Dangerous Heist
Dangerous Heist

Author: Kandy Moon

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-19

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9781728888132

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Fifty Cars, Three Days, Three People I like fast, expensive cars. I like to drive them. I enjoy excitement to a point. I didn't like the idea of stealing vehicles out of car shops and bringing them to the bad guys. As it turns out, stealing cars, is a big rush for me. It turns me on! Korbin's younger brother, Jimmy, has always been a troublemaker. Now Jimmy's in a jam and they're out to kill him. Jimmy comes to Corbin and Karen asking for help in saving his life. He had agreed to do a job to heist fifty specific cars. He didn't think the men would mind if he kept a couple of the cars for himself but they did. "We have five minutes to get in, shut the alarm off, grab the keys and get out with the cars", Jimmy said. Karen: I was almost to the shipyard when a cop pulled out of an alley and got right on my tail. The flashing lights came on. I was sure I was going to jail. As Korbin was driving towards the shipyard in an eight million dollar Mercedes-Benz Maybach Exelero, he noticed someone following him. All of a sudden he heard a bullet hit the back window and the race was on! It's hard to keep up with all of the action and thrills in this non-stop, suspense-filled car heist adventure. Oh, and there's a bit of high speed love too.

Countdown to Danger: Deadly Heist
Countdown to Danger: Deadly Heist

Author: Jack Heath

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1443163082

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30 dangerous paths. 30 minutes to escape. YOU choose the path to survive! You are hanging out with your friend Kyle who makes a quick stop at the bank . . . only to find yourselves plunged into the middle of a high-stakes heist. But is it money that the robbers — Miss Scarlet, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Signet and Silver Tooth — are after? Or is there a larger, more sinister plot behind their takeover of the bank? And what do nanotechnology and a silver ninja have to do with anything? The latest installment of this choose-your-own-adventure series cranks up the adrenaline as you make split-second decisions and try to save the world! Choose wrong and risk being nibbled by nanobots, chopped by a helicopter or stomped by an artificial rhino. Or do you swing to freedom Tarzan-style, escape through a festering sewer, or partner with a clone of yourself and live to choose another day? YOU DECIDE!

Countdown to Danger #3 Deadly Heist
Countdown to Danger #3 Deadly Heist

Author: Jack Heath

Publisher: Scholastic Australia

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1743837488

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You are standing inside a busy city bank, wary of three suspicious people you just saw come in. Suddenly an EAR-SPLITTING SCREAM makes you jump. The alarm starts ringing. One of the suspicious trio, a man, has pulled a grenade out of his bag. The woman has just melted the security camera with her laser shooter. Do you get down on the floor like they tell you? Or try to escape when they turn their backs? 30 minutes. 30 paths. You choose if you live or die.

Countdown to Danger: Deadly Heist
Countdown to Danger: Deadly Heist

Author: Jack Heath

Publisher: Scholastic Canada

Published: 2017-06-27

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1443163074

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30 dangerous paths. 30 minutes to escape. YOU choose the path to survive! You are hanging out with your friend Kyle who makes a quick stop at the bank . . .only to find yourselves plunged into the middle of a high-stakes heist. But is it money that the robbers -- Miss Scarlet, Mr. Sharp, Mr. Signet and Silver Tooth -- are after? Or is there a larger, more sinister plot behind their takeover of the bank? And what do nanotechnology and a silver ninja have to do with anything? The latest installment of this choose-your-own-adventure series cranks up the adrenaline as you make split-second decisions and try to save the world! Choose wrong and risk being nibbled by nanobots, chopped by a helicopter or stomped by an artificial rhino. Or do you swing to freedom Tarzan-style, escape through a festering sewer, or partner with a clone of yourself and live to choose another day? YOU DECIDE!

The Feather Thief
The Feather Thief

Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1101981628

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As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins—some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.

Tokyo Heist
Tokyo Heist

Author: Diana Renn

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-06-13

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0142426547

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The perfect mystery for fans of Ally Carter's Heist Society When sixteen-year-old Violet agrees to spend the summer with her father, an up-and-coming artist in Seattle, she has no idea what she's walking into. Her father's newest clients, the Yamada family, are the victims of a high-profile art robbery: van Gogh sketches have been stolen from their home, and, until they can produce the corresponding painting, everyone's lives are in danger--including Violet's and her father's. Violet's search for the missing van Gogh takes her from the Seattle Art Museum, to the yakuza-infested streets of Tokyo, to a secluded inn in Kyoto. As the mystery thickens, Violet's not sure whom she can trust. But she knows one thing: she has to solve the mystery--before it's too late.

