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1) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
4) Big fish
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Altmeyer and his wife, Rachel, a couple of successful Los Angeles gunrunners, turn a simple business transaction into the possible nuclear annihilation of an entire continent.
Author
Series
Walt Longmire mystery volume 12
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming -- the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower -- to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a military-grade vehicle donated...
9) Free fire
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Justine, a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord, arrange a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris and shifty South African gun runner Vernon. What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it's every man (and woman) for themselves.
10) The catch
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gunrunning operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
Vanessa Michael Munroe has a reputation for getting things done-- but her work has left her with blood on her hands and a soul stained with guilt. Fleeing to Djibouti, Africa,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican border.
Guns and drugs are not often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-- but they should be. Grillo shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas-- and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth. He travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine...
Author
Language
English
Description
L.A. County sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood is working undercover on the iron river that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border. Bradley Jones, sheriff's deputy and employee of the Baja Cartel, is the son of the love of Charlie's life, dead L.A. outlaw Suzanne Jones. While Charlie decides what he'll do with all the information he has on Bradley, his obsession remains the existence of Mike Finnegan, the diminutive devil who flits in and out of both men's...
18) Jackie Brown
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, a stoned-out beach bunny and an earnest federal agent converge in a quest for a missing half million dollars.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In a Croatian village near the Serbian border, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs. The promised delivery never came, and the village was overrun. Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed them. Now the villagers can plot their revenge. For Harvey Gillott, now living in leafy...
20) The red road
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated after a money laundering scheme goes bad, and a woman...
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