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Badge of honor volume 7
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In Philadelphia, detective Matt Payne goes to war against terrorists, his mission complicated by crooked policemen. The novel is part of the Badge of Honor series, devoted to police officers.
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Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...
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A Philadelphia narcotics cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner's wife and partner are gunned down during an attempted robbery. And in a beautiful mansion, a young woman dies of a drug overdose. At first the crimes seem unconnected. But these four deaths are about to trigger a massive convergence of corrupti
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"The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin. In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old...
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Badge of honor volume 8
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"Detective Matt Payne of the Philadelphia police department--newly promoted to sergeant and assigned to Homicide--finds himself in the middle of three major assignments."--from book jacket.
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Train is an 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname "the Mile Away Man." Packard's easy manner hides a proclivity for violence, and he remains an enigma to Train even months later when they are winning high stakes matches...
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Nothing will ever be the same again . . .
In the heart of Philadelphia’s badlands, Homicide Detectives Byrne and Balzano are called out to a particularly chilling crime scene. Once the pillar of the neighbourhood, an abandoned church has become a killing room. At first it looks like a random act of violence. But then a second body is found, and a third. Each crime scene more disturbing than the last, each murder more brutal.
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There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims are all lowlifes. However, when vigilante groups spring up claiming credit for some of the murders, Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne hopes it isn't true. As the targets get bigger and events start moving out of control, Payne realizes that if he and his colleagues can't figure out who's behind this very soon, the violence could overtake them all.
10) Broken trust
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Badge of honor volume 13
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"The dramatic New York Times-bestselling adventure in W.E.B Griffin's Badge of Honor series about the Philadephia police force. Having investigated his share of gruesome murders, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him - until the case of a young socialite's death lands on his desk. The Camilla Rose Morgan he'd known as a teenager was beautiful and brilliant - how was it possible she'd jumped to her death...
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Badge of honor volume 2
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Police work made more difficult by a hostile press when kidnapping spree terrifies city.
13) Drift
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When Philly narcotics detective Doyle Carrick receives a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior, he's ordered to lay low at the unfamiliar house hes inherited in rural Pennsylvania following his parents' recent deaths. Feeling restless and out of place, Doyle is surprised to find himself falling for his new neighbor, Nola Watkins, who's under pressure to sell her organic farm to a large and mysterious development company. He's even more...
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Awakening in the night covered in her murdered husband's blood with no knowledge of what happened, defense lawyer Andrea Wilson flees the police and turns for help to detective Mike Coletti, a man from her past who she entreats to help prove her innocence.
15) The doll maker
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"Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings....
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"Powerful drama…a tough but moving piece of crime writing." - Philadelphia Daily News
"Terrific...well plotted...spearkles with crisp, believable dialogue...an excellent crime novel…don't miss this one!" - Booklist (starred review)
"Scott Flander writes such a convincing cop tale…that it's hard to believe he wasn't on the force." - Washington Times
"Flander is very good at describing the gritty life and conversation of Philadelphia street...
18) Four to midnight
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Sometimes the hardest thing for a cop to do is the right thing.
A black city councilman is badly beaten on a West Philadelphia street and blames two of Sgt. Eddie North's best cops. They deny it. Eddie, uncertain of what really happened, decides to back his men-and finds himself accused of a conspiracy to cover up the truth.
The media, the politicians and the public are outraged. And then a man in a black ski mask begins a campaign to assassinate...
19) Cold blooded
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"Fourteen years ago, high school track star Sydney Adams was gunned down in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The investigation yielded useless clues, and the case went cold. But homicide detective Augustus Knox never gave up on finding Sydney's killer. Now, retired from the police force and with only months to live, he enlists the help of private investigator Jocelyn Rush to clear the case once and for all. Armed with little more than a theory as to...
20) Shutter man
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A member of Philadelphias dangerous Farren crime family--Billy, a killer plagued with a rare disease that prevents him from recognizing faces--targets Detective Kevin Byrne whose investigation into home-invasion cases and a past crime brings him too close to his employer.
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