8 Results for : bilked
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Corporate Asset , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 579min
Corporate Asset takes RCMP undercover operative Jack Taggart into the world of white-collar crime and murder. Insurance companies are being bilked out of millions of dollars. Multiple murders are taking place right under the cops' noses, but are thought to be accidental. Taggart gets a whiff of what is going on when he captures a drug trafficker willing to expose one of the murderers connected to the plot. The problem is that the new informant is also a serial rapist. Corporate Asset puts Taggart into the gut-wrenching position of having to let a rapist go in order to catch a serial killer. With his informant's assistance, he sets himself up as bait to be murdered in a bid to discover who is behind the insurance scam. It is a race against time to catch the murderer before the rapist strikes again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014925/bk_adbl_014925_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Shark in the Housing Pool , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
Using forgeries and bogus identities, Matthew B. Cox - one of the most ingenious con men in history - bilked America’s biggest banks out of millions. Despite numerous encounters with bank security, state and federal authorities, Cox narrowly, and quite luckily, avoided capture for years. Eventually, he topped the U.S. Secret Service’s most wanted list, and led the U.S. Marshals, FBI, and the Secret Service on a three-year-chase, while jet-setting around the world with his attractive female accomplices. Cox has been declared “one of the most prolific mortgage fraud con artists of all time”, by CNBC’s American Greed. Bloomberg Businessweek called him “the mortgage industry’s worst nightmare”, while Dateline NBC described Cox as “a gifted forger and silver tongued liar”. Playboy magazine proclaimed, “His scam was real estate fraud, and he was the best”. Shark in the Housing Pool is Cox’s exhilarating, first-person account, of his stranger-than-fiction story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Shawn Milo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/199884/bk_acx0_199884_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bone by Bone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1339min
One of a very few National Book Award honorees to be nominated for fiction and nonfiction, Peter Matthiessen creates a curious blend of both in this tragic prequel to Killing Mister Watson and Lost Man’s River. An amazing novel in its own right, Bone by Bone caps the trilogy featuring the enigmatic E. J. Watson. During the Reconstruction Era, Edgar Watson grew up in the South at the mercy of a brutal alcoholic father and a vindictive mother. Witnessing the horrors of slavery, bilked out of his inheritance, and blamed in his youth for a murder he didn’t commit, E. J. developed a reputation for violence that preceded him everywhere he went. Finally, it brought him to a tragic and bloody end as his family watched in helpless horror. Borrowing an old local tale about a man who was killed by his neighbors, Matthiessen creates a powerful character. George Guidall’s excellent reading brings this moving tragedy home to us with a passion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Guidall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/003216/bk_reco_003216_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Killing Mr. Watson , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1033min
When Peter Matthiessen was 17, he was told the story of Edgar J. Watson, a popular and successful planter who had been murdered by his neighbors in 1910. This novel is Matthiessen’s attempt to piece together the life of a mysterious man who became a legend, and the dangerous legend that destroyed him. During the Reconstruction Era, Edgar Watson grew up in the South at the mercy of a brutal alcoholic father and a vindictive mother. Witnessing the horrors of slavery, bilked out of his inheritance, and blamed in his youth for a murder he didn't commit, E.J. developed a reputation for violence that preceded him everywhere he went. Finally, it brought him to a tragic and bloody end as his family watched in helpless horror. Borrowing an old local tale about a man who was killed by his neighbors, Matthiessen creates a powerful character. George Guidall's excellent reading brings this moving tragedy home to us with a passion. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Hammer, Norman Dietz, George Guidall, Barbara Rosenblat. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/005261/bk_reco_005261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Wild Beasts of Wuhan: Ava Lee, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 541min
