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Finders Keepers
This is the story of Joey Coyle who found one million dollars. In 1981 in the city of Philadelphia, Joey stumbled upon a metal box laying in the street that fell out of the back of an armored truck. Lucky Joey found $1.2 million dollars, which was being transferred from a casino that contained all unmarked bills. Joey, an unemployed dockworker with an addiction to drugs was for once high on life naturally. Trouble surfaces due to his bragging of being t...
Killing Pablo
In 1993, after years of effort, a team of Colombian police and soldiers, with help from the U.S. government, finally caught up with and killed Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellin cartel and one of the world's wealthiest and most wanted criminals. This book chronicles the efforts of the Colombian National Police and United States forces that worked together to take Escobar down. Escobar began his criminal career as a smuggler, then began moving cocaine...