Deadly Heist
Deadly Heist

Author: Jack Heath

Publisher:

Published: 2017-02

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781760276829

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You are standing inside a busy city bank, wary of three suspicious people you just saw come in. Suddenly an EAR-SPLITTING SCREAM makes you jump. The alarm starts ringing. One of the suspicious trio, a man, has pulled a grenade out of his bag. The woman has just melted the security camera with her laser shooter. Do you get down on the floor like they tell you? Or try to escape when they turn their backs? 30 minutes. 30 paths. You choose if you live or die.

The Last Good Heist
The Last Good Heist

Author: Wayne Worcester

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1493023306

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On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with duffle bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight. It's one thing for authorities to admit they didn't find a trace of goods worth from $3 million to $4 million, and entirely another when what was at stake was more accurately valued at about $30 million, the equivalent of $120 million today. It was the biggest single payday in the criminal history of the Northeast. Nobody came close, not the infamous James "Whitey" Bulger, not John "The Dapper Don" Gotti, not even the Brinks or Wells Fargo robbers. The heist was bold enough and big enough to rock the underworld to its core, and it left La Cosa Nostra in the region awash in turmoil that still reverberates nearly 38 years later. "The Last Good Heist" is the inside story of the robbery and its aftermath.

Hadvarian Heist
Hadvarian Heist

Author: Beth Ball

Publisher: Grove Guardian Press

Published: 2020-12-08

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1952609062

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The lives of your friends are bound to your own — can you do what it takes to free them and ensure the survival of your world? A dark shadow looms over Caldara as Iellieth Amastacia and her companions travel north. Hidden within the elegant marble halls of the Hadvarian Court, an ancient artifact waits to be discovered, but haunting spectres of the past guard the prize. Deep in the Shadowlands, Lucien plots to capture Iellieth and extinguish any resistance to Alessandra before the flame spreads. Across Azuria, foul forces await his bidding, ready to deliver the druid into his hands. Unfortunately for Lucien’s pack of werewolves, Briseras Ravisthinia delights in making them her prey. With the help of an over-eager folklorist and a driven, if mysterious, witch, Briseras intends to destroy not only the werewolves, but also the more sinister creature who lurks just beyond her grasp. On the opposite side of the world, Genevieve Vendanges stalks after the man who bears her conclave’s sacred dagger. Aboard the Amber Queen, she has a chance to uncover what he knows about the destruction of her conclave and all she held dear. But the passenger holds secrets for other crew members as well, namely the ship’s captain, Teodric Adhemar. What guarded information from Teodric’s past might emerge to interrupt his return to the powerful Admiral Syleste? Even further west, foreboding visions drive Persephonie Arelle to the ancient walls of Andel-ce Hevra. To protect her mother, she must confront hostile guards hunting practitioners of natural magic and subvert the dangerous machinations of Aylin, her mother’s partner. But Persephonie does not fight alone. A mischievous fox and handsome captain of the guard stand ready to help her combat the clashing urban forces. Will it be enough? In book two of the Age of Azuria high fantasy series, Iellieth, Briseras, Teodric, Genevieve, and Persephonie must summon the strength to withstand the pull of the darkness surrounding them, a tide whose time, whose destruction, has finally come.

Heist Society
Heist Society

Author: Ally Carter

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1423139380

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Kat Bishop can steal anything-including your heart. Intrigue, adventure, romance, and charm abound in this New York Times bestselling series. For as long as she can remember, Katarina has been a part of the family business-thieving. When Kat tries to leave "the life" for a normal life, her old friend Hale conspires to bring her back into the fold. Why? A mobster's art collection has been stolen and Kat's father is the only suspect. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat's dad needs her help. The only solution is to find the paintings and steal them back. Kat's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's history-and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way. With its glamorous international settings, intriguing suspense, complicated cons and even more complicated romance, Heist Society is stealing the hearts of Ally Carter fans everywhere.