Meet Ava Lee, alluring but deadly, with a mind like a steel trap, as she chases millions of dollars and dangerous criminals around the globe in this exotic and fast-paced new crime series by Ian Hamilton. In The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, Wong Changxing, a rich Chinese powerbroker, has just been bilked out of $100 million in an elaborate art forgery con. His one hope of recovering the money, and of saving face, is Ava Lee - a forensic accountant with a talent for tracking down untraceable funds. With the help of her mentor, the Triad-connected Uncle, Ava traces the provenance of the meticulously forged paintings to Denmark, the Faroe Islands, New York, and London. As she infiltrates one of the most prestigious auction houses in the world, she uncovers a massive web of corruption, where high art and high-stakes fraud threaten more than just her client’s business - this is one scam that could get her killed. Ava Lee is one of the most scintillating, unique heroines to come along in years. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Ikeda. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001630/bk_aren_001630_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Chocolate-Box Christmas Wish: Chocolate-Box Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 170min
He’s been all over the world. She’s a home-town girl. Can a holiday wish bridge the gap?In Cora Carpenter’s small California hometown, Christmas is tailor-made for couples. Unfortunately, Cora is a party of one, thanks to a con man who stole her heart, then bilked her out of thousands of dollars.What’s on her Christmas wish list this year? Nothing whimsical. She’ll take a new vacuum cleaner, thanks - and no dating for the foreseeable future. But when she meets a stranger with a broken-down car, his warm smile and perilously blue eyes almost make her want to tweak that list. If only she could get over the pain and humiliation of her past.A double whammy of betrayal and a broken heart sent anchorman Patrick Gervez thousands of miles west looking for a fresh start. But the pretty child care provider’s unforgettable amber eyes and deft hand with a set of jumper cables does funny things to his heart - and makes him wonder if she’s a forgotten dream come true.Except she’s as skittish as a piece of tinsel in a windstorm. And the only way to help her forget her heartbreak, is to convince her to forgive. Especially herself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allyson Voller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/235855/bk_acx0_235855_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Infectious Love: An Mpreg Romance: Silver Oak Medical Center, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
An omega with a mission. An alpha sworn to serve and protect. And an outbreak that will change both of their lives forever.Dave Stanek has spent the past decade of his life trying to atone for his family’s sins. While his parents bilked thousands out of their life’s savings and tried to bring him into the family business, Dave has built a successful career in medicine as an infectious disease specialist at Silver Oak Medical Center.Ken Sykora has seen a lot during his time in the Army and during his years on the force. When someone finds a vial at the scene of a meningitis outbreak, he’s obliged to consult with the Infectious Disease Specialist at Silver Oak Hospital.When Dave is assigned a meningitis case one evening, he finds himself face to face with the most attractive alpha cop he’s ever seen – and neck-deep in a biological terror case.Ken shares Dave’s attraction, notwithstanding the doctor’s superiority complex. Despite the gravity of the case they’re working, their mutual desire proves too much to contain. But when a night of pleasure leads to unintended consequences, they’ll have to decide if they can overcome their differences and build a life together – while catching a killer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaeomakana Tiwanak. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130648/bk_acx0_130648_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dude, Where's My Country? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 427min
He is the scourge of Stupid White Men everywhere. He's taken on fat cats, gun nuts, lying politicians. The Guardian describes him as "a wake-up call, a kick in the mental backside". And now Michael Moore is back, daring to ask the most urgent question of these perilous times: Dude, Where's My Country? Michael Moore is on a mission in his new book: regime change. The man who slithered into the White House on tracks greased by his daddy's oil buddies is one of the many targets in Mike's blistering follow-up to his smash number one Stupid White Men, the biggest selling nonfiction book of the year. Now no one is safe: corporate barons who have bilked millions out of their employees' lifetime savings, legislators who have stripped away our civil liberties in the name of "homeland security", and even that right-wing brother-in-law of yours (yes, we all have one) who manages, year after year, through his babbling idiocy, to ruin Thanksgiving dinner. Fearless, funny and furious, Michael Moore's new book is the call to arms we've all been waiting for, the kind of book that comes along once every so often that rallies citizens with humor and insight and changes the course of the country. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D. David Morin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000315/bk_time_000315_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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