Crime Conspiracy

Government: The Original Crime Family How the State Took the Mob’s Best Ideas and Made Them Legal Ever get the feeling that your government is just one step away from running a protection racket? Good news: it already is. Even better news: this book explains exactly how. In Government: The Original Crime Family, Joseph Sapp takes readers on a blistering, hilarious, and disturbingly accurate tour through the machinery of modern governance—and shows how it mirrors organized crime in structure, strategy, and spirit. Inside, you’ll discover: Why taxes are just protection money with better...

A sacred artifact. A burned-out detective. A trail of bodies from Brentwood to Boyle Heights... The murder of a popular university professor unearths a mystery involving a 2,000-year-old religious relic stolen by the Nazis during World War II. The object, secretly referred to as THE ANTIQUITY, is rumored to possess supernatural powers. LAPD homicide detective Jack Sheridan is skeptical... until his hunt for the killer leads him deep into a world of dark forces, shadowy characters and unexplainable incidents. For Sheridan, the most startling coincidence is personal: this case is inextricably...

Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe - a mission worth dying for. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Until he finds what she left behind.

★★★★★ “Powerful, timely thrillers with sharp commentary on wealth, power, and justice.” For readers who love Women Sleuths, Crime Fiction, Murder thrillers, Psychological thrillers and more—Tom Ford is your man! TWO BOOKS, TWO FLAWED WOMEN SLEUTHS, TWO CRIMES TO SOLVE THE SILENT WITNESS Will facing her own past destroy her? Detective Evelyn Cross is a brilliant yet haunted investigator, her career plagued by whispers of instability and a scandalous past she’s tried to bury. When she takes on the unsolved 15-year-old case of Ivy Laurent—a catatonic survivor of a brutal ...

From the Author: Don’t read this if you can’t handle finishing a book in one sitting, horrific crime scenes, or questions that mess with your morals. BUT The Izard County Incubus is a rural mystery thriller packed with fast-paced action, brutally vivid crime scenes, and psychological mayhem dripping with vigilante justice. Beta Readers Say: “It’s not as weird as you think!” and “How do you come up with this stuff?” Synopsis: Detective Dakota Diaz and Hilrey Higgins are back to investigate a twisted crime wave in the Arkansas Ozarks. A family is butchered, and one girl survives...

Laurie Ahmadi has worked as a 911 police dispatcher in her quiet Northern California town for nearly two decades. She considers the department her family; her husband, Omid, is its first Arab American chief, and their teenage daughter, Jojo, has grown up with the force. So when Laurie catches a 911 call and, to her horror, it’s Jojo, the whole department springs into action. Jojo, drugged, disoriented, and in pain, doesn’t remember how she ended up at the home of Kevin Leeds, a pro football player famous for his on-the-field activism.

The City of Winchester has long been associated with King Arthur. In the alternative city that only Tony Peterson can travel to, some people are taking the legends far too seriously. King Arthur's massive Round Table has even been stolen from the City's Great Hall. Having just got married, Tony only travels over to sort out his finances but is immediately drawn into a conspiracy to set the British Empire against the Germans and Russians. Once again, he ends up helping his friend, Inspector Frank Cosgrove to try and unravel what is going on before it is too late. Nothing is as it seems and ...

In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his New York Times best-selling book Generation Kill and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned, began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de-facto “transportation chief” of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic.

Meet Pudge — a floppy-eared, highly trained search-and-rescue beagle with a secret that not even his closest allies fully understand: he’s been through time, he's been through fire, and he’s come back with a mission that only a dog like him could carry. When Calvin Hartwell, a reclusive former cyber-operative, is pulled back into a world he thought he’d left behind, it’s not the agency that comes calling — it’s Pudge. Together, they uncover a conspiracy so deeply buried in the American Southwest that it defies logic, history, and even reality. What begins as a tactical ...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a gripping medical thriller: After recovering from coma, Ash discovers that the man who performed her brain surgery has a questionable medical experience and a dark past, starting with his medical mission in India ten years ago and ending just recently, with his wife’s suicide. Should Ash expose him, at the risk of becoming vulnerable to his revenge? In an attempt to learn more, Ash goes on a date with him. The waitress drops a pink cellphone into her hand. Then, she is killed. On the cellphone are his wife’s last words. “Perhaps...

