Money War

Nicht erst seit der Corona-Krise bezahlen immer mehr Menschen bargeldlos mit Karte oder App. Corona hat die Entwicklung deutlich beschleunigt. Nutznießer sind vor allem die großen IT-Unternehmen wie Amazon und Google und die Großen der Finanzindustrie, die unter dem Banner des Fortschritts schon seit Längerem die bargeldlose Gesellschaft propagieren.

When a billion dollar diamond deal cut by one of New York's heaviest crime families goes sour, and the consignment of rare gems is lost overseas, a crew of wise guys straight out of Brooklyn is ordered to get it back -- any way they can. This is an international caper novel to end all caper novels, a nonstop page-turner jam-packed with action from start to finish and one of Alexander's boldest books ever. This edition has been newly reformatted for the Kindle reader.

Black Market Billions blows the lid off the world's fastest-growing illicit industry: organized retail crime. Hitha Prabhakar reveals how criminals with ties to terrorist groups around the world are committing huge product thefts, and using the profits to fund terrorist acts. Prabhakar connects the dots and follows the money - from consumers dying for a deal to terrorist cells eager to do the killing.

In an era of flappers, gunsels, dames, and rumrunners, Bobby Maguire was southern Florida’s most notorious bootlegger. Young, handsome, and daring to the point of recklessness, Bobby made millions sneaking his liquor-laden quick boats past a gauntlet of armed and vigilant patrol boats of the United State’s Coast Guard. In the roaring twenties Florida, fueled by a land boom was the fastest-growing state in the nation and Maguire was determined to feed its thirst for booze, dames, and high times. Drawn by Maguire’s flamboyance and dashing good looks women adored him. But Bobby’s ...