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1) The Ride
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Once the bus was filled, a door separating the driver from the inmates was pulled closed and locked by the driver. A seat to the right side of the driver was for his partner. The driver started the engine and pulled the bus up to a check point. A gate pulled open, and the bus pulled in and stopped. The gate closed behind the bus. An officer exited the bus and entered a checkpoint office. He retrieved two pistols. He holstered his and handed the other...
2) I Am Mercury
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After a prison riot, two journalists find that a high profile inmate has gone missing. During their investigation, they discover a tangled web of kidnapping, espionage, and murder. Meanwhile, a protest group struggles against a shadowy agency with designs on the missing inmate. And the inmate himself has not only broken free from prison, but from a single universe, simultaneously experiencing multiple versions of his life.This Complete Omnibus Edition...
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Albert Maltz's novel captures the racial tension of America and the failure
of the American dream. As time ticks along with indifference, the inmates
of Washington's District Jail now spend their lives numbed by a daily
routine behind bars, shut out of society. Each prisoner has a story: some
are charged with assault, murder and manslaughter, others with forgery,
robbery and larceny; others still were simply born to certain parents at a
certain...
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With a click, the bread fell into the toaster. One circuit fired the heating coils. Others monitored bread temperature and color. Yet another circuit was quite unlike all the rest-as exotic as it was sinister;when it activated, 368 people would die. In the 23rd century, the justice system is airtight in the domed city of Arcadia. Human error has been removed. Yet somehow, a well-intentioned young kleptomaniac named Rainville falls through the cracks...
5) Outpost
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Award-winning author Scott Mackay's "fast-paced action adventure" depicts the story of a struggle for liberty against unknown captors-and a fight for survival in an unknown world… (The Washington Post).
Young Felicitas has woken in a prison cell-unable to remember how she got there.
She doesn't know where the prison is-except that it is most definitely not on Earth. And she has no idea why all the other prisoners walk around in a daze. In dreams,...
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2022 WINNER of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense for Deadly Conspiracies!Radiologist Lindsey Moran is about to achieve her goal of becoming a partner at Cascade Park Hospital when her father mysteriously dies in a prison riot shortly before the prison hospital closes and Cascade Park takes over the care of the inmates. She soon learns the three escaped prisoners aren't the only ones wreaking havoc on the city and suspects...
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"You haven't heard the last of us yet..."
These were chilling words on a note left behind by seven armed and dangerous inmates who escaped from the John Connally prison in South Texas on December 13, 2000. Their promise has apparently been fulfilled. The inmates, now known as the Connally Seven, are suspected of having first robbed a Radio Shack in Houston, and then, days later, on Christmas Eve, of having fatally shot and runover a young police...
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