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Masters of Paradise

Author : Alan A. Block
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351309382
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Masters of Paradise written by Alan A. Block and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of organized crime's penetration of the islands and the corruption of its high officials during the time The Bahamas become politically independent of Great Britain. It describes secret U.S. Internal Revenue Service operations aimed at American criminals involved in Bahamian-based tax scams and similar crimes. Block paints a devastating picture of a symbiotic relationship among off-shore tax havens in The Bahamas, sophisticated American criminals, and complacent public officials in the United States. During the 1960s and 1970s, the I.R.S. launched major investigations into American organized crime and the subterranean economy of The Bahamas. Block's access to the private papers of many of the key players in these affairs has given him a unique perspective. He has uncovered details of crime, corruption, and bureaucratic infighting within and among the U.S. Treasury and Justice Departments that have been largely unrecognized by previous researchers. Block shows how important links in the international traffic in cocaine were forged in the Bahamas, in full view of American officials. Masters of Paradise raises major questions about American law enforcement officials' commitment to fighting complex international crime during the 1960s and the 1970s. While there have been other studies of tax havens, money laundering, and offshore investigations, Block's access to information and his grasp of its meaning is unique. Professionals interested in the history and sociology of organized crime and the underground economy will find this book eye-opening. General readers interested in organized crime and political corruption will find it absorbing.

Masters of Paradise

Author : Alan A. Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780000025241
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Masters of Paradise written by Alan A. Block and published by . This book was released on 1990-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All Is Clouded by Desire

Author : Alan A. Block
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313017468
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book All Is Clouded by Desire written by Alan A. Block and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-07-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books on international organized crime, money laundering, and the complicity between legitimate and illegitimate businesses in both the United States and the former Soviet Union, among other places, during the last decade of the 20th century, All Is Clouded by Desire examines the criminal dealings that led to the revelation that the Bank of New York's Eastern European Division laundered $6 billion for Russian organized criminals and other shady organizations and individuals. In a series of intrigues that involved crooked Geneva banker Bruce Rappaport and high-level members of the Bank of New York, criminal Russian organizations were able to thrive and prosper during a time when the rest of the former Soviet Union crumbled amidst growing corruption and a declining economy. Tracing the financial shenanigans back many years, Block and Weaver illustrate how the underworld of high finance, money laundering, mafia groups, CIA operatives, and legitimate banking institutions can clean dirty money and operate criminal enterprises that span the globe. Block and Weaver carefully assemble a vivid examination of the world of hot money in the arena of international banking and the roles played by Intelligence, the politically connected, and the criminally inclined. Focusing on the intensely private Genava banker Bruce Rappaport and the Bank of New York, the authors show how the two worked together with dodgy Russian banks to move and launder billions through channels that include off-shore banks, shady joint-ventures, and outright criminal organizations. Relying on primary sources from the logs of the institutions involved, interviews with British Intelligence operatives and former CIA officers, secret discussions with private detectives handling the infamous Marc Rich tax case, and material collected by two private detective agencies in London and New York, the book exposes the various machinations that were instrumental in completing the financial schemes that would ultimately cause the downfall of two top Bank of New York executives.

Burning Paradise

Author : Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765332612
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Burning Paradise written by Robert Charles Wilson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Cassie Klyne and her younger brother Thomas, along with other members of their group, try to lead unexceptional lives in order to escape the detection of an extraterrestrial entity, who, by interfering with the world's communications, is attempting to farm humanity.

Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell

Author : Chas Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062202545
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell written by Chas Smith and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, is surfer and former war reporter Chas Smith’s wild and unflinching look at the high-stakes world of surfing on Oahu’s North Shore—a riveting, often humorous, account of beauty, greed, danger, and crime. For two months every winter, when Pacific storms make landfall, swarms of mainlanders, Brazilians, Australians, and Europeans flock to Oahu’s paradisiacal North Shore in pursuit of some of the greatest waves on earth for surfing’s Triple Crown competition. Chas Smith reveals how this influx transforms a sleepy, laid-back strip of coast into a lawless, violent, drug-addled, and adrenaline-soaked mecca. Smith captures this exciting and dangerous place where locals, outsiders, the surf industry, and criminal elements clash in a fascinating look at class, race, power, money, and crime, set within one of the most beautiful places on earth. The result is a breathtaking blend of crime and adventure that captures the allure and wickedness of this idyllic golden world.

Masters of Paradise

Author : Alan Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877959649
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Masters of Paradise written by Alan Block and published by . This book was released on 1924-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Los Tiranos Del Paraiso

Author : Mariano Morillo B.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479759457
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Los Tiranos Del Paraiso written by Mariano Morillo B. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOS TIRANOS DEL PARAISO is a novel, Literary work, about the social problem in the world Community, that enclose a conflict where Elmar Valenilla is a innocent man that by a misunderstood, was send to jail for a order court violation, there he found a group of prisoners victims of their environment, they keep trap, and could not escape of their psychology condition. The Makrowki professor has been discover a recipe that only was apply to rats and cats, but, the Kingdom boss want that he apply this to a human with the purpose of you the effect against the peace at Island Dorada at the Central Caribbean. Through this emerge intrigue that move Elmar Valenilla intervention to development the prisoners mind to produce a change.

This Side of Paradise

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775414833
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book This Side of Paradise written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.

Trouble in Paradise

Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101546328
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Trouble in Paradise written by Robert B. Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesse Stone returns in this New York Times bestselling novel of death and deception from Robert B. Parker. Stiles Island is a wealthy and exclusive enclave separated by a bridge from the Massachusetts coast town of Paradise. James Macklin sees the Island as the ultimate investment opportunity: all he needs to do is invade it, blow the bridge, and loot the island. To realize his scheme, Macklin, along with his devoted girlfriend, Faye, assembles a crew of fellow ex-cons—all experts in their fields—including Wilson Cromartie, a fearsome Apache. James Macklin is a bad man, a very bad man. And Wilson Cromartie, known as Crow, is even worse. As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone has his hands full. He faces romantic entanglements in triplicate: his ex-wife, Jenn, is in the Paradise jail for assault, he’s begun a new relationship with a Stiles Island realtor named Marcy Campbell, and he’s still sorting out his feelings for attorney Abby Taylor. When Macklin’s attack on Stiles Island is set in motion, both Marcy and Abby are put in jeopardy. As the casualties mount, it’s up to Jesse to keep both women from harm.

The Adam and Eve Sindrome

Author : Roy Masters
Publisher : FHU Bookstore
ISBN 13 : 0933900112
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book The Adam and Eve Sindrome written by Roy Masters and published by FHU Bookstore. This book was released on 1985 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Master's Violin

Author : Myrtle Reed
Publisher : Pantianos Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Master's Violin written by Myrtle Reed and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 1904 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myrtle Reed's classic novel is not simply a romantic story, but a celebration of life, love and the exquisiteness of music. The story involves a virtuoso violin player living in Lancaster, whose house is kept by his spinster sister. In a different neighborhood of town, an elderly lady who adopted and raised a young girl is surprised when her relatives- a widow and her son - arrive unannounced and wish to stay. The son, being musically talented, aspires to take up tutorage with the famous violinist of Lancaster. Thus begins an awkward situation that serves as a gauntlet for the passionate story which follows. Notably for a book of this genre, The Master's Violin contains many musings on the nature and value of family, music, parenthood, friendship and life. The reflective and thoughtful narration, along with the poignant descriptions of the master's performances, makes this a unique and memorable story. The author was among the most famous and appreciated novelists of her time. Unusually for a romance author, Reed also published a series of successful cookbooks. Though her fame declined in the years following her death in 1911 at the age of only 36, her books have maintained an appreciative audience into the 21st century.

