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It is 1887, and Alma is on the hunt for stolen opium. Trained in espionage by Pinkerton Detective Agency, Alma now works for Delphine Beaumond, the seductive mastermind of a smuggling ring. Alma's enjoying her dangerous game of shifting identities and double crosses as she fights for a promotion and an invitation back into Delphine's bed. But it's getting harder to keep her stories straight and to know whom to trust. One wrong move and she could be...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"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...
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Series
Liberty Lane novels volume 5
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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London, 1840. Private investigator Liberty makes a connection between a dead merchant and escalating rows with China over the lucrative opium trade. Can she solve a murder that took place six months ago, almost 5000 miles away?
5) Rough trade
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Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Katrina Carrasco plunges readers into the vivid, rough-and-tumble world of the late-1800s Pacific Northwest in this genre- and gender-blurring novel. Rough Trade follows Carrasco’s critically acclaimed debut The Best Bad Things and reimagines queer communities, the turbulent early days of modern media and medicine, and the pleasures -- and price -- of satisfying desire.
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