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When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very different. One is a podiatrist, happy with his quiet life. The other is a CIA operative, who lives life on the edge, and when circumstances gets out-of-hand, involves the other in an arms-smuggling sting.

Tricked by a wealthy landowner into shooting an innocent man, constable Bob Valdez is determined to make the landowner pay the dead man's wife for his wrongful death.

A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far right. So delicate is the operation that even the Ministers personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared...

From the author of One for the Money comes the second clever comic mystery featuring irrepressible bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Here, Stephanie finds herself on the trail of a killer who happens to have a distant relative who's a vice cop with questionable ethics, a libido in permanent overdrive, and a habit of horning in on Stephanie's investigations. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum debuted in Janet Evanovich's award-winning One for the Money. Here,...

Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gunrunning operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.

Nam̕ reports that legitimate global trade has doubled since 1990 from $5 to $10 trillion. Meanwhile, money laundering has gone up tenfold, exceeding $1 trillion a year. Smuggling and money laundering have always existed, but Nam̕ shows how they have increased at a staggering pace in the wake of globalization, despite new government controls since 9/11.

"The Mossad has uncovered Iran's plans to smuggle untraceable weapons of mass destruction into Israel. The clock is ticking, and agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux can't act quickly enough. Nir and Nicole find themselves caught in a whirlwind plot of assassinations, espionage, and undercover recon, fighting against the clock to stop this threat against the Middle East. As they draw closer to danger -- and closer to each other -- they find themselves...

Two special agents for the Southwest Sate Company are sent to Timoratio, New Mexico, on the south desert to watch for Mexican border-jumpers. What they find are both Mexicans and Americans smuggling guns below the border to supply a rebel Mexican army.