Halfway to Paradise

Author : Tony Orlando
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429979122
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Halfway to Paradise written by Tony Orlando and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's known the world over for his heyday with Dawn, but that glittering 1970's whirl was just one chapter in Tony Orlando's rich life. Orlando began his showbiz career as a teen heartthrob with the single "Halfway to Paradise" and had a second successful act as a record company A&R man before he was lured back into the limelight as a performer. Fans from the l960s to the present day have loved his voice, his stage presence and his hits, like "Knock Three Times" and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree." Now, Tony has written an autobiography as warm and heartfelt as his songs. Halfway to Paradise is rich with stories from the music world-from doo wop to the disco era, from early recording with Gerry Goffin and Carole King to recent concerts in Branson, Missouri and across the United States. It's also full of behind-the-scenes detail of how it felt to be at the top of the entertainment heap-with his #1-rated CBS show, Tony's life in front of and behind the camera was grand, but sometimes not all it seemed. Orlando succumbed to one of the familiar antidotes to the pressures of a big life: drug use, with its predictable toll on family and friendships. And even as his career was soaring, he was unable to save his best friend Freddie Prinze from a fatal downward spiral. With a return to roots-and to the close-knit family that has always sustained him-Tony restored the order and creativity that have allowed him to thrive through four decades of exuberant entertaining. Halfway to Paradise is a wise, funny and spirited life story, and a must-read memoir for fans.

See You in Paradise

Author : J. Robert Lennon
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973280
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book See You in Paradise written by J. Robert Lennon and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first substantial collection of short fiction from "a writer with enough electricity to light up the country" (Ann Patchett) "I guess the things that scare you are the things that are almost normal," observes one narrator in this collection of effervescent and often uncanny stories. Drawing on fifteen years of work, See You in Paradise is the fullest expression yet of J. Robert Lennon's distinctive and brilliantly comic take on the pathos and surreality at the heart of American life. In Lennon's America, a portal to another universe can be discovered with surprising nonchalance in a suburban backyard, adoption almost reaches the level of blood sport, and old pals return from the dead to steal your girlfriend. Sexual dysfunction, suicide, tragic accidents, and career stagnation all create surprising opportunities for unexpected grace in this full-hearted and mischievous depiction of those days (weeks, months, years) we all have when things just don't go quite right.

Kung Fu Cult Masters

Author : Leon Hunt
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364635
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Kung Fu Cult Masters written by Leon Hunt and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Martial Arts films have captured audiences' imaginations around the world. In this wide-ranging study, Hunt looks at the mythic allure of the Shaolin Temple, the 'Clones' of Bruce Lee, gender-bending swordswomen, and the knockabout comedy of Sammo Hung, bringing new insights to a hugely popular and yet critically neglected genre. 12 photos.

Masters of English Literature

Author : Edwin Watts Chubb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Masters of English Literature written by Edwin Watts Chubb and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Alien Web

Author : Robert E. Vardeman
Publisher : Avon Books
ISBN 13 : 9780380750054
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Alien Web written by Robert E. Vardeman and published by Avon Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complete Works of John Milton. Paradise Lost, Areopagitica, Lycidas and others

Author : John Milton
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1696 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Works of John Milton. Paradise Lost, Areopagitica, Lycidas and others written by John Milton and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written. He achieved international renown within his lifetime; his celebrated Areopagitica (1644), written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship, is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Milton was a "passionately individual Christian Humanist poet." He appears on the pages of seventeenth century English Puritanism, an age characterized as "the world turned upside down." He was a Puritan and yet was unwilling to surrender conscience to party positions on public policy. Poets such as William Blake, William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy revered him. The Poetry Collections POEMS, 1645 PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED SAMSON AGONISTES POEMS, 1673 VERSES FROM MILTON’S COMMONPLACE BOOK The Prose Works AREOPAGITICA THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE ON EDUCATION COLASTERION THE TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA