Kingpin

Author: Lili St Germain
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1460704290
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
They say love conquers all. It's a lie. The compulsive second novel in the USA Today bestselling Cartel trilogy. Five days a week, I dressed in smart business clothes. I painted my face, and went to work as an accountant. But nothing about my life was normal. For eight years I had been the property of the Gypsy Brothers Motorcycle Club. I laundered their money so well they'd never let me leave. My only glimmer of light was the man I loved. The man who had saved me. Dornan. His love had been the only thing that kept the demons at bay. But he'd become so immersed in the cartel's brutal business that I hardly knew him anymore. Dornan had been my salvation, but he was also my undoing. Would he pull me down into the darkness until he destroyed me? Could I save him? Did I even want to? Before the Gypsy Brothers there was the Cartel — from USA Today bestselling author Lili St Germain. Praise for the Cartel trilogy: 'Good lord, this series... this book... these characters.... they are seriously playing all sorts of havoc with my emotions, my feelings, my nerves and my anxiety levels' The Hopeless Romantics Book Blog 'Sensational, shocking, compelling and totally addictive ... the best when it comes to dark, brooding and bloody romance' Kelly, Perusing Princesses

American Kingpin

Author: Nick Bilton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698405730
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers—could buy and sell contraband detection-free. Spurred by a public outcry, the federal government launched an epic two-year manhunt for the site’s elusive proprietor, with no leads, no witnesses, and no clear jurisdiction. All the investigators knew was that whoever was running the site called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts. The Silk Road quickly ballooned into $1.2 billion enterprise, and Ross embraced his new role as kingpin. He enlisted a loyal crew of allies in high and low places, all as addicted to the danger and thrill of running an illegal marketplace as their customers were to the heroin they sold. Through his network he got wind of the target on his back and took drastic steps to protect himself—including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren’t sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global Internet. Drawing on exclusive access to key players and two billion digital words and images Ross left behind, Vanity Fair correspondent and New York Times bestselling author Nick Bilton offers a tale filled with twists and turns, lucky breaks and unbelievable close calls. It’s a story of the boy next door’s ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralized Web advocates and the old world of government control, order, and the rule of law. Filled with unforgettable characters and capped by an astonishing climax, American Kingpin might be dismissed as too outrageous for fiction. But it’s all too real.

Kingpin

Author: Eden O'Neill
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
"I'm going to have fun breaking you, beauty queen."They call him kingpin. A blond titan with the looks of a god, the wealth of a king, and the influence of the mob. Lance Johnson is the guy you go to when you want anything on Woodcreek University's campus.And I mean, anything.He's got more than one dean in his pocket, as well as nearly all the university's staff--the professor I'm a TA for included.He's got grown men and respected scholars by their balls, but he doesn't have me.I have a direct hand over his academic future and not only does he know that, he gets off on it. He tests me in any ways he can. He plays with me and pushes our boundaries to the point of their brink. He doesn't care that I control his grades.And definitely doesn't care that I have a boyfriend.He says I'm nothing but a perfect, little beauty queen. A plaything he can't wait to break. He sets his sight on me and I'm a target of the most powerful man I've ever seen.He has to be if I let him kiss me.Warning: Kingpin is an NA enemies-to-lovers romance that contains dubious content and situations some may find triggering. It's recommended for readers 17+ and is a standalone novel with no cliffhanger. It's book two in a series of standalones titled Court University, which is a spin-off series about characters featured in Eden O'Neill's Court High books. Reading the Court High books first is not necessary for the enjoyment of Court University. The characters origin stories merely begin in Court High and can be referred to at any time if the reader so chooses. Enjoy!

Kingpin

Author: Richard Stratton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628727284
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants. Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part of the hippie mafia, Richard Stratton began a new journey. Kingpin tells the story of the eight years that followed, through two federal trials and the underworld of the federal prison system, at a time when it was undergoing unprecedented expansion due to the War on Drugs. Stratton was shipped by bus from LA's notorious Glass House to jails and prisons across the country, a softening process known as diesel therapy. Resisting pressure to falsely implicate his friend and mentor, Norman Mailer, he was convicted in his second trial under the kingpin statute and sentenced to twenty-five years without the possibility of parole. While doing time in prisons from Manhattan's Criminal Hilton to rural Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and New York, he witnessed brutality as well as camaraderie, rampant trafficking of contraband, and crimes by both guards and convicts. He first learned the lessons of survival. Then he learned to prevail, becoming a jailhouse lawyer and winning the reversal of his kingpin sentence and eventual release. Kingpin includes cameos by Norman Mailer, Muhammad Ali, and John Gotti, and an account of the author's friendship with mafia don Joe Stassi, a legendary hitman from the early days of the mob who knew gangsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Abe Zwillman and has insights into the killing of Dutch Schultz and the Kennedy assassination. Kingpin is the second volume in Richard Stratton's trilogy, Remembrance of the War on Plants.

Carl Weber's Kingpins: the Dirty South

Author: Treasure Hernandez
Publisher: Kingpins
ISBN: 1622869486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This installment in Carl Weber's series, in which the hottest urban fiction authors tell dramatic tales of life in cities across the U.S., focuses on dirty deeds in the American South.

