Summary: Nicknamed "The Eagle" for his unerring intuition, detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson exudes competence and self-assurance but beneath the facade is a tormented personality. A cunning and ingenious hero, Hallgrim has allowed work to consume his life and prevent his connecting with himself, his darkest memories and his motivations. Ultimately, a personal crisis forces him to launch another, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EAGSummary: As international terrorism and organized crime become more and more intertwined, western nations find themselves increasingly threatened by violence and lawlessness on an unimaginable scale, In Denmark, a special unit fights cross-border crime throughout Scandinavia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EAGBaldacci, David
Summary: Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BALDe Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting and enduring of human passions. In the world Ricciardi and Maione are about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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Summary: While Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison visit Alex's sister in Baronville, Pennsylvania, Amos discovers two dead men in a nearby house, but finds the police and unseen forces are stonewalling the investigation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Baldacci 2018De Giovanni, Maurizio
Summary: They've made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. They fired every member of the investigative branch after they were found guilty of corruption. Now, there's a group of detectives, a new commissario, and a new superintendent. The new cops immediately find themselves investigating a high-profile murder that has the whole town on edge. Heading the investigation is Inspector...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEGBaldacci, David
Summary: Amos Decker and his journalist friend Alex Jamison are visiting the home of Alex's sister in Barronville, a small town in western Pennsylvania that has been hit hard economically. When Decker is out on the rear deck of the house talking with Alex's niece, a precocious eight-year-old, he notices flickering lights and then a spark of flame in the window of the house across the way. When he goes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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Summary: "A ... personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich"--Dust jacket flap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 SANSummary: In this edition of Frontline, investigative correspondent Lowell Bergman examines the shadowy world of international bribery, revealing how multinational companies create slush funds, set up front companies, and make secret payments, all to get billions in business. But these practices are facing an international crackdown led by prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice and its allies...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: "Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: "A propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, taking once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence and holding them up to the light Black markets have always thrived in the shadows of society. Increasingly, these enterprises-drug dealing, money laundering, human trafficking, terrorist funding-have found their shadows online. Digital crime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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Summary: "From the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new global economy and its trajectory There have been many books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8. The Shifts and the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the most persuasive and complete account yet...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 WOLParadis, Michel
Summary: A narrative account of the Doolittle Raids of World War II traces the daring Raiders attack on mainland Japan, the fate of the crews who survived the mission, and the international war crimes trials that defined Japanese-American relations and changed legal history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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Summary: Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Kosovo refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2017
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Summary: Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 330.9 LEWLewis, Michael (Michael M.)
Summary: Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 LEWFlint, Shamini
Summary: Inspector Singh is in Cambodia - wishing he wasn't. He's been sent as an observer to the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, the latest effort by his superiors to ensure that he is anywhere except in Singapore.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Piatkus 2011