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Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero-turned-magnate, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul for the first time as the head of a US foreign aid agency dedicated to staunching the growth of the poppy fields in Fever Valley that feed the world's opiate epidemic. But on the drive back to Kabul from an anniversary trip with his wife, Rebecca, Daniel hits...
Author
Series
Caitlin Strong novels volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Jon Land's bestselling series featuring Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong continues in Strong Rain Falling.
Mexico, 1919: The birth of the Mexican drug trade begins with opium being smuggled across the U.S. border, igniting an all-out battle with American law enforcement in general and the Texas Rangers in particular.
The Present: Fifth Generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong and her lover Cort Wesley Masters both survive terrifying gun battles. But this...
Author
Language
English
Description
As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. The victim's name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little, only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but, described as quiet and kempt, she doesn't appear to be a fallen woman. What...
Author
Series
Ibis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Series
Charlie Chan collection volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Charlie Chan and his oldest son are in China to investigate an opium ring. At a banquet in Chan's honor, a murder occurs. While investigating, Chan and his son are kidnapped. They are able to escape and then work their way through complicated clues to expose the smugglers.
9) Rough trade
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this propulsive follow-up to The Best Bad Things, Alma Rosales (and her alter ego, Jack Camp) is back as a stevedore and part-time opium smuggler"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A period novel about a female detective who goes undercover (occasionally as a man), to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside" --
1887. Alma Rosales was trained in espionage by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as a man. She now works for Delphine Beaumond, the mastermind of a West Coast smuggling ring. When product goes missing at their...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For more than two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of the richest families in the world, known as 'the Rothschilds of the East.' Mesopotamian in origin, they descended from 12th century court families of Eurasia, and for more than forty years, were the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Iraq. Forced to flee the tyranny of Bagdadhi Moslems to Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, David Sassoon with his fourteen children, started...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Amitav Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family--the climax of a yearslong project"--
"When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on...
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