police

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The glass caf?, or, The stripper and the state

how my mother started a war with the system that made us kind of rich and a little bit famous
2003
When twelve-year-old Tony, a talented artist, begins sketching the dancers at the Kitty Kat Club where his mother is an exotic dancer, it sparks the attention of social services.

The overlook

a novel
2007
Harry Bosch, newly transferred to the Homicide Special Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, is faced with the task of breaking in a rookie partner while investigating the murder of a physicist who had access to radioactive cesium, a substance coveted by terrorists.

Sacred clowns

1994
Navajo tribal policeman Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee attempt to unravel a web of tribal politics and murder.

What the dead know

2007
Baltimore detective Kevin Infante becomes caught up in investigating a long-ago crime when police arrest a woman involved in a rush-hour accident only to have her tell them she is the younger of the two Bethany sisters who went missing from a local mall thirty years earlier.

The hot kid

2005
In 1930s Tulsa, Oklahoma, hot shot marshal Carl Webster dreams of being America's most famous lawman and sets his sights on hunting down the city's most notorious and dangerous criminals, no matter what it costs him.

Global counterstrike

international counterterrorism
2005
Describes the history and current workings of various contemporary counterterrorist organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America.

U.S. counterstrike

American counterterrorism
2005
Examines the origins, tools, techniques, and major operations of the following United States counterterrorism forces: Delta Force, Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security.

From a Buick 8

a novel
2002
Eighteen-year-old Ned, having taken to hanging out at the barracks of state police Troop D in rural Pennsylvania after the death of his father, Trooper Curtis Wilcox, becomes obsessed with learning the truth about a 1954 Buick Roadmaster--apparently a conduit to the underworld--the squad has had secreted in a locked shed since 1979 when its owner mysteriously disappeared.

J. Edgar Hoover

powerful FBI Director
2002
Discusses the life and controversy of J. Edgar Hoover, former chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Talking God

1989
Separate police investigations become closely related when it becomes clear that Henry Highhawk is wanted by others besides the police and is involved in more than grave robbing.

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