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275 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Someone's stealing gold shipments in Colorado. John Whyte, ace Pinkerton detective, is tasked to find the culprits and bring them to justice. He is joined by his friends and associates: Khan Singh, his loyal Sikh manservant from his service for the Queen in India, who followed him to America and fought at his side in the Civil War; and Curly Bill Williams, his American friend from Texas. John investigates the string of brutal robberies of gold shipments...
3) Bullet head
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After pulling off the heist of a lifetime, three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse with the law closing in. But, inside the warehouse a more dangerous threat awaits as the fugitives are plunged into a furious battle for their lives.
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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You start off being introduced to two bored lads, who are stuck in the worst jobs they could have imagined, in the heart of industrial Scotland. They decide to supplement their income by highway robbery but don't have the heart, or means, to use violence.
5) Caught
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Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, has escaped his cell and sprinted to the highway. There, he's picked up by his sister's friend and taken to a strip bar, where he survives his first night on the run. Evading the cops isn't his only objective; Slaney also wants to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. As Slaney makes his fugitive journey across Canada, he adopts numerous...
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405 pages ; 24 cm
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"In sparkling Night City, a ragtag group of strangers have just pulled off a heist, robbing a convoy transporting a mysterious container belonging to Militech. The only thing the group has in common is that they were blackmailed into participating in the heist -- and they have no idea just how far their mysterious employer's reach goes, or the purpose of the artifact they stole. This newly formed gang -- composed of a veteran turned renegade, a sleeper...
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting.
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"A naked and bloody seven-year-old girl walks into a bank, clutching a grubby teddy bear. She plays a threatening recording, demanding money. No one dares intervene. The child leaves the bank and disappears, without leaving a trace of evidence. This daring robbery is trusted to highly regarded investigator Leona Lindberg of Stockholm's Violent Crimes Division. But why is Leona ignoring witness statements, and calling in suspects on the barest thread...
10) Thick as thieves
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295 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Carr--ex-CIA--is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning to take tens of millions of dollars belonging to a disgraced financier, Curtis Prager. But Carr's seasoned pros are wound drum-tight--months before, the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup.
11) 68 kill
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Trailer-dwelling, sewage-pumping Chip may not lead the most glamorous life, but he's got one thing going for him: he's head over heels infatuated with his girlfriend Liza. He's more than willing to overlook her wild streak, the fact that she's hooking up with their landlord, and her rather extreme mood swings, so when she proposes a plot to steal $68,000, he goes along with the plan.
12) Once a thief
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326 pages ; 18 cm
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Asked to risk his priceless jewel collection in order to snare a master thief, Max Bannister discovers that his beautiful and savvy exhibit director, Morgan West, has become a pawn in the dark and evil schemes of a dangerous criminal mastermind.
14) Fast and loose
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Men of the Sisterhood volume 4
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English
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"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...
15) Vault
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A gripping, stylish thriller that reveals the true story of one of the largest robberies in US history. While doing time for a botched heist, two small-time crooks cook up an ill-fated scheme to rip off a nearby vault for $30 million, money that belongs to the local Mafia!
16) Bad Santa
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Willie is a thief who teams up with his dwarf friend Marcus, for a very special Christmas scam. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, Marcus tags along as an elf, and they use their employee status to rob stores blind just before Christmas. But Willie is a bitter and foul-mouthed alcoholic who doesn't care much for kids. A mall's manager is certain something's wrong, so he asks the chief of security to check out Willie. Meanwhile, one...
17) High Sierra
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.
18) Ocean's eleven
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The place is Las Vegas. The time: Midnight, New Year's Eve. Danny Ocean (Sinatra) and 10 of his ex-commando buddies get ready to rob the vaults of 5 casinos simultaneously!
19) Delinquent
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The principal is itching to kick Joey out of high school, and Joey cannot wait to get out. All he wants is to work for his father, a tree cutter by day and the leader of a gang of minor thieves by night in rural Connecticut. So when Joey's father asks him to fill in as lookout, Joey is thrilled, until a routine robbery goes very wrong.
20) Seven dead
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233 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies. Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtisman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house's absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than...
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