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81) The expediter
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Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 13
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English
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When a confrontation between the Chinese government and Kim Jong-Il over the assassination of an intelligence general escalates into nuclear threats, special agent Kirk McGarvey is enlisted to prove that North Korea did not authorize the hit.
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"With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for."--page 4 of cover.
83) Quarry's climax
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"Memphis, 1975. “Raunchy” doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man-the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax-can keep Climer from becoming...
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The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about. Honey. As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer's cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion. A shot, under the cover of darkness, a body bleeding out in a corner, and most of Los Angeles' population of hired guns hulking,...
85) Stone cold
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Stone cold thriller volume 1
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Harvey Stone is a contract killer like no other. As the adopted son of a London crime family, the opportunities to hone his skills and perfect his bloody craft have come thick and fast. But the criminal life has taken its toll and his sights are set on retirement. To break free of the family business, Harvey is forced to take one final job. To eliminate a rival gang and assassinate the ruthless crime lord, Terry Thomson.
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"Sammy Dee is a mid-level Long Island mafioso in witness protection. Didier Onyekachukwu was the corrupt minister of finance of the former Upper Volta. Both men find themselves in middle age, living in the Southern California version of genteel poverty in a down-market condo complex called Paradise Gardens. Enter Marcy Gray, a "mature" actress barely getting by on a meager SAG pension. She is looking for a guy to help her through the duration and,...
90) Kill for me
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Victor the assassin volume 8
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"Lethal assassin Victor lands in the middle of a Guatemalan cartel war in the latest nonstop thriller from the international bestselling author of The Final Hour. KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE... Victor is the killer who always delivers...for the right price. And Heloise Salvatierra, patron of Guatemala's largest cartel, is ready and willing to pay him just that to eliminate the competition: her sister. Heloise has been battling Maria for control of the...
91) Dobry zabójca
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Polish
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Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
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When Janeia Goode, a beautiful undergrad studying psychology at Chicago State University, meets Warren Hamilton, known as Molasses --or Moe for short -- she knows he is dangerous, and yet she finds him to be exciting, mysterious, and undeniably sexy. Janeia realizes that she is a good girl in love with a bad boy -- and she must keep his life as a hit man a secret, or else.
93) The Kat trap
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Ghetto-born and street-raised, Katrina or Kat for short, is a self-proclaimed hood goddess. The product of a neglectful mother and an incarcerated father, Katrina is willing to do whatever it takes to climb - or kill - her way out of the hood.
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"After Dean Martin saves Eddie G. from being hit by a car, Eddie's torpedo buddy Jerry arrives from Brooklyn with the news: somebody's put an open contract out on him. As anybody can cash it in, pros and amateurs alike are coming out of the woodwork to have a shot. So when Eddie is asked by Frank Sinatra to go to LA to help his friend, Judy Garland, with a problem she's having, Eddie and Jerry seize the opportunity to leave Vegas"--Dust jacket.