Download or read book Kidnapped by a Client written by Sharon R. Muse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn’t do something, I was going to die.” This is not a manufactured dialogue from a thriller but the words of attorney Sharon Muse. They came after she survived an attempted kidnapping, rape, and murder at the hands of Larry Morrison, a former client. On April 7, 2006, Muse miraculously escaped from the sociopathic Morrison, only to find that the threat to her life was just beginning. Ineptitude in the justice system threatened to release Morrison and allow him the opportunity to finish the job, which he adamantly pledged to do. Muse would have to fight at every step to ensure her safety. Muse would act as her own advocate, investigator, legal counsel, and bodyguard in the years following the event. Kidnapped by a Client covers the brutal kidnapping, two trials, two appeals, procedural errors galore, one Supreme Court reversal, and even Muse’s intricate plan to murder Morrison before he could get to her. Muse would not ultimately execute that plan, and she would emerge victorious in the legal battle thanks to her faith and her own determination and legal acumen. But her safety is not ensured: Morrison is up for parole in 2026. Muse regularly monitors his status. Muse recounts her stranger-than-fiction story in Kidnapped by a Client. Muse analyzes the failures of the legal system, the mistakes she made, the steps she took to protect herself, and how she has coped with trauma. Readers will find not only a compelling narrative, but also insight into how to protect oneself and ensure one’s own safety and well-being.
Download or read book The Kidnapping Club written by Jonathan Daniel Wells and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom. We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon, far removed from the booming cities of the North. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe. Not only was the city built on the backs of slaves; it was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. In The Kidnapping Club, historian Jonathan Daniel Wells tells the story of the powerful network of judges, lawyers, and police officers who circumvented anti-slavery laws by sanctioning the kidnapping of free and fugitive African Americans. Nicknamed "The New York Kidnapping Club," the group had the tacit support of institutions from Wall Street to Tammany Hall whose wealth depended on the Southern slave and cotton trade. But a small cohort of abolitionists, including Black journalist David Ruggles, organized tirelessly for the rights of Black New Yorkers, often risking their lives in the process. Taking readers into the bustling streets and ports of America's great Northern metropolis, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism, the deeply corrupt roots of policing, and the strength of Black activism.
Download or read book Birthright written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the remarkable story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped." Award-winning author Ekrich recounts an extraordinary family drama of betrayal and loss--but also of resilience, survival, and redemption.
Download or read book Kidnapped written by Aime Austin and published by Moore Digital Media Inc. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One baby. Two mothers. King Solomon’s choice was easy compared to this. Ready to pivot her legal practice away from the stress and moral ambiguity of criminal law, Casey Cort accepts lucrative referrals from the Hudson Adoption Agency. But when she’s ready to finalize a client’s first adoption, she learns the child’s origins aren’t all they seem. After escaping a brutal home life, Alile Rubadiri is denied asylum in Britain. To avoid being deported to Africa, she ventures into the shady world of illegal au pairs…and discovers that her new young charge may be the child stolen from her. Without family, money, or legal status, Alile has no means to fight for her daughter. And the ambitious surgeon who claims to be the little girl’s adoptive mother is fighting to keep her at all costs. Caught in a battle of Biblical proportions, Casey prays for the wisdom of Solomon because both women will do anything for their daughter, but a judge can only choose one mother. Kidnapped is the next installment in the high-stakes Casey Cort legal thriller series. If you like strong women, the fight against child trafficking, and stories ripped from the headlines, you’ll love Aime Austin’s page-turning novel. About the Casey Cort Crime Fiction Series: Legal thriller readers will love this explosive series. Follow attorney Casey Cort from her first case to her most current. A solo practitioner she takes on the most difficult cases in Cleveland from investigating foster care abuses to judicial extortion to the sex trafficking of minors. Will the powers that be succeed in silencing her once and for all, or will the underdog lawyer represent those most in need of justice? The Casey Cort series has everything thriller and suspense readers love: strong women, explosive secrets, David versus Goliath struggles, and stories ripped from the headlines, you’ll love Aime Austin’s page-turning novel. If you enjoy reading the Lynley series by Elizabeth George, and legal thrillers by John Grisham, Robin James, Melissa F. Miller, and Rebecca Forster. If you like, Phillip Margolin, Karin Slaughter, and Tana French you'll enjoy the Casey Cort series.
