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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling...
Author
Series
Men who walk the edge of honor volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Undercover mercenary Trace Rivers loves the adrenaline rush of a well-planned mission. First, he'll earn the trust of corrupt businessman Murray Coburn, then gather the proof he needs to shut down the man's dirty smuggling operation. It's a perfect scheme - until Coburn's long-lost daughter saunters in with her own deadly plan for revenge. Priscilla Patterson isn't who she seems to be. But neither is the gorgeous bodyguard who ignites all her senses....
3) Wrecker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don’t want Wrecker to call for help—in fact, they’ll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West—at...
Author
Series
Jazz age series (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of The Edge of Town comes a novel about the Prohibition era and a young girl who must choose between a bootlegging father and the lawman on his trail.
Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house in Missouri. Anabel is glad that she was able to finish high school before the move, but has resigned herself to the fact that her father's bootlegging...
Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house in Missouri. Anabel is glad that she was able to finish high school before the move, but has resigned herself to the fact that her father's bootlegging...
Author
Language
English
Description
The dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.
Author
Series
Men who walk the edge of honor volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spencer Lark already knows too much about Arizona Storm, including the nightmare she survived. But in order to expose a smuggling ring, the bounty hunter reluctantly agrees to use her as a decoy. Arizona wants to reclaim her life, which means acting as bait to lure the enemy into a trap. Sure it's dangerous, especially with a partner as distractingly appealing as Spencer. But as their plan - and their chemistry - shift into high gear, there may be...
7) Trackers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lemmer, a highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa, where the rural tranquility has helped to calm his explosive temper. When a wealthy farmer asks for his help in smuggling a pair of rare black rhinos out of Zimbabwe (where they are murdered for their horns), he has a hard time saying no. Before he knows it, Lemmer is on a small airplane, zipping across the border, an airsickness...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A frozen body is found on top of Vermont's tallest mountain in middle of winter. Lost hiker or foul play? It's hard to say, until the marble-hard body is thawed out, revealing oddly old-fashioned clothes, an ice-pick wound to the heart, and a Canadian driver's license dating back 50 years. Identified as an old-time smuggler from Sherbrooke, Quebec, and the patriarch of a now powerful crime syndicate, the body reveals further clues--and points the...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Thai
Description
When a crime boss is murdered, all evidence points to Kham (Tony Jaa). Forced to run as he fights to clear his name, he is hunted by not only the police, but from the boss' vengeful twin nieces and LC, a crime lord and scores of crooked politicians.
10) Criminal gold
Author
Series
Cantor Gold crime novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Midnight, New York Harbor, 1949. Cantor Gold, dapper dyke-about-town, smuggler of fine art, waits in her boat under the Brooklyn Bridge for racketeer Gregory Ortine. In the shadow of the bridge, he'll toss Cantor a satchel of cash, and she'll toss him a pouch containing a priceless jewel. But the plan, and the jewel, sink when a woman in a red sequined dress drops from the bridge and slams onto Cantor's boat. She is Opal Shaw, Society Page darling...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 10
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
©1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Joe Hardy is kidnapped by a gang of jewel smugglers as a warning for the Hardy Boys' father to stay away from their operation.
13) The twisted claw
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 18
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Hardy boys embark on another puzzling mystery when they try to discover who is stealing rare collections of ancient pirate treasure and smuggling them out of the United States.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 13
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The search for a stolen boat leads the Hardy brothers to Mexico where they become involved with a band of Indians and a strange smuggling operation.
15) Bare bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her plans for a romantic vacation interrupted by the discoveries of two murdered bodies and a small plane crash, Tempe Brennan traces leads to an isolated North Carolina farm.
16) Rebelwing
Author
Series
Rebelwing volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At New Columbia Preparatory Academy in a near-future Washington, D.C., black market smuggler Prudence Wu and friends Anabel, Alex, and Cat become key players in a conflict with the United Continental Confederacy.
17) Words on fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
18) Silver lady
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sense of duty sends Bran Tremayne to Cornwall to confront his heritage of British nobility. Abandoned at birth, Bran wants nothing to do with the embittered remains of his family. But as a special agent for the Home Office, he senses trouble brewing along the coast. And he can't turn away from the vulnerable woman he encounters in the Cornish countryside. Merryn's amnesia makes her past a mystery to them both, but with her life in danger, the only...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
An action-filled chase through the Amazon jungle for 16th Century Spanish treasure. Joining in the pursuit are Dirk Pitt, the hero, his congresswoman girlfriend, the FBI, the Customs Service, archaeologists, a tribe of local Indians, smugglers and various thieves. There's plenty of treasure for everyone, the gold requiring 200 men just to lift.
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