Search:

Results 151 to 160 of 268 | « previous |

Dark wire : the incredible true story of the largest sting operation ever / by Cox, Joseph(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Beginning in 2018, a powerful app for secure communications, called Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary safeguards to keep out prying eyes -- the power to quickly wipe data, voice-masking technology, and more. It was better than other apps popular among organized crime syndicates, except for one thing: it was secretly run by law enforcement. Over the next few years, the FBI, along with law enforcement partners in Australia and parts of Europe, got a front row seat to the global criminal underworld. They watched drug deals and hits being planned in real time, making arrests where they could without blowing their cover. For a period of years, some one hundred thousand criminals worldwide, including members of South American drug cartels, the Calabrian mafia, and the Chinese Triad, did their business in full view of the officers they were trying to evade. It was a sprawling global economy as efficient and interconnected as the legal one. But a surveillance operation like this couldn't last. It was too dangerous, too ethically fraught, too large. And it all ended in spectacular fashion. Dark Wire is more than the story of this enormous sting operation -- it shows the fundamental problems of policing in such a vast and high-speed economy. This is a caper for our modern world, where everyone is connected and no one is completely free"--
Subjects: Electronic surveillance; Organized crime investigation.; Text messaging (Cell phone systems); Undercover operations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Midnight alias / by Kennedy, Elle.;
Subjects: Romantic suspense fiction.; Government investigators; Undercover operations; Soldiers of fortune; Organized crime;
© c2013., Signet Eclipse,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

American made [videorecording] / by Cruise, Tom,1962-actor.; Gleeson, Domhnall,1983-actor.; Jones, Caleb Landry,actor.; Kirke, Lola,actor.; Liman, Doug,film director.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Spinelli, Gary,screenwriter.; Wright, Sarah,1983-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones, Lola Kirke.In this '80s-set thriller based on a true story, airline pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) is recruited by the CIA to smuggle drugs and weapons abroad for the U.S. government. Seal quickly amasses a fortune via his undercover operations, but he gets in over his head when he becomes involved with Colombia's Medellín cartel and the Iran-contra scandal.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Seal, Barry, 1939-1986; Medellín Cartel; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Drug traffic; Illegal arms transfers; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Organized crime;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

American made [videorecording (BLURARY)] / by Cruise, Tom,1962-actor.; Gleeson, Domhnall,1983-actor.; Jones, Caleb Landry,actor.; Kirke, Lola,actor.; Liman, Doug,film director.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Spinelli, Gary,screenwriter.; Wright, Sarah,1983-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones, Lola Kirke.In this '80s-set thriller based on a true story, airline pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) is recruited by the CIA to smuggle drugs and weapons abroad for the U.S. government. Seal quickly amasses a fortune via his undercover operations, but he gets in over his head when he becomes involved with Colombia's Medellín cartel and the Iran-contra scandal.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Seal, Barry, 1939-1986; Medellín Cartel; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Drug traffic; Illegal arms transfers; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Organized crime;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

American made [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Cruise, Tom,1962-actor.; Gleeson, Domhnall,1983-actor.; Jones, Caleb Landry,actor.; Kirke, Lola,actor.; Liman, Doug,film director.; Plemons, Jesse,1988-actor.; Spinelli, Gary,screenwriter.; Wright, Sarah,1983-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones, Lola Kirke.In this '80s-set thriller based on a true story, airline pilot Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) is recruited by the CIA to smuggle drugs and weapons abroad for the U.S. government. Seal quickly amasses a fortune via his undercover operations, but he gets in over his head when he becomes involved with Colombia's Medellín cartel and the Iran-contra scandal.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-X Immersive Audio 7.1, DTS Digital surround 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Biographical films.; Seal, Barry, 1939-1986; Medellín Cartel; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Drug traffic; Illegal arms transfers; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Organized crime;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Armored / by Greaney, Mark,author.;
"A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent--a professional bodyguard--and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high--the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in Virginia. For a man like Josh, this is purgatory on earth, but miracles can occur even in the suburbs. A lucky run-in reunites Josh with an old comrade who offers the desperate man a shot at a lucrative job. The UN is sending a peace mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico--an area so dangerous it's known as Espinazo del Diablo--the Devil's Spine. Just two problems: Only a fool would think they could broker peace between the homicidal drug cartels in the region, and only a madman would sign on to keep those fools alive"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Novels.; Bodyguards; Bodyguards; Cartels; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; Drug dealers; Organized crime; People with disabilities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

Armored [text (large print)] / by Greaney, Mark,author.;
"A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent--a professional bodyguard--and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high--the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury. So, Josh has to support his family working as a mall cop in Virginia. For a man like Josh, this is purgatory on earth, but miracles can occur even in the suburbs. A lucky run-in reunites Josh with an old comrade who offers the desperate man a shot at a lucrative job. The UN is sending a peace mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico--an area so dangerous it's known as Espinazo del Diablo--the Devil's Spine. Just two problems: Only a fool would think they could broker peace between the homicidal drug cartels in the region, and only a madman would sign on to keep those fools alive"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large type books.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Bodyguards; Bodyguards; Cartels; Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes; Drug dealers; Organized crime; People with disabilities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The godmothers : a novel / by Aubray, Camille,author.;
Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Italian American families; Organized crime; Women; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The big empty / by Crais, Robert,author.;
"Elvis Cole is hired to help a young woman track down her father who went missing ten years ago. She is convinced he didn't abandon her and her mother, but prior investigations have turned up ... empty. When the case takes a dark, unexpected turn, Elvis enlists Joe Pike's help and the two of them chase down the horrifying truth. Sometimes not knowing is better ... "--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Cole, Elvis (Fictitious character); Pike, Joe (Fictitious character); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Gangsters; Missing persons; Organized crime; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
unAPI

The beekeeper : rescuing the stolen women of Iraq / by Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā,1965-author,translator.; Weiss, Max,1977-translator.; translation of:Mīkhāʼīl, Dunyā,1965-Fi Suq Al-sabaya by Almutawassit.English.;
"Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women--who've lost their families and loved ones, who've been repeatedly sold, raped, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons--and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a beekeeper, who uses his knowledge of the local terrain, along with a wide network of transporters, helpers, and former cigarette smugglers, to bring these women, one by one, through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, back into safety. In the face of inhuman suffering, this powerful work of nonfiction offers a counterpoint to Daesh's genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk their lives to save those of others"--
Subjects: Biographies.; IS (Organization); Women; Yezidis;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 151 to 160 of 268 | « previous |