Cartel

Author: Lili St Germain
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1460704282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
The first full length Gypsy Brothers novel from the smash hit author Lili St Germain. Now a USA Today bestseller! How much is a life worth? I grew up in Columbia, the daughter of a wealthy drug lord. I lived a life of extravagance, until one day a drug run went horribly wrong and everything came crashing down around me. I was given away. A payment for a debt. The Gypsy Brothers motorcycle club became my owners, and I did everything I could to survive. But falling in love with the man who owned me wasn't part of the plan ... Praise for the Cartel trilogy: 'Awesome job Lili ... I am ready to hop on the back of a bike and join the club!' LiteraryGossip.com 'I can't believe it took me this long to finally pick up this author ... sign me up for more of the Gypsy Brothers!' Jasmine, GoodReads 'Sensational, shocking, compelling and totally addictive ... the best when it comes to dark, brooding and bloody romance' Kelly, Perusing Princesses

Kingpin

Author: Kevin Poulsen
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0733628389
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
The true story of Max Butler, the master hacker who ran a billion dollar cyber crime network. The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: an audacious crook had staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. The culprit was a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain's double identity. Max 'Vision' Butler was a white-hat hacker and a celebrity throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. But there was another side to Max. As the black-hat 'Iceman', he'd seen the fraudsters around him squabble, their ranks riddled with infiltrators, their methods inefficient, and in their dysfunction was the ultimate challenge: he would stage a coup and steal their ill-gotten gains from right under their noses. Through the story of Max Butler's remarkable rise, KINGPIN lays bare the workings of a silent crime wave affecting millions worldwide. It exposes vast online-fraud supermarkets stocked with credit card numbers, counterfeit cheques, hacked bank accounts and fake passports. Thanks to Kevin Poulsen's remarkable access to both cops and criminals, we step inside the quiet,desperate battle that law enforcement fights against these scammers. And learn that the boy next door may not be all he seems.

Risking It All for a Rich Thug: an Urban Standalone

Author: Lakia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Liam Mills has always been known as the most raw, unfiltered, and sometimes unhinged family member. Although the birth of his son Lennox was not something that was planned, the journey of fatherhood, and the task of running the Mills Mafia without his twin brother, Lance, and his father, Tony, brings out a different side of Liam. The struggles of life, as Danet had grown accustomed to, quickly become a thing of the past after the Mills family welcomes her with open arms after finding out she is continuing the legacy of the Mills Mafia by carrying Liam's first child. The love that forms between Danet and Liam isn't something that either of them expected, but Danet feels immense joy and pleasure standing next to her man and playing her position within the Mills Mafia. Their carefree spirits seem to tighten the bond of their relationship, as they work as a couple to raise a happy and healthy four year old. But will that be enough to sustain a lifelong partnership? Terrance and his long standing beef with his ex-wife's new spouse, who also happens to be his brother in law, has been a point of contention for the entire Mills family. That is until someone new swoops into the picture and steals a piece of his heart. Will Terrance be able to release his past and take the next step with his future? Or will he allow the long standing family feud to win and fumble the heart of his equal? Embark on this final journey with the Mills Mafia and brace yourself for an unpredictable ride. Unexpected love will be discovered. A few unthinkable acts of betrayal will be committed. Multiple people will be left wondering are their actions worth the risk in the final African American hood love story from the Mills Mafia.

Rise Of A Kingpin's Wife 2

Author: Vivian Blue
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648403859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Life with Shade and Kingston is finally coming together. Shade has let her guard down, and decided Kingston is worthy of her loyalty. And, Kingston decides it's time to see if the proof is in the pudding, so he sends Shade out on a mission with Anthony to test her skills. But, the end result opens up a part of Shade’s past she buried while in jail, and conjured up an old mutual friend, that both Kingston and Shade share in common. Now back home in Jamaica, Kingston is faced with his brother Chauncey’s ploys to kill him and their father, in order to gain control of their families Jamaican drug empire with Kingston’s ex-wife Cynthia by his side. Kingston’s hate for her blatant disrespect drives his desire to take his daughters back to America with him. And, when Shade shows up unexpectedly to Jamaica, she is faced with the judgment of Kingston’s mother and his ex-wife. And the lust of Chauncey, the man who wants to destroy her beloved Kingston. But, when an assassination attempt goes wrong, Chauncey sets in motion a kidnapping plan with Jefferson, that could have deadly consequences if Kingston doesn’t play along with the demands.

Dead Fall (The Quantico Files Book #2)

Author: Nancy Mehl
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493433806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
He has a deadly endgame in mind--and he's already chosen each victim . . . including her. After putting to rest the most personal case of her career, Alex Donovan is ready to move on and focus on her future at the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit. When the BAU cofounder is discovered dead in his hotel room, the FBI is called in to work on the strangest case they've ever faced. How do you find a killer who murders his victims from a distance? When it becomes clear that the killer is targeting agents in Alex's unit, they are ordered into lockdown, sheltered in the dorms at Quantico. Alex bunks with controversial agent Kaely Quinn, and as they work together, Alex discovers in Kaely the role model she's never had--despite being warned away. As Alex questions the type of agent she wants to become, things get personal when the brilliant killer strikes close to home. Now Alex will do anything to find the killer--even at the risk of her own life.