Download or read book Kidnap Hijack and Extortion The Response written by Richard Clutterbuck and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-07-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kidnapped by the Billionaires written by Drusilla Swan and published by Drusilla Swan. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped by the Billionaires is a wolf shifter enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, fated-mates, billionaire captive romance. My entire life, I was rejected for not being the proper daughter of the mayor of Huntington Harbor. I was too big. Too clumsy. Too shy. I never imagined that being captured and sold to cover my father's debts would give me what I was searching for all along. The two men who buy me are charming. Powerful. Ruthless. Inhuman beasts spoken of in fearful whispers. Now they own me. With pleasure as their weapons, they are determined to break my innocence and bend me to their will. My body recognizes they are my fated mates, but I refuse to give them my heart. As dangers mount, and I discover the true extent of my father's betrayal, everything I thought I knew will be tested. Will my captors be my saviors or lead to my destruction? This is a standalone story with a HEA. Each book in the Mating Season series features a new billionaire werewolf MMC duo and new FMC. All of the Mating Series books can be read independently in any order.
Download or read book Zero at the Bone written by John Heidenry and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This haunting true crime tale brings to life the infamous 1953 kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease. The son of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer, Bobby was just six years old when a pair of grifters, Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady, snatched him away-and set what was then the country's highest ransom ever paid. Six hundred thousand dollars later, Bobby was killed anyway, setting off a chain of events that would culminate in notorious mobster Joe Costello stealing half the ransom and Hall and Heady's eventual double execution. Told by acclaimed journalist John Heidenry in bone-chilling detail, and featuring a cast of characters ranging from underground crime bosses and hard-boiled detectives to the victim's family and the murderers themselves, this is the story of one of the most complex and least understood crimes in American history. Book jacket.
Download or read book When She s Gone written by Jane Palmer and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disgraced bodyguard and a top-notch FBI officer must join forces—and set aside their differences—to solve a kidnapping case that's far more dangerous than it appears Ara Zuyev is a secret to nearly everyone, and those who know anything about her have barely scratched the surface. A bodyguard for a powerful billionaire, she is the last line of defense for the family's inner circle. But when her charge, 16-year-old Samantha Harper, is kidnapped and the FBI are called in, Ara immediately comes under suspicion. She didn't follow basic security protocol, which should have been second nature for her. And now Samantha's life hangs in the balance. Assertive and authoritative, Luke Patrick is the best the FBI has to offer. Nothing about Ara's story is adding up, and when Ara attempts to take control of the investigation, Luke is convinced she knows far more than she's saying. As the case develops and new details are discovered, Ara and Luke are forced to work together. She needs his investigative team. He needs her inside knowledge of the family. But neither of them trust each other. Their uneasy alliance is formed with one goal in mind: to bring Samantha home alive. But what initially looks like a simple kidnapping for ransom quickly spirals into something far more sinister in Jane Palmer's explosive series debut When She's Gone.
Download or read book The Judge written by Farin Powell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powell opens her novel with a bang, depicting the abduction almost as soon as the narrative begins. The story is impressive in the way it shifts readers sympathiesa gem of a legal thriller, full of plot twists and juicy secrets. Kirkus Reviews The Judge by Farin Powell expertly weaves a thrilling kidnapping plot, a love story, and courtroom drama into a page turning tale. Powell keeps the excitement in tune with a pitch-perfect delivery of realistically motivated characters and a nonstop series of powerfully tense situations. Clarion Review Powells legal thriller reveals the complexities and tragedies of our criminal justice system. The story in this fast-paced novel will stay with the reader forever. Focus On Women Magazine Powell puts her legal knowledge as a practicing D.C. lawyer to good use Publishers Weekly As Judge Walter McNeil heads home from Washington, DCs Superior Court, he is preoccupied with the triple-murder case assigned to him. But everything changes when a car pulls up next to him and a man asks for directions. Seconds later, McNeil is pushed into the backseat of the car, knocked unconscious, and whisked away into uncertainty. McNeils kidnappers are three ex-convicts whose lives have been ruined by the judges harsh sentences. Out for revenge, they feed the judge drugs, repeatedly threaten his life, and then imply they have his teenage daughter, Daphne, who disappeared four years earlier. After they tell him at gunpoint that he must rule favorably on a defense attorneys motions in the triple-murder case, McNeil has no idea his ordeal is just beginning. Before it is over, the judges life will be turned upside down. In this legal thriller, a judge is kidnapped and thrust into the midst of a twisted web that intertwines him with the lives of three ex-convicts and the mystery surrounding his missing daughter.
