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2) The exile
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-cop Finn O'Grady hasn't been home in years. But the woman he swore to protect is convinced an ancient curse has put her and her son in deadly danger. O'Grady has seen too much evil on earth to believe in the supernatural. And then the killing starts --
3) Hero
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A character driven piece tells the story of several New Yorkers - an oddball office shrink, a cluelessly competitive pastry chef, and a flirtatious security guard - reveal their eccentric private stories.
7) Edmond
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke lurching into New York City's hellish underworld. He becomes involved in a twisted game of sex, lies and murder with 3 young women.
Author
Language
English
Description
Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she's a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad's multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she's considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she's stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fianc©♭--a fellow VP--on the other side of...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor series volume 14
Language
English
Description
"Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life,...
12) Empire State
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis settles for a security guard job with the Empire State Armored Truck Company. Chris makes the mistake of mentioning the company's lax security to his best friend, Eddie, and is soon unwittingly drawn into an elaborate scheme to rob the abundant amounts of cash being stored there - resulting in the largest cash heist in U.S. History.
Author
Series
The Brown sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits--someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. When big, brooding security...
14) Triple cross
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's New Year's Eve at the Jefferson Club, a luxurious private ski resort in the mountains of southwestern Montana. Seven of the world's wealthiest men and a U.S. senator are among the guests gathered in the ballroom of the club's spectacular main lodge for a private party. Expensive champagne flows, and multibillion-dollar deals are getting done, when, at the stroke of midnight, a ruthless and well-armed militia attacks the club. Self-described antiglobalists,...
16) Appaloosa
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two gunmen-for-hire arrive to defend the titular town from a ruthless rancher who killed the sheriff.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A young woman and an unlikely partner race to capture her grandmother's fading memories and find the fortune they both desperately need before treasure hunters claim it for themselves.
19) P2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve and Angela Bridges, who is an ambitious young executive, is working late before she leaves for her family's holiday party. When she gets down to the parking garage, she discovers that her car won't start. The garage is deserted and her cell phone won't get a signal underground. When Thomas, a friendly security guard, comes along and offers his help, Angela nervously accepts his gesture of good will. When his attempt to start her...
20) The big boom
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Edgar Award-winning author Domenic Stansberry is known for his intensity--his dark thrillers, thick with suspense, in which the differences between good and evil are not so easy to decipher. The Big Boom is just such a novel: set in San Francisco, at the peak of the high-tech frenzy, just before the technology markets and the California economy all go bust.
The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon,...