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"Malachi is a mute thirty-year-old man, performing mind-numbing factory work, when he gets an extraordinary job offer. In exchange for six months as a warden on a top-secret organ-farming project, Frasier Pharmaceuticals will gift Malachi the power of speech and graft him a new tongue, after his was cut out when he was a boy... Far out to sea on an oilrig, Malachi finds himself among warlords and mass murderers. But are the prisoner-donors as evil...
2) Raylan
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 3
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When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
3) Cari Mora
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"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
5) Vulture peak
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John Burdett's Bangkok series, featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, has a reputation for being simultaneously morbid and witty. In Vulture Peak, Sonchai is tasked with ending human organ trafficking in Thailand. Before long he's wrapped up with a cast of characters that includes a washed-up rock star and a pair of Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And to complicate matters even further, Sonchai must also battle his ever-increasing...
8) Tezcatlipoca
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After war with a rival cartel, a drug lord meets a Japanese organ broker, and soon the two travel to Japan for a new business in the organ trade, but while there he takes a young, lonely boy under his wing, and the three lives gradually become entangled in a web of crime and violence.
11) Dead tomorrow
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Roy Grace novels volume 5
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When three nameless bodies are recovered from the sea, their vital organs mysteriously removed, Grace is called in to determine where the victims came from. As the investigation builds momentum, he unearths the trail of a gang of human traffickers operating from Eastern Europe.
12) Śpijcie, kotki
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Tom Stilton we współpracy z komisarz Mette Olsäter i Olivią Rönning bierze udział w dochodzeniu w sprawie morderstwa nastolatka, którego ciało znaleziono w lesie w Smalandii. W pobliżu znajdują nóż z inskrypcją, która wskazuje, że chłopiec mógł paść ofiarą rumuńskiego gangu. Mette Olsäter wysyła Stiltona i Olivię do Bukaresztu, gdzie wpadają na trop makabrycznej organizacji handlującej ludzkimi organami. Odkrycie sprawia,...
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Police detective Ben Westphall is burnt out and leading a quiet life in the North of Scotland. Things change when he's assigned to investigate the cold case of a UK national who disappeared in Eastern Europe under mysterious circumstances and who, despite being declared dead, has re-appeared, claiming to have been held for over a decade, various body parts having been harvested during that time. Westphall travels to Estonia, chasing leads and shadows...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 633
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"Esta es una novela sobre varias personas cuya suerte queda ligada por un corazón. No se trata de un corazón simbólico, sino de un órgano que palpita y da la vida... y también la muerte. Esta es una novela sobre dos familias y dos continentes. Un hombre es ajusticiado en una cárcel china y sus órganos son objeto de tráfico. Su corazón acaba alojado en el pecho de un norteamericano, y ese trasplante marcará el futuro de las siguientes generaciones....
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"Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies. Elena Kelly is a body broker or "corpse wrangler," one of the best in her field. When she became too ambitious, cut too many corners and too many ethical (and legal) safeguards, she ran afoul of the law and medical profession, triggering a huge scandal in Louisville, Kentucky that quickly went national. She lost everything...