Kirk Russell
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John Marquez crime novels volume 3
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Named one of the top ten crime novels of 2005 by the American Library Association, Dead Game marks the return of "far and away the most inventive new detective hero" (Booklist). Ex-DEA agent John Marquez, now head of the undercover unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, is closing in on sturgeon poachers, whose highly profitable caviar trade is backed by the Russian mafia. When his key confidential informant disappears, Marquez follows...
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John Marquez crime novels volume 1
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The discovery of thousands of empty abalone shells and two murdered divers sends Lieutenant John Marquez's poaching investigation in a newand very riskydirection. Former DEA agent and now head of a special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, Marquez learns he himself has been targeted as the next victim. Stalking him is Kline, a vicious drug smuggler turned abalone poacher who has a vendetta against Marquez. John Marquez
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Ben Raveneau mysteries volume 3
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"Bones in a backyard bomb shelter reactivate a San Francisco cold case and a painful connection for Raveneau after missing Ann Coryell?s desperate call for help a decade ago. But he sees something much darker in threats made by online followers of historian Coryell?s writings on genocide. Nothing pieces together, but all the pieces fit ... Raveneau edges closer to a core group who are certain the time for retribution is now, but will he be able to...
4) Night game
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John Marquez crime novels volume 2
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Former DEA agent John Marquez brings gritty investigative techniques and a clouded past to his role as head of a special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game. In the second thrilling case of this masterful series, Marquez and his team's cover is blown, leaving him caught between a ruthless band of bear poachers, a corrupt local game warden, and a county detective obsessed with a murderer-at-large. Meanwhile, Marquez's own...
5) Redback
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John Marquez crime novels volume 4
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Eighteen years after a botched undercover operation ended his DEA career, John Marquez is contacted by former colleague Ted Desault who needs his help in taking down criminal mastermind Emrahain Stoval, who is also linked to Marquez's past.
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John Marquez crime novels volume 5
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Lieutenant John Marquez has a new role - but his mission remains the same. Still attached to the California Fish and Game's Special Operations Unit, it's the open, unsolved animal trafficking investigations that now land on his desk. He's on the hunt for a notorious trafficker named Rider, who's rumoured to have a hideout in mountainous northern California. Then a tip comes. The call reveals the location of a gun used to kill two young women camping...
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San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau, and his ambitious new partner, Elizabeth la Rosa, catch their first case together when a young woman is found strangled in an empty building in China Basin. The victim's identity is unknown, a false confession leads nowhere, and the case spins unresolved. Meanwhile, the death of cancer-ridden homicide inspector Ted Whitacre raises questions about an old case Whitacre solved years before when he arrested...
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Paul Grale thriller volume 1
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While in Las Vegas on his way to a family Fourth of July celebration, FBI bomb expert Paul Grale hears a deep blast and sees the smoke rising. In an unfolding nightmare, Grale discovers his sister, brother-in-law, and many friends were caught up in the explosion. Grief stricken, he is pulled from the main bomb investigation to sift orphan leads. Quietly he begins a relentless search for the bomb maker. When the FBI suspects his friend and disgruntled...
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"It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." — WILLIAM F BUCKLEY
"A profound critique of contemporary mass society, and a vivid and poetic image - not a program, an image - of how that society might better itself. [ The Conservative Mind ] is, in important respects, the twentieth century's own version of the Reflections on the Revolution...
"A profound critique of contemporary mass society, and a vivid and poetic image - not a program, an image - of how that society might better itself. [ The Conservative Mind ] is, in important respects, the twentieth century's own version of the Reflections on the Revolution...
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"Twenty-two years to the day, a videotape of an unsolved 1989 murder arrives at the San Francisco Homicide Detail. So begins homicide inspector Ben Raveneau's toughest cold case. The victim, Alan Krueger, a former Secret Service agent, carried in his coat sixty-one $100 bills. In 1989, the Secret Service inspected the bills and called them legitimate. They take another look now and say, counterfeit. But there's more. There's a link to the present...