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Series
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
To recover an African artifact, St. Ives will trade $250,000, or his life. Philip St. Ives is the kind of man who can convince a vice cop and a paroled mobster to sit down to a hand of poker. Once he was a reporter with a daily column, a fat Rolodex, and a reputation for indifference to criminal behavior. Now he is a go-between, a professional mediator between thieves and the people they rip off. For arranging the recovery of a stolen necklace, painting,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist--never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted its mount in the Washington merry-go-round, is wary. So wary that he cuts in con man "Otherguy" Overby, who in turn involves Artie Wu, pretender to the throne of China, and his partner, Quincy Durant....
5) Briarpatch
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"America's best storyteller." -The New York Times Book Review
From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man's personal mission to find justice for his family. Now the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by Sam Esmail, creator of Mr. Robot.
A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity-born on the same...
Author
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two hard-nosed bosses scrap for control of America's largest union Born to a steelworker but harboring theatrical aspirations, Donald Cubbin grew up tempted by two careers. A Hollywood scout finally notices him, but Cubbin has already taken a job with the local union boss. He's always regretted that decision-especially now. After decades climbing the ranks, Cubbin runs the show as the union's president. An election looms, and his opponent proves...
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A freelance fixer comes out of retirement to rescue the President's kidnapped brother American agents abduct a high-profile terrorist in broad daylight on the streets of London, subduing him with a tranquilizer. He dies a few hours later on a flight back to Washington, DC, and the body is dropped into the ocean. Hours later, the President's brother-a political powerhouse in his own right-boards a plane to Las Vegas that doesn't land in Nevada....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
Mysterious Press ed.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Washington saloonkeepers/intelligence operatives McCorkle and Padillo must use all their cunning when political enemies, as well as American oil companies, attempt to take the crown--and the life--of a soon-to-be monarch.
18) Missionary stew
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st St. Martin's Minotaur ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Missionary Stew follows political fund-raiser Draper Haere on a quest to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an unnamed Central American country. Haere seeks the information in order to get dirt on his boss's opponent in the 1984 US Presidential election. Haere's pursuit of the truth repeatedly puts Haere's life in danger, as the powers-that-be stop at nothing to keep the episode buried. Along the way, Haere carries on an affair with the...
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie is a dedicated ice skater who dreams of Olympic gold. Alex is a chilled-out in-liner who shreds for the thrills. Coached by her medal-winning parents whose hearts collided in the original The Cutting Edge; this couple goes for the gold.
