Fiction
A crime classic about gunrunner Eddie Coyle and his dangerous relations with bank robber Jimmy Scalisi, a cop named Foley, and Dillon, a bartending hitman.
Driver, a man who
makes a living doing stunt driving for films during the day and by
driving for criminals at night, finds himself caught in the middle when
he is double-crossed by some former partners and is forced to take
violent means to protect himself and to seek revenge on his betrayers.
Lured back to her
former profession of robbing casino gamblers of their winnings, Cassie
Black suddenly finds herself caught up in a dark conspiracy, pursued by
mysterious gunmen who are closing in on Cassie's deepest secret, one
that she will do anything to protect.
After surviving an
act of violence as a child, Michael stops talking and grows up with the
ability to open any lock or safe, a talent he sells to any buyer in the
crime world, until a botched heist forces him to go home to face the
secret that has kept him so quiet.
A casino robbery gone wrong compels its orchestrator to call in a favor
from a master criminal known only as "Jack," who must test the limits of
his considerable skills in order to protect his anonymity from a
closely pursuing FBI.
Offered a chance to participate in a deadly heist that could make him
rich beyond his wildest dreams, criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker recruits a
team of talented associates to organize a plot that is threatened by
their mutual enmity.
Nonfiction
Documents the unsolved theft of the lost Gardner masterpieces, tracing
the research of the late art detective Harold Smith while recounting the
author's own forays into the art underworld of looters, mobsters, and
investigators.
Documents the astonishing 2009 theft of an invaluable collection of
ornithological displays from the British Museum of Natural History by a
talented American musician, tracing the author's years-long
investigation to track down the culprit and understand his motives,
which were possibly linked to an obsession with the Victorian art of
salmon fly-tying.
An award-winning CNN investigative journalist team presents a
full-length account exposing the activities of a French psychic at the
center of a decades-long, multimillion-dollar international con
targeting the elderly and other vulnerable individuals.
The culprit and larger-than-life personality behind jewel heists that remained unsolved for years shares her story, describing how a young black woman from West Virginia pulled off diamond robberies and used nuns to break out of prison.
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