"Hollywood Nate" Weiss might have finally found his big break when he meets B-list director Rudy Ressler and his wealthy widow girlfriend, Leona Brueger. The couple is planning an extended trip to Tuscany and is worried about the security of their Hollywood Hills mansion, since there's been a rash of burglaries committed by the "Bling Ring." Nate agrees to keep an eye on their home and Rudy agrees to help Nate get a movie role. Rudy and Leona are also "fortunate" to have found a live-in butler who will care for Leona's invalid brother-in-law. The butler, Raleigh L. Dibble, is a petty criminal who has vowed to go legit, but he can't resist art dealer
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The Camel Club's unofficial leader, Oliver Stone is about to begin a secret mission against Russian and Mexican drug cartels for the President when he witnesses a bombing in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Since the British Prime Minister is attending a state dinner at the White House and was scheduled to walk across the park, it is assumed that he was the intended victim. Stone, a former member of the CIA and one of its mostly highly skilled assassins finds his orders changed. He is now tasked with finding out who planted the bomb and why. British Intelligence assigns MI6 agent Mary Chapman to work with Stone to discover the truth about the bombing. Working with
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It's not every day that the police ask a private investigator to prove them wrong, but that's essentially what Detective Martin Quirk does when he asks Spencer to look into the death of a young girl found in a movie star's hotel room. Jumbo Nelson, the larger than life movie star, appears to be a slam dunk for the rape and murder of a young girl found in his hotel room, but Quirk doesn't believe that he's guilty, so he calls on Spenser. When Spenser enters the scene and overpowers Nelson's bodyguard, a Cree Indian named Zebulon Sixkill, Nelson fires the bodyguard and Spenser finds himself
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In this sequel to Shanghai Girls, Joy, the girl who was born to one sister but raised as the daughter of the other, flees from both mothers when she learns of the bizarre relationship at age nineteen. Since she was born in the United States to Chinese parents, she is an American citizen, but her adoptive mother Pearl raised her to understand and embrace Chinese culture and customs. Joy's rapture with all things Chinese extends to Mau's teachings, and when she feels betrayed by
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This is not an ordinary love story. It is action-filled right from the beginning when a female state trooper gets home and finds herself in a deadly confrontation. The love story of this book is in the true love that State Trooper Tessa Leoni has for her missing 6 year old as she vows to find her daughter no matter what it takes, even murder. The reader is given hints about Tessa's actual situation in the prologue, but it isn't until halfway through the book that it becomes clear whether she is the victim or
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It's hard to imagine that the world might never have known Frank Sinatra nor been seduced, charmed and entertained by his beautiful music if it hadn't been for the pity and compassion of an Italian woman in 1915. When the midwives could not help Dolly deliver her only child, they called a doctor who used forceps to rip the inert child from her womb. The baby's ear torn and bleeding, he was cast aside
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"911. What's your emergency?" If it were only possible to solve life's problems with a simple phone call, Pete Webster and his daughter Rowan might have avoided 15 years of hurt and loss. Pete Webster was just finishing his EMT training in a small town in Vermont when he was called to the scene of an accident that changed his life forever. At 21 one years old, his life was normal and predictable. He planned to be an EMT, meet a nice girl, marry and
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