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Iced
"You're lucky he didn't have an ice pick in his hands. I know how this guy performs." -Mobster Paul Volpe speaking about a Buffalo-mafia enforcer named "Cicci" Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naïve and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized...
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Daughters, Sons and Shadows
England, 1943…and in war-torn London Elizabeth Creacey and Katherine Swan, two student nurses at Saint Bartholomew's Teaching Hospital are brought together to form a friendship founded on tragedy. A friendship destined to dramatically impact upon the lives of many others throughout the next fifty years. Romance catapults Elizabeth into sexual awakening and into the world of a mysterious British army officer with a French accent and a mission. Elizabeth's wartime diaries surface in 1992, into the hands of the man who has slept with his brother's wife. In the midst of a 90's commercial power-struggle, this potentially destructive knowledge falls into the wrong hands and the emotional time-bomb explodes...
History of Structuralism: The rising sign, 1945-1966
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The Spice Trader's Daughter
In 1685, sixteen-year-old Jean-Claude Dubois and his younger brothers escape from the violent terror against the Huguenots in France, sailing to his uncle, a spice trader in Prussia. On the voyage, Jean-Claude falls in love with Marie and they eventually marry and have a daughter, Katy. At thirteen, fluent in French, Katy is sent away to be the companion of spoiled, aristocratic Charlotte, daughter of the margrave of Königsberg to teach her French for her marriage into French nobility. A frightened Katy must accompany her to France, where she meets the blacksmith’s apprentice, Gilles. Their love appears doomed, when the family takes her to Versailles for the wedding. There, Katy meets her...
The Banker
Kirby Wallace is a top investigator for the U. S. Treasury Department and survives assassination attempts and a kidnapping while investigating money laundering by global banks that cleanse billions of dollars for drug cartels, terrorists, organized crime, oligarchs and blacklisted countries. Wallace goes undercover in New York and joins France’s largest bank that is money laundering funds for blacklisted countries, including Iran, Sudan and Cuba. He assembles proof of the crimes, which leads to the largest fine, $8.9 billion, ever recorded against a global bank. The investigator’s undercover work keeps him constantly on the move, which ruptures love affairs and makes it virtually impossible for him to win the woman he loves. Between assassination attempts and an attempted kidnapping, Kirby is just trying to survive….
MURDER ON THE BLUE SWAN
A Kate Cavanaugh and Renato Lopez adventure: While in France, Kate and Renato partner with Lieutenant George Velay to solve the murder of a young woman found hanging from the upper deck of a luxury yacht in the Old Port of Marseille. Reader review: "Another page-turner in the Kate Cavanaugh series."
The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime
You may never again think of Canadians as law-abiding Respected crime reporters Peter Edwards and Michel Auger have pooled their research and expertise to create The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime. Sometimes grim, sometimes amusing, and always entertaining, this book is filled with 300 entries and more than 150 illustrations, covering centuries of organized crime. From pirates such as “Black Bart,” who sheltered in isolated Newfoundland coves to strike at the shipping lanes between Europe and the North American colonies, all the way to the most recent influx of Russian mobsters, who arrived after the end of the Cold War in 1989 and are now honing their sophisticated technologic...
