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    The Dark Flood (eBook, ePUB)
    'The undisputed champion of South African crime' - Wilbur SmithOne last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn.One last chance. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but its economy has been ruined by one man. Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market, just when estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call. From Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now.For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher. For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble.Taut with intrigue, murder and suspense, exploding with action and excitement, The Dark Flood is a masterpiece from the author of Trackers and The Last Hunt.'One of the best crime writers on the planet' - Daily Mail
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    Bernie Madoff: A Biography , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 16min
    Bernie Madoff is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. Madoff founded the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in 1960, and was its chairman until his arrest on December 11, 2008. The firm was one of the top market-maker businesses on Wall Street, which bypassed "specialist" firms by directly executing orders over the counter from retail brokers. He employed at the firm his brother Peter as Senior Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer; Peter's daughter, Shana Madoff, as the firm's rules and compliance officer and attorney; and his sons Andrew and Mark. Peter has since been sentenced to 10 years in prison and Mark committed suicide by hanging exactly two years after his father's arrest. Andrew died of lymphoma on September 3, 2014. On December 10, 2008, Madoff's sons told authorities that their father had confessed to them that the asset management unit of his firm was a massive Ponzi scheme, and quoted him as describing it as "one big lie." The following day, FBI agents arrested Madoff and charged him with one count of securities fraud. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had previously conducted multiple investigations into Madoff's business practices, but had not uncovered the massive fraud. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Libatique. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/062634/bk_acx0_062634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flat Earth News , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1064min
    When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance. Working with a network of off-the-record sources, Davies uncovered the story of the prestigious "Sunday" newspaper which allowed the CIA and MI6 to plant fiction in its columns; the newsroom which routinely rejects stories about black people; the respected paper that hired a professional fraudster to set up a front company to entrap senior political figures; the newspapers which support law and order while paying cash bribes to bent detectives. Davies names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda. He shows the effect of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat - from the millennium bug to the WMD in Iraq - tainting government policy, perverting popular belief. With the help of researchers from Cardiff University, who ran a ground-breaking analysis of our daily news, Davies found most reporters, most of the time, are not allowed to dig up stories or check their facts - a profession corrupted at the core. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steven Crossley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/000424/bk_howe_000424_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Dark Flood
    'The undisputed champion of South African crime' - Wilbur Smith One last chance. Almost fired for insubordination, detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido find themselves demoted, exiled from the elite Hawks unit and dispatched to the leafy streets of Stellenbosch. Working a missing persons report on student Callie de Bruin is not the level of work they are used to, but it's all they get. And soon, it takes a dangerous, deeply disturbing turn. One last chance. Stellenbosch is beautiful, but its economy has been ruined by one man. Jasper Boonstra and his gigantic corporate fraud have crashed the local property market, just when estate agent Sandra Steenberg desperately needs a big sale. Bringing up twins and supporting her academic husband, she is facing disaster. Then she gets a call. From Jasper Boonstra, fraudster, sexual predator and owner of a superb property worth millions, even now. For Sandra, the stakes are high and about to get way higher. For Benny Griessel, clinging to sobriety and the relationship that saved his life, the truth about Callie can only lead to more trouble. Taut with intrigue, murder and suspense, exploding with action and excitement, The Dark Flood is a masterpiece from the author of Trackers and The Last Hunt. 'One of the best crime writers on the planet' - Daily Mail
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    Gun Smuggler's Tale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    The tell-all tale of Clark Schroeder: fraudster, hacker, and smuggler. Clark gets the idea for his own gun store during a pheasant hunt when a fellow hunter brags about his gun being a knockoff manufactured by his brother-in-law. Dollar signs float in Clark's head as he realizes that he can make the knockoffs look real by hacking the ATF gun registry and putting in a record for the fake serial numbers. Then Clark gets an amphibious plane to fly the guns out of Mexico and unload them at the lake near Manhattan, KS where he can easily set up shop.From there, wacky things begin to happen in Clark's store. He is inspected by the KBI the first day he is open and one of the guns doesn't come up as a registered serial number. An employee steals from Clark and then tries to rob the store, twice. This attracts law enforcement to Clark's store. Even worse is that the ATF and FAA stick their nose in Clark's business. Can Clark even stay open a year before landing himself in jail?As the pressure gets to him, Clark is visited by some crazy individuals. He must keep his own sanity during some trying times. It is a good thing he has a budding romance that becomes a source of comfort and strength, but nightmares start coming. As Clark's freedom is jeopardized, his struggle within his own conscience comes to a head. What started as a quest for financial freedom turns into a quest for freedom from himself. Can Clark make it? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: DW Draffin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099563/bk_acx0_099563_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Woodcutter, Hörbuch, Digital, 363min
