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"Former assassin Evan Smoak is using his deadly skills to assist Max Merriweather, a guy down on his luck, whose cousin's murder has brought him to the attention of an Armenian street gang involved in a money-laundering scheme. It seems like an easy enough task for the Nowhere Man, but as soon as he eliminates one threat, a more powerful one appears, and getting to the top of the pyramid requires courage, wit, creativity, and a lot of specialty weapons....

"As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name - The Nowhere Man - and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer - in exchange for an...

Katrina's whole life has been a cover, a con, a lie. She never lets anyone get too close-- until Cole. He is tough, sexy, and intensely loyal, yet his secrets are dark and his scars run deep. Not many women can handle his past, or the truth behind his fierce demands. But something about him beckons-- and desire is a game Katrina must play. What is passion without a little risk?

"While seeking to prove his Ferrari's authenticity and expose the real identity of the buyer, freelance private spy Simon Riske crosses paths with Anna Bildt, who, looking into her father's murder, discovers that they have a common enemy as they are forced to play a deadly game."--

A crooked father and an honest son are the protagonists of this novel on money laundering. The father is Tiger Single, owner of a British investment house, laundering money for criminals. His dream is to see his son follow in his footsteps, but the son is honest and will not have anything to do with him--until the father's life is threatened.

"When he stumbles upon the ultra-wealthy's newest mark-California's Department of Corrections, Martin Hench, a self-employed forensic accountant, discovers they will stop at nothing to extract money from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy."--

"A debut crime novel about a quirky money launderer, his artist/bagman nephew, and his thief niece"-- Bank accounts have closed unexpectedly, a strange car has been parked near the house at odd hours, and Emil Scott, the Keenan family's new runner, is missing-- along with the $250,000 of dirty money he was carrying. Shecky Keenan lives in old Brooklyn with his niece Kerasha and nephew Henry. Shecky moves money for an array of unsavory clients, and...

"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...

"New York financier Jeffrey Blaine covers up a rape at his daughter's eighteenth birthday party and exposes himself to a scandel that could ruin him. He is saved by a young man named Chet Fiore, but only later does Jeffrey learn that Chet is a rising figure in organized crime." --