In the bustling heart of Sydney, where the iconic harbour ferry connects the city's shores, Detective Sergeant Natalie Campbell is called to investigate when a body is pulled from the water - an apparent suicide that doesn't add up. What begins as a straightforward drowning soon reveals something far darker lurking beneath the surface of Sydney's corporate world. When the victim is identified as David Garton, a quiet accountant whose meticulous nature led him to discover financial irregularities at his shipping company, Natalie must navigate both the complex currents of Sydney Harbour and ...

Jack Reacher reunites with the survivors of his old Army investigative team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. In a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back at them.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF RATCATCHER AND OMEGA DOG ***** "Masterful nonstop actioner... superb, intelligent and filled with energy." - O. Barnack, Amazon reviewer ***** "...Knocks the ball right over the deepest part of the left field fence... an old-fashioned page turner filled with chills, thrills and suspense..." - William Wallace, Goodreads reviewer ***** "What a fantastic read!" - Leevora, Amazon reviewer ***** "Awesome book... This is one book you don't want to miss out on!" - Adam Stairs, Amazon reviewer ***** "Excellent spy novel... If you love Tom Clancy and Ludlum, I think you'll really ...

Was the gas in their car better at fighting crime than the officers inside? For most of the twentieth century, leaded gas was sold in the USA. Lead is hazardous to your mental and physical health. Meanwhile, America was facing an urban crime wave, and people were moving to the safe suburbs. Twenty years after the introduction of unleaded gas in 1975, crime began to fall. The police were rewarded with tougher laws and military gear, and the prison population more than doubled. PLUMB CRAZY: The Secret History of Cops, Cars and Crime in America tells the little known story of unleaded gas and ...

Get ready for a wild ride through the small towns of Creede and Cortez in Southern Colorado. As the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's top agent, Buck Taylor is used to solving tough cases. But when he is tasked with solving two mysterious and high-profile crimes, he knows he's in for his biggest challenge yet. In one small town, recent college graduate Dee Highwater is celebrating her success with her Native American family when she disappears without a trace. In another town, Professor Dale Carmichael and four of his students are embarking on a research expedition in the remote Weminuche ...

Women of Valor The second three of the Alexandra Destephano Psychological Medical thrillers in a digital collection from the Queen of New Orleans Medical thrillersVengeance is the name of the game... Toxic New YearWhat began as rural Virginia’s premier New Year celebration turns into a day of horror when the enemies of Alex Destephano's grandfather, Congressman Adam Patrick Lee, bring the war to his Virginia estate killing, maiming and destroying everything in their path. Evil: Finding St. GermaineMichaela McPherson travels from Richmond with police dog Angel to consult with Commander ...

A deadly secret buried in the jungle. A race against time across continents. A reporter with everything to lose. Investigative journalist Emerson Moore thought he was headed for sun-soaked relaxation on a diving trip to Madagascar. But when he crosses paths with a smooth-talking, down-and-out British reporter, everything changes. Sucked into a shady rescue mission in lawless Somalia with his old friend “Mad Dog” Adams, Moore soon finds himself deep in the heart of the African continent—on a journey far more dangerous than he ever imagined. From skirmishes with Congolese militias to a ...

Some predators wear masks. Some wear power. FBI Special Agent Maggie Lawson doesn’t ask for backup. She doesn’t need permission. But when her case gets shut down and her badge is stripped away, she knows she is getting close. When a young woman is found dead—staged, scrubbed, erased—Maggie senses the work of something organized. The deeper she digs, the tighter the net pulls around her. Her investigation unearths a trafficking network hidden behind corporate shells and government complicity. But inside her own agency, allies are scarce. Colleagues whisper. And Maggie? She feels eyes...

Jabez Van Cleef arrived at Cornell in June of 1966 as a member of an experimental program, funded by the Ford Foundation, which was intended to provide 48 liberal arts students a path to earning PhD's within six years. The first summer the group lived near Clara Dickson hall in a building called Phillips house. Then in the fall they moved into the Cornell Heights Residential Club on the fringe of the campus in Cayuga Heights.In spite of the inherent stress of this collective competitive enterprise, the special students established a kind of enforced mutual solidarity because of their ...

A stunning new crime thriller from the #1 bestselling author Rob Jones with a truly shocking ending. “I was totally taken aback by the ending, completely thrown.” — Suze, Simply Suze Reviews "Wow, what a book. I was hooked from the first page." Emma-Louise Poised to return to work after a long bereavement leave, Detective Chief Inspector Jacob is called away from the sanctuary of his home to attend the grim discovery of human remains over a quarter of a century old. Found deep in woodland with its own grim history, they give little up, but he is soon confronted with local gossip of ...