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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland--the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former assassin Evan Smoak is using his deadly skills to assist Max Merriweather, a guy down on his luck, whose cousin's murder has brought him to the attention of an Armenian street gang involved in a money-laundering scheme. It seems like an easy enough task for the Nowhere Man, but as soon as he eliminates one threat, a more powerful one appears, and getting to the top of the pyramid requires courage, wit, creativity, and a lot of specialty weapons....
4) Azul cobalto
Author
Publisher
Océano Exprés
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Defeated in their endeavors to create a financial network for global criminals and by the murder of their godfather, El Paisano and Lizzy Zubiaga return to crime world, now to sell pieces of art. The discovery of Siqueiros easels lost for almost eighty years is the beginning of a fruitful business for the former cartel leader, Constance. Everything is hunky-dory until his archenemy, Detective Andrea Mijangos, appears and is ready to destroy the business"...
5) Reamde
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed-in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz. As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite, Lewis sets out to answer...
12) Red team blues
Author
Publisher
A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
13) Innocent as sin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despairing of finding the mysterious figure responsible for the murder of his identical twin, Rand McCree assists a rich socialite with an art exhibition that has inadvertently entangled her in a money laundering operation.
14) Bound
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A mobster, his mistress, and her lover--a tough female ex-con--are caught in a dangerous plot with over $2 million of the mob's money at stake.
15) Ozark: Season 3
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss"--Container
16) Ozark: Season 2
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss"--Container
17) Ozark: Season 4
Publisher
Netflix
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A financial planner couple launder money and pay off debts for a Mexican drug lord under the guise of opening a resort.--Adapted from case.
18) Ozark: Season 1
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A Chicago financial advisor, who has been quietly laundering money for a drug kingpin, must quickly uproot his family and move the operation to The Ozarks, after his partner is caught cheating the business."--Back of container
19) Night whispers
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Florida policewoman assists the FBI in their investigation of her father's murder.
20) The kill room
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A dark comedic thriller follows an art dealer who teams with a hitman and his boss for a money laundering scheme that accidentally turns the hitman into an overnight Avant-Garde sensation, forcing the dealer to play the art world against the underworld.
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