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    Red Card , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 692min
    The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal - the biggest international corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by US investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World Cup. The FIFA case began small, boosted by an IRS agent’s review of an American soccer official’s tax returns. But that humble investigation eventually led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of the soccer’s world governing body in Switzerland. In Red Card, Ken Bensinger explores the case, and the personalities behind it, in vivid detail. There’s Chuck Blazer, a high-living soccer dad who ascended to the highest ranks of the sport while creaming millions from its coffers; Jack Warner, a Trinidadian soccer official whose lust for power was matched only by his boundless greed; and the sport’s most powerful man, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who held on to his position at any cost even as soccer rotted from the inside out. Remarkably, this corruption existed for decades before American law enforcement officials began to secretly dig, finally revealing that nearly every aspect of the planet’s favorite sport was corrupted by bribes, kickbacks, fraud, and money laundering. Not even the World Cup, the most-watched sporting event in history, was safe from the thick web of corruption, as powerful FIFA officials extracted their bribes at every turn. Arriving just in time for the 2018 World Cup, Red Card goes beyond the headlines to bring the real story to light, accompanying the determined American prosecutors and special agents who uncovered what proved to be not only the biggest scandal in sports history but one of the biggest international corruption cases ever. And it is far from over. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008757/bk_sans_008757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Restart: Dark Paladin Series, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 797min
    The Game is in turmoil. All the players' strength and resources are invested in preparing for Restart: only 20 percent of the players will make it to the next era. Murders are becoming commonplace; bribes and nepotism are at their height. Betrayal is becoming an inherent part of everyday interactions.  The Game has spread its perfidious influence to the farthest corners of the Universe, affecting every sentient being. Will the Dark Judge reach the right verdict? Will he follow the ideals of his class to the end or will he reject them, becoming an ordinary player? Yaropolk must make a fateful choice: he is the Guide. The one who will launch the Restart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Kraft. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/011159/bk_tant_011159_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The King’s Gambit , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
    Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder - the glory that was Rome. In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes listeners back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy. But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, highborn commander of the local vigiles, was determined to investigate. Despite official apathy, brazen bribes, and sinister threats, Decius uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government that threatens to destroy him and the government he serves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009710/bk_blak_009710_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Color of Justice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 692min
    1964: Justice, Mississippi, is a town divided. When attorney Coop Lindsay agrees to defend a Black man accused of murdering a White teenager, the bribes and death threats don't intimidate him. As he prepares for the case of a lifetime, the young lawyer knows that innocent or guilty, he will no longer welcome in Justice. 2014: To some, the result of the trial still feels like a fresh wound even 50 years later, when Coop's grandson arrives in Justice seeking answers to the questions unresolved by the trial that changed his family's legacy. When a new case is presented, again pitting White against Black, this third generation Lindsay may have the opportunity he needs to right the wrongs of the past.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charlie Thurston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/001651/bk_drms_001651_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Framed (Jax Diamond Mysteries, #2) (eBook, ePUB)
    It's a deadly game of who's who, and who isn't. Things get pretty sticky for PI Jax Diamond and his courageous canine partner, Ace, when their best friend, a cop, is framed for murder. And not just anyone's murder. The victim is the fiancée of the most notorious gangster in the city, Orin Marino, Jax's deadliest enemy. Laura Graystone, the budding Broadway Star and Jax's new squeeze, proves to be an ingenious partner as they sift through clues trying to find the real murderer. But when Jax is pinched for another crime, Laura and Ace are forced to go undercover. Hang on to your seat as Jax, Laura and Ace take you on another crazy, whodunit ride during the Roaring Twenties. Where no one is who they seem, and those who do, aren't. Anything goes during an era of fun and frolic, song and dance, speakeasies, gangsters, bootlegging and bribes.
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    The Mordida Man , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 505min
    American agents abduct a high-profile terrorist in broad daylight on the streets of London, subduing him with a tranquilizer. He dies a few hours later on a flight back to Washington, DC, and the body is dropped into the ocean. Hours later, the President's brother - a political powerhouse in his own right - boards a plane to Las Vegas that doesn't land in Nevada. Libyan radicals are at the controls, and he is their prisoner. The only man who can save him is Chubb Dunjee. A former United Nations operative with skills in every aspect of political negotiation, Chubb became famous for solving problems with well-placed bribes. Saving the President's brother should be no trouble for him. But the Libyans don't want a bribe. They want blood. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R.C. Bray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000846/bk_high_000846_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Lawfully Promised: The Lawkeepers, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 140min
    Promises kept and promises broken.When Ella Jamison’s father gets in trouble with the law, he offers up his only daughter to get the Texas ranger on his trail to look the other way. Fear over what might become of her father if arrested obligates Ella to go along with his plan.Isaiah Hayes doesn’t accept bribes, but his concern for Miss Jamison, should he leave her to Mr. Jamison’s abuse, compels Isaiah to accept the offer. While investigating the Christmas Eve hangings and Christmas Day massacre, Isaiah tries to make Ella comfortable in his meager dwelling. Ella battles her fears as she tries to adjust to a new home with a man she fears, almost as much as the father who gave her away. Promises are made to broken, aren’t they? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jami McClure. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179371/bk_acx0_179371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Secret Lives of the Supreme Court: What Your Teachers Never Told you About America's Legendary Justices , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 480min
    You’ll discover that: Hugo Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Benjamin Cardozo likely died a virgin. John Rutledge attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge. John Marshall Harlan organized regular screenings of X-rated films. Thurgood Marshall never missed an episode of Days of Our Lives. Sandra Day O’Connor established the court’s first Jazzercise class. And much, much more! With chapters on everyone from John Jay to Samuel Alito, Secret Lives of the Supreme Court tackles all the tough questions that other history books are afraid to ask: How many of these judges took bribes? How many were gay? And how could so many sink into dementia while serving on the highest court in the land? American history was never this much fun in school! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory St. John. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015280/bk_adbl_015280_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Brownie Points for Murder: A Jill Andrews Cozy Mystery, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 389min
    Brownies, bribes, and a body on the beach....Suburban mom Jill Andrews has two young kids and a husband who travels more than he's home. Her biggest worry is the decision to re-enter the workforce, until she trips over the body of her neighbor, Samuel Westen, who'd been feuding with Jill's sister-in-law Desi.When the stress of being the police's top suspect lands Desi in the hospital with pregnancy complications, Jill must navigate her own mom-life crisis, sift through a tangled web of secrets and lies, and discover the identity of the real killer before it's too late.Jill Andrews Cozy MysteriesBrownie Points for Murder - Book 1 Death to the Highest Bidder - Book 2 A Deadly Pair O'Docks - Book 3 Stuck With S'more Death - Book 4Murderous Mummy Wars - Book 5 ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Liz Krane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/152271/bk_acx0_152271_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Plain Murder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min
    At the Universal Advertising Agency in London a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set and vicious Mr. Morris, soon discovers that killing is far easier than he thought - and that he even has a talent for it. He might, he feels, be superhuman. But as he will discover, there is no such thing as the perfect crime, and no deed goes unpunished. Taking us into a 1920s London of grimy back streets, smoky cafés and shabby rooms, Plain Murder, C. S. Forester's second crime novel, is a brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal of the dark heart of a killer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ric Jerrom. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006801/bk_bbcw_006801_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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