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Lethal Intent

Cara C. Putman

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When Caroline takes a job with a promising medical start-up, she believes she’s on the side of...

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel in Books

Sep 12, 2017

A Dummies guide to understanding and quashing the worldwide drugs trade

What a fantastic book. Tom Wainwright manages to describe the global drug cartels as a business economic model which makes total sense. It is not just the violence and torture, it’s the revelations about the level of managerial stress. Running a drugs cartel, it seems, is not only a moral and legal minefield but a human resources, marketing and supply chain nightmare. The gang-centric tattoos that cartel foot-soldiers sport, were instigated to prevent staff jumping to another outfit or, worse, going straight.

Wainwright makes clear that those seeking to stop the drugs trade fail due to their insistence on treating it like a war, when they should treat it like a market manipulation. Such a clever book.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Molly's Game (2017) in Movies

Mar 5, 2018 (Updated Mar 5, 2018)

Typically slick and snarky film from Aaron Sorkin, who does a good job of directing too. Over-achieving ex-skier goes to Los Angeles and winds up running big-money poker games; gets mixed up with the mob, legal troubles ensue.

One of those films benefiting from having a very topical theme about how women are (or were) overlooked in the entertainment industry, with a strong performance from Chastain. Feminist credentials are let down a bit by the prominence given to her father (Costner); also by the prominence given to Chastain's cleavage (one probably shouldn't say this, but: wow). In the end the film is a bit too keen on beatifying someone who was essentially a drug-addicted crook, at least for part of her career, but the story is engaging and well-told.

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Leah (: (569 KP) rated Dangerous Boys in Books

Jul 19, 2018

Dangerous Boys

Abigail Haas | 2014 | Mystery, Young Adult (YA)

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I read this book shortly after reading Dangerous Girls, the two books are in no way connected, they follow different people in different stories however they are similar.

The book uses a split perspective between then and now to explain the two main mysteries of the book. 1) how did we come to the situation at the start of the story. 2) which brother survived and how’s it going to play out now.

I found it hard to put the book down as I just wanted answers and it kept me guessing trying to work out what had happened and why.

I have got to say I did prefer Dangerous Girls I think it was because it had more of the legal side of the investigation.

I would definitely recommend this book.