    A fast-moving, stunning new standalone psychological thriller – from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. Wolf Hadda's life has been a fairy tale. From humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter's son, he has risen to be a hugely successful entrepreneur, knighted for services to commerce, happily married to the girl of his dreams. Then early one morning, there comes a loud knocking at his door and the fairy tale ends. Within months he is universally reviled as a convicted fraudster and paedophile, abandoned by his friends, divorced by his wife, cut off from his daughter, and his company Woodcutter Enterprises has collapsed. All his protestations of innocence can do is guarantee he will serve the whole of his lengthy sentence. Then, after seven years, prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes a breakthrough. Wolf begins to talk. And soon, under her guidance, he is released on parole, and returns to his rundown family house in rural Cumbria, apparently seeking nothing more than a quiet life in complete seclusion. But there is a part of Wolf's background that only a very few know anything about, a few early unaccounted for years when he disappeared from home and was known to those who employed him as the Woodcutter. And the Woodcutter is looking for the truth, and with the truth, revenge. Alva Ozigbo is also still seeking for the truth. Innocent or guilty, he is clearly damaged goods, and the more convinced Alva becomes of his innocence, the greater her concern that he may be about to do something that will put him back inside forever…. Language: English. Narrator: Jot Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/000601/bk_hcuk_000601_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mystery Woman: Ladies of Lantern Street, Book 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 327min
    The new Ladies of Lantern Street novel from Amanda Quick explores the crimes, passions, and paranormal secrets of Victorian London. Under the plain gray skirts of Miss Beatrice Lockwood’s gown, a pistol waits at the ready. For Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission - and with a secret past - and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown oddly off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy ball - and then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. His name is Joshua Gage, and he claims to know Beatrice’s employers. Beyond that, he is an enigma with a hypnotically calm voice and an ebony-and-steel cane.... Joshua, who carries out clandestine investigations for the Crown, is equally intrigued. He has a personal interest in Miss Lockwood, a suspected thief and murderer, not to mention a fraudster who claims to have psychical powers. The quest to discover her whereabouts has pulled him away from his mournful impulses to hurl himself into the sea - and engaged his curiosity about the real Beatrice Lockwood, whose spirit, he suspects, is not as delicate as her face and figure. He does know one thing, though: This flame-haired beauty was present the night Roland Fleming died at the Academy of the Occult. Guilty or not, she is his guide to a trail of blood and blackmail, mesmerism and madness - a path that will lead both of them into the clutches of a killer who calls himself the Bone Man.... Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004925/bk_brll_004925_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mystery Woman: Ladies of Lantern Street Series, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 521min
    The new Ladies of Lantern Street novel from Amanda Quick explores the crimes, passions, and paranormal secrets of Victorian London. Under the plain gray skirts of Miss Beatrice Lockwood’s gown, a pistol waits at the ready. For Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission - and with a secret past - and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown oddly off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy ball - and then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. His name is Joshua Gage, and he claims to know Beatrice’s employers. Beyond that, he is an enigma with a hypnotically calm voice and an ebony-and-steel cane.... Joshua, who carries out clandestine investigations for the Crown, is equally intrigued. He has a personal interest in Miss Lockwood, a suspected thief and murderer, not to mention a fraudster who claims to have psychical powers. The quest to discover her whereabouts has pulled him away from his mournful impulses to hurl himself into the sea - and engaged his curiosity about the real Beatrice Lockwood, whose spirit, he suspects, is not as delicate as her face and figure. He does know one thing, though: This flame-haired beauty was present the night Roland Fleming died at the Academy of the Occult. Guilty or not, she is his guide to a trail of blood and blackmail, mesmerism and madness - a path that will lead both of them into the clutches of a killer who calls himself the Bone Man.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Justine Eyre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004872/bk_brll_004872_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Old Fires Ignite (Aileen and Callan Murder Mysteries, #5) (eBook, ePUB)
    The dead man on her doorstep: a premonition or an angel? A car burns just around the bend from Dachaigh. Is it a plot to destroy the inn or exterminate every trace of the body within? For Detective Inspector Callan Cameron, it's a brilliant example of a murder with the victim as hidden in the shadows as the suspects. Amateur sleuth Aileen Mackinnon vows to crack this case. Was the man a fraudster or a damaged soul looking for salvation? Smoke and mirrors lead them down a path to jail, fraud and fatal car crashes. Is this the end of Aileen and Callan or a promise of something new? If books by Jullian Scott, Paul Austin Ardoin, Agatha Christie, JD Robb, DK Hood and Fiona Grace keep you up all night, When Old Fires Ignite is the perfect puzzling mystery for you! What readers are saying about other books in this series: "I most definitely recommend this book (and the previous 3) to any reader that appreciates a well written mystery!"-Veronique Raby on When Red Mist Rises, Goodreads Reviewer "If you're looking for a good mystery, set your magnifying glass on When Eyes Don't Lie!"-Joshua Grant on When Eyes Don't Lie, Diabolic Shrimp and Bestselling Author "Gosh, what a well written and entertaining book! The plot moves smoothly and keeps the reader engaged throughout. The characters are portrayed in such an engaging manner. I thoroughly enjoyed this mystery. Recommended."-MaryB on When Birds Fall Silent, Bookbub Reviewer Best enjoyed in order:1. When Murder Comes Home2. When Eyes Don't Lie3. When Birds Fall Silent4. When Red Mist Rises5. When Old Fires Ignite6. When Distilled From Rage
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    Pandemic, Inc. (eBook, ePUB)
    For readers of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand. The United States federal government has spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes. Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and revelatory, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.
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