Download or read book Mysteries at Sea The Hollywood Kidnap Case written by A.M. Howell and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice and Sonny investigate the kidnapping of a Hollywood star, in this installment of the bestselling Mysteries at Sea series, from award-winning author A.M. Howell. Alice and Sonny's family yacht is in Egypt, ready to pick up famous actress Estelle Fortune, and take her to London to film her next blockbuster movie. But just before the boat leaves, Alice discovers that Estelle has vanished! In her room is a note, threatening that unless a large amount of money is paid in Malta in a few days' time, Estelle will be thrown overboard. As the Lady Rose sets sail, Alice, Sonny and their new friend Winnie must work out who is threatening Estelle, but can they save her, before time runs out? Praise for the Mysteries at Sea series: "An exquisitely plotted nautical adventure, packed with mystery and derring-do." Judith Eagle, author of The Accidental Stowaway "A high-octane nautical adventure, brimming over with secrets and sabotage." Nicola Penfold, author of Where the World Turns Wild ""Will appeal to fans of the Adventures on Train series." The Bookseller "Absolutely unputdownable." Zillah Bethell, author of The Shark Caller "Brilliant story which kept me gripped until the very end!" Ewa Jozefkowicz, author of The Dragon in the Bookshop
Download or read book Stolen written by Lucy Christopher and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning debut novel with an intriguing literary hook: written in part as a letter from a victim to her abductor. Sensitive, sharp, captivating!Gemma, 16, is on layover at Bangkok Airport, en route with her parents to a vacation in Vietnam. She steps away for just a second, to get a cup of coffee. Ty--rugged, tan, too old, oddly familiar--pays for Gemma's drink. And drugs it. They talk. Their hands touch. And before Gemma knows what's happening, Ty takes her. Steals her away. The unknowing object of a long obsession, Gemma has been kidnapped by her stalker and brought to the desolate Australian Outback. STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.
Download or read book KIDNAPPED TO SOUTH AMERICA written by Randy Anglen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a parent's worst nightmare - losing a child. Not to disease or accident, but to a kidnapping. Randy Anglen's only son was abducted to South America by his Chilean mother when he was 20 months old. Anglen fought to get his son for 4 years, fighting a Chilean court system that ignored international law and protected the mother. Anglen searched the streets of Santiago for his son, hatched plans to steal his son out of Chile, paid witnesses and private investigators and made numerous trips to Chile. He was as close at 10 feet from his son, but physically unable to get to him. Chilean courts handed him setback after setback, despite the best efforts of a team of attorneys and U. S. Department of State personnel. The story does not have a happy ending. Anglen writes this book so his son will know what happened -what his daddy did to try to get his son. This is a story of intense grief, fear, frustration and injustice. A story of a father's fight to save the bond between him and his son. A story of a father's love for his child. A story of a corrupt and inefficient South American bureaucratic system that destroyed the relationship between a father and his son. After reading this story, you will give your children an extra hug.
Download or read book Kidnap written by Anja Shortland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably low ransoms. In fact, the market for hostages is so well ordered that the crime is insurable. This is a puzzle: ransoming a hostage is the world's most precarious trade. What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? And why would kidnappers release a potential future witness after receiving their money? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.
Download or read book Frequently Asked Questions About Kidnapping and Abduction written by Kristina Lundblad and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the psychology of kidnappers and provides tips on staying safe at home, in public, and online.
Download or read book Incident at Devils Den A True Story by Terry Lovelace Esq written by Terry Lovelace and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of the 1977 alien abduction as told by a former Assistant Attorney General and USAF veteran. He and a friend were taken while remote camping in an Arkansas State Park. Includes the 2012 x-rays of an alien implant discovered on a routine x-ray. It was the catalyst to tell the story he had to retire before he could tell.
Download or read book Kidnapped in Texas written by Barb Han and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets from the past…and a child in peril Texas Kidnapping Aiming a shotgun at a would-be kidnapper showed Renee Smith she had the instincts she would need to safeguard her newly adopted daughter. But when US marshal Cash O’Connor offers her a safe haven at his Texas ranch, she knows it’s best to accept his protection. Renee’s incident is eerily similar to Cash’s infant sister’s unsolved kidnapping thirty years ago. And Cash vows to ensure history doesn’t repeat itself. What She Knew When Amber Kent’s old friend navy SEAL Rylan Anderson suddenly becomes the guardian of a baby, he turns to her for help. But then the baby is nearly abducted in Amber’s care and it’s clear the situation is more complicated than it seems. Can they discover the truth behind the baby’s identity…before she’s gone for good? USA TODAY Bestselling Author Previously published as Texas Kidnapping and What She Knew
Download or read book The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping written by Keigo Higashino and published by Kodansha USA. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle-tested project leader at a PR firm and slippery bachelor, Sakuma sees himself as a player. His smug self-regard doesn't seem entirely unfounded, both in love and at work. When is idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed as too costly and vacuous at the last minute by a major client he seems to have met his match. Katsuragi, an heir and executive at the global car maker, Nissei Auto, is back from a marketing stint in the US with an authentic conviction that everything is a game. Once the man's daughter by a former mistress teams up with Sakuma so she can come into her inheritance in an expeditious manner—Juri is indeed her father's flesh and blood—the game is good to go! And the name of this game is a kidnapping!
