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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A rogue American Special Forces unit schemes to smuggle $35 million worth of heroin into the United States, and all that stands in its way is border patrol agent Jack Robideaux, an ex-homicide cop with a hidden agenda. Taking on suicide bombers, sadistic torturers and traitorous officials on both sides of the border, Jack shows no mercy as he single-handedly attempts to destroy the cartel.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Half-vampire Lee Nez's second outing (after Second Sunrise, 2002) has him facing enemies old and new. Lee and FBI agent Diane Lopez have just survived a showdown with a dangerous group of "skinwalkers" (shape-shifters who can transform into animal form) when they are called away to a jewelry-smuggling case that led to the deaths of two undercover officers. When Lee and Diane learn that the smugglers are skinwalkers, they realize it will be necessary...
84) Virtues of war
Author
Series
Virtues of war volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Lieutenant Katja Emmes is assigned to the fast-attack craft Rapier, joining a mission to investigate weapons smuggling activity between the Terran colonies of Sirius and Centauria. If true, this act of rebellion could escalate rapidly, and lead to all-out war.
85) Redback
Author
Series
John Marquez crime novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Description
June 1989. Tijuana, US-Mexico border. A DEA undercover operation goes horribly wrong and informant Billy Takado lies dead, gunned down at point-blank range. The fallout costs Special Agent John Marquez his DEA career. Eighteen years later, Marquez is working for California's Department of Fish and Game when the past returns. The FBI is targeting the shadowy empire of drug cartel moneyman Emrahain Stoval. Frustrated by their inability to charge and...
87) The monkey thief
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While visiting his uncle in a Costa Rican rain forest, Steve meets a monkey which he wants to tame and a smuggler who forces him to some very responsible decisions.
89) The protector
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A martial arts expert travels from Thailand to Australia to reclaim prized elephants stolen by a gang trafficking endangered species.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sent to live with relatives in New Orleans during the War of 1812, eleven-year-old Elisabet determines to find a smuggler's treasure to ransom her imprisoned father.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel and loses an Oregon crew member in the process, he's determined to get revenge. Little does he know that the explosion he just narrowly escaped was merely the latest flash of violence from a machine of war that has existed for decades, dating from the bloodiest episode in Armenia's history. With millions of innocent civilians hanging in the balance, the Oregon's...
92) Coyote justice
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
When the battered and beaten dead body of a young Latin American woman washes up in a flooded creek on her father's three-thousand-acre three-bar D ranch in the sleepy village of Echo, Colorado, medical examiner Jess Doogan makes a horrifying discovery. The dead woman had been surgically implanted with heroin and even more frightening, a GPS tacking device. That meant whoever was using her as a mule would be coming for her! When Las Vegas FBI field...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing.
94) Sand wars
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
A surprising investigation into one of the most consumed natural resources on the planet. The planet's sand reserves are being threatened. Three-quarters of the world's beaches are in decline as victims of erosion or 'sand mafias.' But what will be the consequences of sand extraction on the environment and life on the planet?
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt volume 14
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Dirk Pitt faces the most formidable foe of his career when he encounters billionaire shipping magnate Qin Shang who is obsessed with salvaging the Princess Dou Wan, a ship reportedly loaded with Chinese art treasures--including the bones of Peking Man.
97) Artemisa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Jazz Bashara es una criminal O al menos lo parece. La vida en Artemisa, la primera y unica ciudad de la Luna, es dificil si no eres un turista adinerado o un multimillonario excentrico. Asi que hacer un poco de contrabando de lo mas inofensivo no cuenta, verdad? Sobre todo cuando hay que pagar deudas y tu trabajo como transportista apenas paga el alquiler. De pronto, Jazz ve la oportunidad de cambiar su destino cometiendo un delito a cambio de una...
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 4
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As soon as twelve-year-old Steve Brixton opens a detective office in his backyard, he and his best friend Dana are caught up in a tangle of cases, from breaking up a ring of piratical smugglers, to recovering a stolen surfboard, to tracking down a fifth-grader's missing gym shorts.
100) Shell Games
Author
Series
John Marquez crime novels volume 1
Description
Involved in an investigation into an abalone poaching operation that leads to murder, Lieutenant John Marquez discovers that his own life is in danger from Kline, a vicious drug smuggler and abalone poacher with a grudge against Marquez.