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c2011., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Ell Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jason Kolarich novels Volume: 2Summary Note: "Jason Kolarich has spent the past year struggling to recover from the horrific deaths of his wife and baby daughter. On the night of their deaths, Kolarich was at the office, awaiting a call from a confidential informant named Ernesto Ramirez -- a call that never came. Kolarich blames himself not only for the deaths of his wife and child, but for the informant's murder as well. He can't bring back his family, but he can find out who killed Ramirez and bring the killer to justice. Unfortunately, Kolarich's guns-blazing approach to justice lands him smack in the middle of an FBI probe of a deeply corrupt governor and his cronies. To avoid jail, Kolarich must enter a world of wiretaps, double-dealing, and kickbacks, where he soon discovers that the murder of his informant was only the tip of the iceberg. This breach of trust runs up to the highest levels of power, and exposing it may drag Kolarich into the fight of his life."--Publisher.
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-- Damages.By Kessler, Glenn, 1970- Kessler, Todd A Zelman, Daniel Baker, Mark A Close, Glenn, 1947- Byrne, Rose Donovan, Tate Griffith, Anastasia, 1978- Harden, Marcia Gay Olyphant, Timothy Danson, Ted, 1947- Hurt, William KZK Productions (Firm) FX Productions (Firm) Sony Pictures Television Bluebush Productions (Firm) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)2012, p2009., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Damages 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Damages Volume: 2Summary Note: With the second season of the legal thriller Damages, the creators, writers, cast, and crew have accomplished a minor miracle by producing 13 episodes that match--and, at times, surpass--the level of nail-biting drama and suspense that made the show's freshman season one of the best in 21st-century television. The core cast is back for this round--which is something of a surprise, given that novice lawyer Rose Byrne is convinced that her legal-eagle boss (Glenn Close) is responsible for the murder of her fiancé. The story neatly weaves together a murder mystery involving an old flame (William Hurt) of Close's, Byrne's collaboration with federal agents (led by Mario Van Peebles, who also directs the season's fourth episode, "Hey! Mr. Pibb!"), and Hurt's involvement in an environmental scandal that implicates a major corporation. The threads come together in impressive fashion, and the quality of the writing and direction is matched at every turn by the cast, which also includes Marcia Gay Harden as Close's opposing council; Tate Donovan as Byrne's saintly confidante; Ted Danson, who reprises his winning turn as disgraced billionaire Arthur Frobisher; Saturday Night Live's Darrell Hammond as an unnerving killer; and a trio of HBO vets--Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant and The Wire's John Dornan and Clarke Peters--as a shady love interest for Byrne and a pair of malevolent corporate apparatchiks. If the third season of Damages achieves the level of quality of season 2 and its predecessor, it will be the neatest hat trick on TV since The Sopranos.
![Damages, season 2 [DVD] (2009). The complete second season /](/Library/images/~imageCT80618.JPG "Damages, season 2 [DVD] (2009). The complete second season /")
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c2008., Ballantine Books Call No: Fic How Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Meeting a dire end after double-crossing her lover, a ruthless crime lord, the cynical, amoral, and manipulative Drea returns to life a changed woman and joins forces with the FBI to become a guardian of the defenseless and the lover of an enigmatic stranger.
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2011., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Per Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Years after the Butcher's Boy wipes out several mobsters and disappears, Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is approached by the mythical hit man, who asks her for crucial information in exchange for helping her to crack an unsolved murder case.
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(2010, p2009)., Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Informant Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
![The informant! [DVD] (2009). Directed by Steven Soderbergh.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The informant! [DVD] (2009). Directed by Steven Soderbergh.")
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2015., Little, Brown and company Call No: MYS Fic Pel Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script. By turns heartbreaking and humane, brutal and funny, these finely constructed tales expose the violence and striving beneath the surface of any city and within any human heart. Tough, sexy, fast-paced, and crackling with energy, The Martini Shot is Pelecanos at his very best"-- Publisher.
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2007., General, Lionsgate Call No: DVD Fic Reservoir Edition: 15th anniversary [ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: They were the perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into a bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. Now, they have to figure out which one is the snitch.
![Reservoir dogs [DVD] (2007) Directed by Quentin Tarantino](/Library/images/~imageCT73333.JPG "Reservoir dogs [DVD] (2007) Directed by Quentin Tarantino")
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c2011., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: MYS Fic Per Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series Volume: 26Summary Note: "1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branch's Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take a sinister turn when Narraway, Pitt's superior, is accused of involvement in the death of an Irish informant and abruptly removed from office. Aware that her husband's own career is also in jeopardy if he is not reinstated, Pitt's wife Charlotte determines to help Narraway clear his name. As Charlotte and Narraway depart for Ireland and Pitt is drawn deeper into the investigation in France, it becomes clear that outside forces have conspired to separate them at a crucial time in the country's history. With no one else to trust can they make it back to England and stop the revolt before it's too late?"--Fantastic Fiction website.
