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Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tradition of Greg Iles and Dennis Lehane comes a powerful new voice in American fiction. Locke's debut thriller involves murder, greed, and redemption, set in the oil boomtown of 1980s Houston.
6) Fuzzy nation
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jack Holloway, prospecting on Zara XXIII for ZaraCorp, finds an immensely valuable stream of sunstone. But when he forwards footage of the planet's catlike, native "fuzzies" to a biologist friend --who believes the "fuzzies" are sentient--hired company thugs, murder, and arson soon follow to protect ZaraCorp's mining interests.
Author
Series
Jay Porter novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Locke reintroduces us to environmental lawyer Jay Porter (her Black Water Rising protagonist), who takes one last case on the behalf of the community of Pleasantville in this new thriller--only to become embroiled in its shadowy politics, a disturbing education in how far those in power are willing to go to win"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Facebook, Oxfam, Volkswagen, FIFA, Wells Fargo, Lehman Bros., ABN-AMRO, South-west Airlines, Shell, Rabobank, Deutsche Bank, Panama Papers... Why do good companies go bad? Why do corporate scandals happen so often? Is corruption and misconduct in business inevitable? And, on a more pragmatic level, what can business leaders do about it? What can they do to save their companies when scandal strikes, or what can they do to avoid scandal in the first...
14) Guru
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Hindi
Description
A villager, Gurukant Desai, son of a village schoolteacher, comes to Bombay in 1958 and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in Indian history.
15) The final twist
Author
Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: locating a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths. Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw plays cat and mouse with the company's sadistic enforcers. Only by finding the courier bag can he expose the company and stop the...
16) Luna: wolf moon
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed.
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