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From Mike Magnuson's Author's Note:The Right Man for the Job was originally published in 1997, and it's based upon my actual experiences working from the fall of 1991 through the winter of 1993 as an account manager and repo man for a rent-to-own company in the poor black neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio. I worked some other jobs in Columbus during that stretch – temp-service general labor in warehouses and factories and construction sites and even...
2) Ranchero
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Nick Reid novels volume 1
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Attacked by a belligerent man who steals an important car and flees with a television that was being repossessed, Nick Reid and his best friend, Desmond, pursue the man and find themselves on the trail of a notorious meth producer.
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Ex-DEA Agent Jack Merchant is living out his precarious retirement on the docks of Charlestown, Mass., surrounded by the revenge-minded dealers and punks he used to put away. All he's got is his sloop, LILA, but soon enough he gets a visit from the repo man. Except the repo man's a woman, Sarah Ballard. Her proposition: they've got a week to track down a rich couple who've disappeared with their yacht. Find it, and Merchant can keep his boat. The...
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Finder chronicles volume 3
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"Fergus is back on Earth at last, trying to figure out how to live a normal life. However, it seems the universe has other plans for him. When his cousin sends him off to help out a friend, Fergus accidently stumbles across a piece of an ancient alien artifact that some very powerful people seem to think means the entire solar system is in danger. And since he's the one who found it, they're certain it's also his problem to deal with. With the help...
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Finder chronicles volume 2
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"The Shipmakers have convinced Fergus to finally deal with unfinished business he's been avoiding for half his life: Earth. [He] hasn't been back to his homeworld since he was fifteen, when he stole his cousin's motorcycle and ran away. It was his first theft, and nothing he's stolen since has been anywhere near so easy, or weighed so heavily on his conscience. Many years and many jobs later, Fergus reluctantly agrees that now is the time to return...
6) Riptide
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"Two surprises await high-stakes repo man Jake Jacobson on his latest job. First, old flame Kelsey Chambers. Second, gunfire! Seizing the luxury yacht should have been easy, but he hadn't planned on Kelsey's appearance. Or that smugglers would hijack the vessel to find an antique map hidden on board. The map is Jake and Kelsey's only leverage...but it carries a price. Without it, they're as good as dead. With it, they're the target of a relentless...
7) Repo madness
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Juggling the possible loss of his job, a romantic estrangement, and court-ordered medication, Michigan repo man Ruddy McCann learns that the tragedy that defined his life may be a lie, a possibility that compels his investigation into a string of local disappearances.
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Ruddy McCann novels volume 1
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"Ruddy McCann, former college football star, has experienced a seismic drop in popularity; he is now Kalkaska, Michigan's full-time repo man and part-time bar bouncer. His best friend is his low-energy Basset hound Jake, with whom he shares a simple life of stealing cars. Simple, that is, until Ruddy starts hearing a voice in his head. The voice introduces himself as Alan Lottner, a dead realtor. Ruddy isn't sure if Alan is real, or if he's losing...
9) Iced
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2001.
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In Missoula, Montana, ex-con Meg Gardner tries to lay low and stay clean, but when she repossesses the Jeep of a dead man who had been searching for a missing military plane he flew forty years earlier--and Russian thugs break into the Jeep while in her possession--Meg finds it difficult to steer clear of danger.
11) Chimpanzee
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2014.
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Unemployment has ravaged the U.S. economy. People struggle everywhere, exhausted by the collapse that destroyed their lives. Benjamin Cade is an expert in cognition, and before the flatlined economy caught up to him, he earned his living as a university instructor. Now, without income, he joins the millions defaulting on their loans – in his case, the money he borrowed to finance his degrees. But there are consequences. Using advances in cognitive...
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