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Calm horse, wild night

1982
A fourteen-year-old places himself in a very compromising situation in order to prevent his huge, gentle timber horse from becoming part of a smuggling scheme.

Illicit trafficking

a reference handbook
2005

Shell games

rogues, smugglers, and the hunt for nature's bounty
2010
Blends crime drama and natural history to tell the story of a larger-than-life man who stole millions of dollars in marine creatures and led wildlife police on a two-year odyssey to catch him.

Double trouble

1982
When the Bobbsey twins try to help a famous pianist who is on tour in America from his native country and who has been receiving threats against himself, the man's daughter is kidnapped.

Moonfleet

2011
While looking for a legendary treasure supposedly hidden near his village, John Trenchard uncovers a secret smuggling operation and is taken under the wing of the innkeeper and head smuggler. Soon, John is part of a life-changing adventure that will help him unearth long-buried secrets.

Dog soldiers

a novel
1997
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam WAr, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action--and profit--by getting involved in a big-time drug deal.

The whisperers

2010
On the border between Maine and Canada, a dangerous smuggling operation is taking place. Drugs, cash, weapons, even people-- and something ancient and powerful and evil..

Flood tide

1997
Dirk Pitt faces the most formidable foe of his career when he encounters billionaire shipping magnate Qin Shang who is obsessed with salvaging the Princess Dou Wan, a ship reportedly loaded with Chinese art treasures--including the bones of Peking Man.

Pirates & smugglers

2008
Introduction to the highwaymen and women of the seas, from the cruel Cilician pirates who terrorized the Mediterranean more than 2,000 years ago to the well-organized and ruthless modern-day buccaneers who target supertankers on the South China Sea.

Jumping off the planet

2000
Charles, a young man who has grown up on the verge of trouble in a tube house in Bunker City, is surprised when his father shows up and invites him and his brothers to take a vacation trip to Beanstalk City where the high-tech elevator transport to the moon is located, but he is not at all shocked to discover his dad's motives are less than pure.

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