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Literary World; Choice Readings from the Best New Books, with Critical Reviews
The Smuggler's Daughter
Author: Addison D Taylor
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2023-10-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"I'd think someone with your history knows how to take care of herself." "So, you know about that?" "Everyone who's been a cop for more than five years knows about your father. He was the talk of the town right until the day he died... and his little partner of course. Why do you think I targeted you?" Lisbet Sobek has spent her whole life trying to break free from the life she was born into. When a stroke of bad luck gets her arrested for prostitution, she's looking at years in prison. Backed against a wall, she takes the one deal that can get her out of it. Inform on the criminals who hire her. She'd never thought she'd become a snitch, but she had her own neck to watch. "Make him notice you. Draw him in. You need to give him a reason to keep you around. Shouldn't be too hard. He likes them young." Until her works puts her in the path of someone she hadn't anticipated. Alexei Marchenko wasn't like her other clients... and he was going to complicate things.
The Thief's Daughter
Author: Victoria Cornwall
Publisher: Choc Lit Limited
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1781893187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A woman driven to crime finds love with a man of the law in this tale of eighteenth-century Cornwall, “full of twists and turns” (Buried Under Romance). England, 1779. Though many citizens of Cornwall have resorted to smuggling as their only means of survival, Jenna Cartwright has determined to always abide the law. But when her brother is sent to debtor’s prison, Jenna must do whatever it takes to free him. Housekeeping by day for one Jack Penhale, she joins a gang of violent brigands each night on Cornwall’s rocky coast. A professional thief-taker, Jack knows to keep his business private, even from his charming new housekeeper. He has come to Cornwall to find the criminals who killed his father, but his mind keeps returning to Jenna’s innocent, bewitching smile. As their lives become entangled, and the worlds of justice and crime collide, the love-struck pair must decide where their allegiances lie. This “striking” tale of passion and survival brings to life an unforgettable time and place in history (Historical Novel Society).
The Art of Smuggling
Author: Francis Morland
Publisher:
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781908479853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Francis Morland was one of Britain's most brilliant young artists, a leading member of the 1960s 'New Generation' movement beside such future giants as David Hockney. At the same time he lived a remarkable secret life: as the first major drug trafficker in UK history. He stuffed his sculptures full of Lebanese cannabis to ship to the US, sailed hashish from Morocco to Europe and, years before Howard Marks, became the most important dope runner in the country. But the drug squad found him, arresting him in 1971, 1980, 1990 and 2000. Now 81, he teaches ceramic classes.
Smugglers Notch
Author: Joseph Koenig
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-06-19
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1453259643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thriller centering around a brutal murder in snowbound Vermont “is his best yet. A gripping story, told with skill and style” (Tony Hillerman). Becky should know better than to hitchhike, but there’s no other way to get home. She’s waiting by the highway when a skinny Vermont hick named Paul Conklin offers her a ride. He’s absent-minded and a little bit awkward, but comes off as harmless—until it’s too late. They’re deep in the woods when he rapes her, too far from town for anyone to hear her scream as he wraps his belt around her throat and slowly snuffs out her life. But he has made a mistake. Becky’s father is friends with the attorney general, and the law will come down hard on Paul Conklin. In rural Vermont, law takes the form of men like Lawrence St. Germain, a hulking man accustomed to rough winters and grisly crime. He will sacrifice everything to avenge Becky’s death, battling not just her killer, but the justice system itself.
Bible John's Secret Daughter
Author: David Leslie
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-04-29
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1780571208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There was one partner the pretty young women who danced away the 1960s in Glasgow's Barrowlands were desperate to avoid: Bible John, so named because he quoted scripture to his victims. He was being hunted for three brutal unsolved sex murders, and each of his victims had been picked up after a night at the famous dance hall. Police were still investigating the first terrifying murder when Hannah Martin was raped on her way home from the Barrowlands. When Bible John struck twice more, Hannah confided to friends that his description matched that of her own attacker. The next shock came when Hannah discovered she was pregnant. Her distraught father banished her from the family home and forced her to give her child up for adoption. She would never see her daughter again, but in a bizarre twist three decades later, an investigation into the infamous World's End murder would result in Hannah's daughter discovering the identity of the mother she never knew. Tragically, the news came too late for them to be reunited, but it set her on a course to uncover the shocking secrets of her mother's life. Did Hannah know Bible John? What did Hannah Martin reveal of her baby's father? How did she then become a member of a multimillion-pound drug-smuggling gang? Why, after expecting a huge bounty, did she die in poverty? The answers are all here in Bible John's Secret Daughter.
The Cocaine Diaries
Author: Jeff Farrell
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-06-07
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1780574231
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’ Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas. There he was plunged into a nightmarish world of coke-fuelled killings, gun battles, stabbings, extortion and forced hunger strikes until finally, just over two years into his sentence, he gained early parole and embarked on a daring escape from South America . . . Aided by his extensive prison diaries, Keany reveals the true horror of life inside Los Teques: a shocking underworld behind bars where inmates pay protection money to stay alive, prostitutes do the rounds and vast amounts of cocaine are smuggled in for cell-block bosses to sell on to prisoners for huge profits. The Cocaine Diaries is a remarkable story, told by Keany with honesty, courage and even humour, despite knowing that every day behind bars might have been his last.
