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An assessment of the role of smuggling in establishing American foreign relations traces the activities of illicit importer Charles L. Lawrence against the backdrop of the Civil War, changing views on patriotism, and Congressional tariffs on foreign luxuries.
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Essex has always been particularly suited to smuggling. It has over ninety miles of coastline bordering the North Sea, and an even greater length of navigable rivers, tidal creeks and backwaters. The county's maritime trade has been based predominantly in its three major ports-Colchester, Maldon and Harwich-with Manningtree, Mistley, Brightlingsea, Burnham and Leigh-on-Sea operating as 'sub ports' in a more minor role. During the period from 1700...
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'Operation Clinker' was the operational name given to this true account told from the perspective of the principal undercover agent, an inspector in Royal Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau, in what transpired to be a record attempt to export heroin from Hong Kong to Australia in 1988.
The author was recruited to form part of the crew for a voyage from Hong Kong to Australia. Covert surveillance observed the loading of a heavy bag aboard and the yacht...
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xiii, 365 pages ; 25 cm
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"In March of 2017, a team of FBI agents arrested Juan Granda, Samer Barrage, and Renato Rodriguez, or as they called themselves, "the three amigos." The trio -- first identified publicly by the authors of this book -- had built a $3.6 billion dollar business in metals trading, mostly illegal Peruvian gold. Their arrests and subsequent prosecution laid bare more than a corrupt finance firm, though. Instead, Dirty Gold lifts the veil on an illegal international...
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Hollywood influencer and super-secret spy Poppy Fields is finally taking a well-deserved vacation with her partner Thor.
A woman. A man. A private Greek island. What could go wrong?
When a storm washes six teenage girls onto the island, trouble comes knocking. The men who trafficked the girls will do anything to get them them back, including killing Poppy and Thor.
With communications to the mainland down and no help in sight, can Poppy save the...
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Why would anyone steal art? Who can you sell it to?
The High Chancellor puts Rivka on the trail of serial art thieves. Dismantle the ring. Recover the art. Put the thieves behind bars, thieves who stay one step ahead.
Insiders? Or maybe outsiders with inside knowledge? No suspects. No clues. Rivka has to use all the resources at her command-her gift, her people, her ship, and tools that no one else has access to. Rivka has to chase the criminals...
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Excerpt: "At a time when the drug-evil, as it is called, is attracting so much attention all over the world, it does not seem out of place to tell the public something about how conditions in regard to it obtain in India and Burma. As far as I have been able to ascertain there is no literature on this subject outside "blue books," and those admirable compilations are notoriously dry reading. A novel called "Dope" by Sax Rohmer professes to deal with...
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"Cormorant Crag: A Tale of the Smuggling Days" by George Manville Fenn. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices....
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South-east England, 1740s: war and heated politics bring the old practice of smuggling to new and dangerous heights. Violent gangs of smugglers terrorise communities and confound government attempts to stop them. The most famous of these, the Hawkhurst Gang, operate like a modern drug cartel fuelled by illegal tea. They threaten witnesses and authorities, brandish weapons in public, and fight battles in the streets, murdering and kidnapping those...
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Think you're a smuggler? With that box of Cuban cigars or those unclaimed duty-free souvenirs from last summer's trip to Paris? Untaxed and untraced commerce--call it contraband--is a trillion-dollar-per-year global business. New technologies to discover and curb smuggling are met by equally well-equipped perpetrators, determined to stay below the radar. With its long coastline, hundreds of remote landing strips and airports clogged with sun-seeking...
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In this tale of piracy, sex, and people-smuggling in Australian waters, two men down on their luck decide to begin a life of crime by smuggling people and drugs from Asia to Australia. One of the men is ex-navy, while the other was dismissed from Customs for security breaches. They decide to use their combined knowledge to steal a yacht in Queensland and use it to transport their illegal cargodrugs, people, or both. Along the way they meet and recruit...
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This fascinating book contains a detailed account of the seafaring lifestyle intrinsic to Cornish culture, covering a wide range of topics from smuggling and wrecking to fishing and general boating. A delightful book sure to appeal to anyone with a keen interest in Cornish culture, Cornish Seafarers is a must-have addition to collections of antiquarian nautical literature and well deserves a place atop any bookshelf. Alfred Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin...
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Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets offers a gripping and eye-opening exploration of the clandestine and dangerous realm of animal trafficking and the insatiable demand for exotic pets. Peter Laufer delves deep into the underbelly of this illicit trade, unveiling the harrowing stories of both the creatures that suffer and the individuals driven by obsession and greed. With a combination of investigative journalism...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 32
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179 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Nancy Drew comes to the aid of the owners of a local dancing school when they receive an anonymous note threatening their lives.
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Lisa Lindquist Dorr tells the story of the vast smuggling network that brought high-end distilled spirits and, eventually, other cargoes (including undocumented immigrants) from Great Britain and Europe through Cuba to the United States between 1920 and the end of Prohibition. Because of their proximity to liquor-exporting islands, the numerous beaches along the southern coast presented ideal landing points for smugglers and distribution points for...
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As it prepared to ward off an invasion by five well-equipped neighboring armies in 1948, newborn Israel lacked the weapons to defend itself. Enter Al Schwimmer, an American World War II veteran who feared a repeat of the Holocaust. He created factitious airlines, bought decommissioned airplanes from the US War Asset Administration, fixed them in California and New Jersey, and sent his pilots-Jewish and non-Jewish WWII aviators-to pick up rifles, bullets,...
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On the night of June 1, 1743, terror struck the schooner Rising Sun. After completing a routine smuggling voyage where the crew sold enslaved Africans in exchange for chocolate, sugar, and coffee in the Dutch colony of Suriname, the ship traveled eastward along the South American coast. Believing there was an opportunity to steal the lucrative cargo and make a new life for themselves, three sailors snuck below deck, murdered four people, and seized...
20) Artemis: a novel
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Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.
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