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1) Free fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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In a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Justine, a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord, arrange a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris and shifty South African gun runner Vernon. What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it's every man (and woman) for themselves.
2) Raylan
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, and Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns...
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Series
Market of monsters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place.
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Series
Market of monsters volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With her best friend, Kovit's, life in danger, Nita is determined to take down the black market once and for all.
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
With her self-healing ability widely known, Nita's only chance for survival is to become too feared to be targeted again, starting with killing her betrayer, Fabricio.
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Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all?marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Stricken with a rare illness, Indian woman of privilege Kimaya grows up isolated in an ivory tower, until she builds a relationship with window washer Rahul Savant, whom she inspires to join the police force; but when Rahul uncovers a gang-run organ ring at the same time Kimaya gets a chance at a life-changing heart transplant, their world gets turned upside down.
10) Relics
Author
Series
Relics (Tim Lebbon) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Beneath the surface of our world, mythological creatures still exist-people pay fortunes for a sliver of dragon bone, an angel's wing. Angela Gough is a criminology student whose fiancé, Vince, disappears. Her investigation leads her into a black market of arcane relics. Angela and her team must stop this horrific trade, yet they face a growing menace as the creatures begin to fight back.
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Language
English
Description
"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 47
Language
English
Description
"Iconic, tough-but-tender Boston PI Spenser delves into the black market art scene to investigate a decades-long unsolved crime of dangerous proportions. The heist was legendary, still talked about twenty years after the priceless paintings disappeared from one of Boston's premier art museums. Most thought the art was lost forever, buried deep, sold off overseas, or, worse, destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the most valuable...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun - Lady vengeance, JSA, Save the green planet) turns to the black market to sell his own organs, only to end up cheated of his life savings. His girlfriend (Bae Doo-na - The host, Barking dogs never bite, Linda Linda Linda) urges Ryu to kidnap the daughter of wealthy industrialist Dong-jin (Song Kang-ho - Lady vengeance, The host, JSA, The foul king), who recently...
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English
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Angela Gough has been pulled into this world, making her a criminal on the run. In London she encountered the Kin--satyrs and centaurs, Nephilim and wraiths, they are hunted and slaughtered for their body parts. Fleeing back to the United States, Angela discovers that the Kin are everywhere, and they are tired of being prey. When her niece Sammi is struck by lightning, she is drawn toward the mysterious Folded Land, and its powerful and deadly ruler....
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Language
English
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"The Organ Broker is the story of Jack Trayner, an underground black market organ dealer who lives in New York. Over the years, Jack's conscience begins to overcome his resolve for this illicit business. His desire for redemption is fueled by his new-found relationships with a woman named Michelle and a young man named Mark. The Organ Broker represents Jack's confession and attempt at redemption as he tries to save one last innocent patient, and potential...
17) Antiviral
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a man who sells viruses both legally and over the black market injects himself with one that kills a celebrity, he tries to discover a way to get rid of the virus before it also kills him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teenage Hanneke--a 'finder' of black market goods--is tasked with finding a Jewish girl a customer had been hiding, who has seemingly vanished into thin air, and is pulled into a web of resistance activities and secrets as she attempts to solve the mystery and save the missing girl"--
19) Unwitting deceit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tone and Omar, business associates in the world of black market diamond sales, quickly become enemies after a deceitful act. They are forced to set aside their differences to accomplish one common goal, get out of a critical situation and not to serve time. In the process, something is uncovered way deeper than what meets the eye.
20) The nine
Author
Series
Thieves of fate volume 01
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A book that some would kill for -- Black market courier Rowena Downshire is doing everything she can to stay off the streets and earn enough to pay her mother's way to freedom. But an urgent and unexpected delivery leads her face to face with a creature out of nightmares. The Alchemist knows things few men have lived to tell about, but when a frightened and empty-handed courier shows up on his doorstep he knows better than to turn her away. What...
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