James O. Born, Author . Putnam $23.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-399-15169-9
Putting 17 years of service with various law enforcement agencies to excellent use, Born delivers a riveting, serpentine tale of crooked cops, police politics and a $1.5-million bag of money juggled from one pair of dishonest hands to another....
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James O. Born, Author . Putnam $24.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-399-15263-4
An eccentric cast and a credible plot lift Born's second Florida-set crime novel (after 2004's Walking Money
). Bill Tasker, agent in Florida's Department of Law Enforcement, is recovering from his divorce as well as from nearly being...
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James O. Born, Author . Putnam $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-399-15334-1
In Born's occasionally flat but mostly rewarding third crime thriller to feature Bill Tasker, the dogged, genial Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent looks into the murder of Rick Dewalt, a privileged inmate at the Manatee Correctional...
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James O. Born, Author . Putnam $25.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-399-15398-3
Born's fourth thriller introduces a new hero, but an implausible premise, stock characters and some clichéd prose may disappoint fans of his earlier novels (Escape Clause
, etc.), which featured Florida lawman Bill Tasker. ATF agent Alex...
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James O. Born, Author Putnam $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15454-6
ATF agent Alex Duarte, who debuted in Born’s Field of Fire
(2007), remains a man of action but, alas, little else, in his second outing, an otherwise snappy, well-plotted crime drama set in Panama and New Orleans. Duarte and several other...
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James O. Born. Forge, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7847-7
Dog-lovers will welcome Born's intriguing crime novel, which introduces Palm Beach County, Fla., sheriff's deputy Tim Hallett and his K-9 companion, Rocky. Hallett was a detective until his illegal handling of a criminal suspect, Arnold Ludner, got...
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Lou Dobbs and James O. Born. Forge, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7652-7
In the uneven second collaboration between TV pundit Dobbs and former DEA agent Born (after 2014’s Border War), Vladimir Putin orchestrates an alliance with Islamic State jihadists, whose barbarous acts of terror will serve as a distraction for a...
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