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1) Raylan
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 3
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English
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When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
2) Cari Mora
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"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
4) Vulture peak
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John Burdett's Bangkok series, featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, has a reputation for being simultaneously morbid and witty. In Vulture Peak, Sonchai is tasked with ending human organ trafficking in Thailand. Before long he's wrapped up with a cast of characters that includes a washed-up rock star and a pair of Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And to complicate matters even further, Sonchai must also battle his ever-increasing...
5) The slaughter: mass killings, organ harvesting, and China's secret solution to its dissident problem
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"The inside story of China's organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of this comprehensive investigation into the Chinese state's secret program to get rid of political dissidents while profiting from the sale of their organs--in many cases to Western recipients. Based on...
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Okwe is an illegal immigrant living in London. He was a doctor in his homeland and now works two jobs - during the day as a taxi driver, at night as a hotel desk clerk. When a prostitute tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. Using his previous knowledge of medicine, he begins to solve the case of where the heart came from and soon delves into the world of body organ black-markets. He finds...
10) Inhale
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A district attorney is desperate to save the life of his daughter, desperate enough to head to Mexico and gamble everything on getting her the illegal organs she needs to live. A searing suspense-thriller that proves breaking the law is the least a father will do to save someone he loves.
11) Traffickers
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Korean
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Entering international waters where countries' laws cannot be enforced, an ongoing black-market organ-trafficking operation is on board.
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A shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market. Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts. The Red Market reveals the rise, fall, and resurgence of this multibillion-dollar underground trade through history, from early medical study and modern universities to poverty-ravaged...
13) Tezcatlipoca
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After war with a rival cartel, a drug lord meets a Japanese organ broker, and soon the two travel to Japan for a new business in the organ trade, but while there he takes a young, lonely boy under his wing, and the three lives gradually become entangled in a web of crime and violence.
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"Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies. Elena Kelly is a body broker or "corpse wrangler," one of the best in her field. When she became too ambitious, cut too many corners and too many ethical (and legal) safeguards, she ran afoul of the law and medical profession, triggering a huge scandal in Louisville, Kentucky that quickly went national. She lost everything...
18) Śpijcie, kotki
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Tom Stilton we współpracy z komisarz Mette Olsäter i Olivią Rönning bierze udział w dochodzeniu w sprawie morderstwa nastolatka, którego ciało znaleziono w lesie w Smalandii. W pobliżu znajdują nóż z inskrypcją, która wskazuje, że chłopiec mógł paść ofiarą rumuńskiego gangu. Mette Olsäter wysyła Stiltona i Olivię do Bukaresztu, gdzie wpadają na trop makabrycznej organizacji handlującej ludzkimi organami. Odkrycie sprawia,...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 633
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Español
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"Esta es una novela sobre varias personas cuya suerte queda ligada por un corazón. No se trata de un corazón simbólico, sino de un órgano que palpita y da la vida... y también la muerte. Esta es una novela sobre dos familias y dos continentes. Un hombre es ajusticiado en una cárcel china y sus órganos son objeto de tráfico. Su corazón acaba alojado en el pecho de un norteamericano, y ese trasplante marcará el futuro de las siguientes generaciones....
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"Malachi is a mute thirty-year-old man, performing mind-numbing factory work, when he gets an extraordinary job offer. In exchange for six months as a warden on a top-secret organ-farming project, Frasier Pharmaceuticals will gift Malachi the power of speech and graft him a new tongue, after his was cut out when he was a boy... Far out to sea on an oilrig, Malachi finds himself among warlords and mass murderers. But are the prisoner-donors as evil...
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