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1) Trap line
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A Key West fishing captain takes on Florida's drug lords in this "splendidly written" crime story coauthored by the #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist (The New York Times Book Review).
Though he is one of Key West's most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albury barely ekes out a living on the meager earnings of his trade. Meanwhile, Cuban and Colombian drug smugglers thrive all around—and they have their sights...
Though he is one of Key West's most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albury barely ekes out a living on the meager earnings of his trade. Meanwhile, Cuban and Colombian drug smugglers thrive all around—and they have their sights...
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"The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel." — James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly
From acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained—a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the American dream.
Banks's searing
...3) Powder burn
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A Miami hit-and-run witness winds up as bait for drug smugglers—in an “explosive” novel cowritten by the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Monkey (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Chris Meadows’s charmed life as an up-and-coming architect in Coconut Grove has kept him far removed from Miami’s bloody drug trade. But his comfortable existence comes
4) American pain: how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
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The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortress-like former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscle-heads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the pharmacy, counting out pills and stashing cash in garbage...
5) Moonlight
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A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
7) Drive
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Blazing Miami sun. Cool classic cars. Dangerous undercover assignment. In Sidney Bristol's scorching new Hot Rides series, the cars are fast and the romance is furious...
Aiden DeHart has a history—and secrets. His classic car garage is a front for an FBI operation. His current mission: get some evidence from a drug dealer's ex-wife, then get out. Madison Haughton sending his engine into overdrive isn't part of the plan, though, especially...
Aiden DeHart has a history—and secrets. His classic car garage is a front for an FBI operation. His current mission: get some evidence from a drug dealer's ex-wife, then get out. Madison Haughton sending his engine into overdrive isn't part of the plan, though, especially...
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In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove's Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. It was a hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday--and an inspiration for the film, Scarface. Three waves of Cuban immigrants vied to dominate the trafficking, but as the kilos--and bodies--began to pile up, the Mutiny became target number one for law enforcement....
9) Cat chaser
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The hero of "Cat Chaser, " George Moran, isn't looking for trouble but finds it anyway when he winds up in bed with the wife of a drug-dealing mob-connected Dominican cop -- vicious, macho and ready to follow George to the ends of the earth, which in this case means Miami.
10) Miami vice
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Ricardo Tubbs lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy. The two work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group. He becomes romantically involved with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication...
11) Picture me dead
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AN ARRESTING AFFAIR Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police trainingbut nothing has prepared her for the shocking discovery of a body on the highway. When she links the body to Detective Jake Dilessios case, they are forced to work together to find the killer. The body discovered has marks identical to the victims of a cult leader Jake put behind bars five years ago. Is this a copycat killing, or have Jakes deepest fears been realized? Is...
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Lost to the streets ... lost forever.
This is the story of Chastity. Born into poverty to an addict mother who was eventually claimed by her addiction to drugs, Chastity is then taken in by her grandmother, the only person to ever really love Chastity like her own. But her sudden passing would leave Chastity alone, yet again. Chastity's uncle would then step forward. Offering to take her in. An arrangement that quickly dissolves when Chastity begins...
13) Miami vice
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After a tragic security breach in the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force. Since they are not part of the compromised group, the FBI askes for help from the Miami authorities. This assignment goes to Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett and Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs. Going undercover as Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper, the two become offshore boat racers and outlaw smugglers. They take on the narcotrafficking network of the mysterious Archangel de Jesus Montoya-Londono...
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"Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friends -- clean-cut, all-American high school kids -- who stumbled into the Sunshine State's murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription painkillers through the country, making millions in the process. This true crime memoir details the three-year-long rise and collapse of the Barabas...
15) Cocaine cowboys
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The cocaine trade of the '70s and '80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed the once sleepy retirement community and turned it into one of the world's most glamorous hot spots and the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin Cartel. By the early '80s, Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder captial of the country.
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"Set in the 1980s Florida of Miami Vice, this is the unbelievable, unforgettable, unparalleled story of an ordinary guy whose attempts to become famous doing the thing he wanted most--become a world class race car driver--devolved into a you-can't-make-this-up tale of one of the biggest crime rings and drug scandals of the 1980s. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baime, Randy tells the whole truth for the first time ever,...
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"When an international drug smuggler makes a life-changing decision, he finds himself pursuing a different type of thrill all the way into eternity. With a hunger for excitement, Freddie Crow becomes an international smuggler, piloting planeloads of marijuana from Belize, Central America, into various areas of North Florida. Because flying drugs into the United States requires avoiding radar detection and nerves of steel, Freddie eagerly embraces...
19) Free ride
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Based on a true story. In search of a better life for her family and desperate to escape her tumultuous relationship, Christina hastily moves to Florida and enters the dangerous world of the high-stakes underground drug scene. She quickly learns that dealing drugs at the height of South Florida's smuggling heyday has its price. As law enforcement closes in on Christina and her drug operation, she must find a way to salvage the life she has desperately...
20) Scarface
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Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, this time set in Miami, Florida, in the 1980s, after the Mariel boatlift brought thousands of Cuban refugees to the United States. Tony Montana is the new Scarface, finding wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams. He loved The American Dream, with a vengeance. In the spring of 1980, the port of Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American...