of seven golden Buddhas originally stolen from the Thien Mu Pagoda in Viet Nam during the...
84) the Semper Fi
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The Six-Chambered Heart, book 1 in An American Crime Trilogy, follows Maddock, a Denver private investigator returning from Chicago where he has meted out revenge for the killing of his buddy Charlie by a powerful crime family.
'the Semper Fi', book 2 in 'An American Crime Trilogy', finds the protagonist Maddock hurriedly leaving Denver, on his way south, eventually to Florida, after putting in motion the elements of a scheme designed to ensnare...
85) Efecto colateral
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La tranquila vida de Tomás Montes en la ciudad de Lleida da un giro cuando la muerte inesperada de su padre desencadena unos hechos que lo llevan a un profundo pozo y una ineludible solución: la venganza, cueste lo que cueste.
Para ello, y con la ayuda de sus amigos de infancia, Antonio y Julián, idean un plan que se inicia con el robo de una misteriosa caja que contiene secretos suficientes como para hundir a gente muy poderosa. Sin embargo, una...
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Foggy Moscowitz is shocked when ID found on a body in the bay suggests it's his close Brooklyn friend, Pan Pan Washington, and the car involved belongs to one of their old associates, Sammy 'Icepick' Franks. What message is Icepick trying to send Foggy, and why? The children who found the body were looking for their mother – one of twenty-seven women missing from John Horse's Seminole tribe, and Foggy immediately takes the pair under his wing as...
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An ex-cop with a past. A case police couldn't solve. One chance at redemption...Ex-New York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge.
But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled local police, he unwittingly joins a world of criminals, corruption, and cops that will do anything to stop him.
Now, in a country he doesn't understand and a city stacked...
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A killer is moving through the city in darkness. He's raping and murdering women, and leaving nothing in his wake but a tell-tale calling card: a pyramid. For one woman, it's paint cans stacked against a wall. For another, it's a mound of dirt over her face in a shallow grave. For another it's carved into her forehead.
Come along in this fast-paced mystery as Detective Lou Galecki and his partner, Detective Joe Balducci, look to set things right....
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Inspector Bobby Cash of the Chicago PD and his partner, Kodak, have investigated many a homicide in their combined years on the force, but nothing like the new serial killer on the scene called, "the BUTCHER" by the Chicago press. During his investigation he inherits not only money but an unexpected romance as well . This book does contain graphic language.
93) Club Morocco
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These events took place during prohibition, World War II, and the time after the war was won, during the '40s and '50s. The immigrants and first- and second-generation Americans were closely loved family members who always had one another's back while striving to reach their dreams of security and wealth.
It's a story of a young family member who experienced most of what happened, good and bad, in life at a young age. Each individual is based upon...
95) City Of Fools
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A seemingly typical cold blooded gang killing between Boston's Rox Boys and their rivals, the Pan Man Klan, leads Private Eye Jake Rossi down a perilous path unearthing a terrorist plot set to cripple Boston's infamous Big Dig and shut down the city. Private Investigator Jake Rossi, the protagonist in CITY OF FOOLS, is a tougher, yet more flawed and vulnerable version of Spenser (in Robert Parker's SPENSER FOR HIRE novels). When 19-year-old Jimmy...
96) Murder My Past
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Alluring lost wives. Vengeful academic superstars.
A memory-plagued widow. A detective on the edge.
Harlem private eye SJ Rook wants to forget his past. Ex-soldier, ex-drunk, ex-tramp are titles he's eager to bury. He's building a new life at a neighborhood detective agency. And, he's working on a solid relationship with his crime-fighting partner, Sabrina Ross. But without warning, Rook's past returns with a vengeance in the enticing form of his...
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CORRUPTION IS EVERYWHERE Near San Francisco, a small town is riddled with bad cops and cocaine dealers MILL VALLEY sits nestled in the shadow of the Sleeping Princess Mountain in southern Marin County and, at first glance, appears to be a quiet, tranquil little town populated by rock stars, writers, and artists. But a closer look reveals a dark side: corruption has reached the top levels of the police department, and white powder cocaine is the locals...
98) Fury
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Frank Corso is a pariah-a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on Death Row was a lie. Convicted of the savage slaying of eight Seattle women, Himes is only six days from execution, unless Frank Corso and outcast photographer Meg Dougherty into a struggle that goes far beyond...
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Se hace extraño regresar a donde una vez fuiste feliz. Volver a pisar las calles que solían oírte reír antes de que todo se nublara. Yo he decidido volver a Playa Blanca, una ver todo ha terminado, pero me cuesta sentirme en casa en lugar de como un extraño.
Cuesta tanto como intentar escribir sin errar una y otra vez las teclas, ahora que no escucho su respiración dormida a mi lado. Dudo que nada decente pueda salir de estos dedos anquilosados,...
100) The Mystery Caller
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When a man receives a strange phone call from an unknown voice, he is instantly shocked with fear. The mystery caller tells him that there is an atom bomb in the city that will explode and kill everyone unless he stops it. Can the man find and diffuse the bomb before it's too late and everyone dies? This short story is packed with action, and will leave you on the edge of the seat from the fast paced beginning to the terrifying end!
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