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201) The big lie
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 16
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the Electoral College battle for the White House lands in a Florida courtroom, Miami attorney Jack Swyteck has never felt farther from the truth, fighting for a faithless elector, caught between a corrupt president and his manipulative opponent--with each revelation more explosive than the next. The country is reeling. For the sixth time in American history, the winner of the popular vote will not occupy the Oval Office. President Malcolm MacLeod,...
Author
Series
Transmetropolitan volume 9
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Jerusalem and his cohorts step up their investigation into Callahan's misdeeds and turn up some startling evidence...not to mention a sole surviving witness to the President's depravity. The problem, as always, will be getting the word out before the massive forces of the Executive Branch black out everything--and everyone--involved."--Amazon.com.
203) All that is hidden
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Description
""Retired" detective and police captain's wife Molly Murphy Sullivan tangles with Tammany Hall in the next in Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles's New York Times bestselling historical mystery series. New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place in the world. She and her policeman husband, Daniel, have built quite a life for themselves in Greenwich Village, in their modest-yet-beautiful-home in Patchin Place,...
204) Field of battle
Author
Series
Semiotext(e) intervention volume 27
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Field of Battle presents the world today as nothing less than a war in progress, with Mexico an illustrative microcosm of the developing geopolitical scenario: a battlefield in which violence, drug trafficking, and organized crime--as well as the alegal state that works alongside all of this in the guise of fighting against it--hold sway. The rule of law has been replaced by the dominance of alegality and the rise of the "a-state." This war scenario...
Author
Publisher
TrineDay
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence and organized crime directly developed the sexual blackmail tactics and networks that would later enable the sexual blackmail operation and other...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
It's 1999 in Bolivia and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space for himself in his family's cramped yet boisterous home. But when his father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system that targets the...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a fascinating ride through Brazilian politics as the author, his husband, the left-wing Congressman David Miranda, and a powerful opposition movement courageously challenge political corruption, homophobia, and tyranny in Brazil.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"American Kompromat tells the story of the unimaginably corrupt, dissolute, and decadent subculture of the most powerful people in the world and how they have orchestrated, obtained, and used kompromat--Russian for compromising information--as leverage to achieve their political goals"--
A relatively insignificant targeting operation by the KGB’s New York rezidentura (New York Station) more than forty years ago triggered a sequence of intelligence...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. 'Whitey' Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is an American original--a psychopath who fostered a following with a frightening mix of terror, deadly intimidation and the deft touch of a politician who often helped a family in need meet their monthly rent. But the history shows that despite the early...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This deeply reported insider story shows how a small group of Washington officials such as Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, and Fiona Hill forged a resistance movement against the unprecedented Trump presidency.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The shocking, definitive account of the lawyers and media tycoons who enabled the rise of Donald Trump, featuring new revelations from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal team. With his blunt-force fame and the myths hes propagated about himself, Donald Trump has always moved in a world of gossip barons, crooked lawyers, and porn stars. But when he became the Republican nominee for the presidency in 2016, all of these characters crawled out...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this final graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's international bestseller, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: If and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence,...
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this book about Rome's most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins' chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous consequences brought about at the hand of his sister Agrippina the Younger, his uncle Claudius and his nephew Nero."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
Español
Description
Desde su llegada a Los Pinos, la esposa del presidente mexicanos, Angélica Rivera, se ha visto envuelta en distintos escándalos relacionados con la adquisición de propiedades y el tráfico de influencias, además de provocar la indignación en amplios sectores de la sociedad por sostener un tren de vida ostentoso. En este contexto, la periodista Sanjuana Martínez ha escrito un perfil de La gaviota que, a partir de entrevistas, documentos y fotografías,...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist presents the story of Philip Van Cise, a rookie District Attorney who fought the KKK, organized crime, and government corruption in Denver in the 1920s and how his experiences still resonate one century later.
At the height of the 1920s, the ex-frontier town of Denver emerged from the postwar boom as the future of the American city. But the progress and opportunity masked a stew of organized crime, elaborate swindles,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An archipelago off the southern coast of Italy, Malta is a picturesque gem eroded by a climate of corruption, polarization, inequality, and a virtual absence of civic spirit. In this unpromising soil, a fearless journalist took root. Daphne Caruana Galizia fashioned herself into the country’s lonely voice of conscience, her muckraking and editorializing sending shock waves that threatened to topple those in power and made her at once the island’s...
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