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1) Raylan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
2) Cari Mora
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Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
Language
English
Description
Okwe is an illegal immigrant living in London. He was a doctor in his homeland and now works two jobs - during the day as a taxi driver, at night as a hotel desk clerk. When a prostitute tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. Using his previous knowledge of medicine, he begins to solve the case of where the heart came from and soon delves into the world of body organ black-markets. He finds...
5) The slaughter: mass killings, organ harvesting, and China's secret solution to its dissident problem
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of China's organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of this comprehensive investigation into the Chinese state's secret program to get rid of political dissidents while profiting from the sale of their organs--in many cases to Western recipients. Based on...
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English
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People came from all over the world to see Iris's lithe catlike body and her affinity for wild creatures; but beyond the celebrity of the Las Vegas footlights, a blackness grew. Only one man's gaze was that of a savior, a man of electricity and mystery--a mystery as deep and convoluted as her own.
7) Vulture peak
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Burdett's Bangkok series, featuring Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, has a reputation for being simultaneously morbid and witty. In Vulture Peak, Sonchai is tasked with ending human organ trafficking in Thailand. Before long he's wrapped up with a cast of characters that includes a washed-up rock star and a pair of Chinese twins known as the Vultures. And to complicate matters even further, Sonchai must also battle his ever-increasing...
9) Inhale
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A district attorney is desperate to save the life of his daughter, desperate enough to head to Mexico and gamble everything on getting her the illegal organs she needs to live. A searing suspense-thriller that proves breaking the law is the least a father will do to save someone he loves.
11) Traffickers
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Korean
Description
Entering international waters where countries' laws cannot be enforced, an ongoing black-market organ-trafficking operation is on board.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market. Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts. The Red Market reveals the rise, fall, and resurgence of this multibillion-dollar underground trade through history, from early medical study and modern universities to poverty-ravaged...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies. Elena Kelly is a body broker or "corpse wrangler," one of the best in her field. When she became too ambitious, cut too many corners and too many ethical (and legal) safeguards, she ran afoul of the law and medical profession, triggering a huge scandal in Louisville, Kentucky that quickly went national. She lost everything...
15) Tezcatlipoca
Author
Publisher
Yen On
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After war with a rival cartel, a drug lord meets a Japanese organ broker, and soon the two travel to Japan for a new business in the organ trade, but while there he takes a young, lonely boy under his wing, and the three lives gradually become entangled in a web of crime and violence.
17) Śpijcie, kotki
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Series
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
Polish
Description
Tom Stilton we współpracy z komisarz Mette Olsäter i Olivią Rönning bierze udział w dochodzeniu w sprawie morderstwa nastolatka, którego ciało znaleziono w lesie w Smalandii. W pobliżu znajdują nóż z inskrypcją, która wskazuje, że chłopiec mógł paść ofiarą rumuńskiego gangu. Mette Olsäter wysyła Stiltona i Olivię do Bukaresztu, gdzie wpadają na trop makabrycznej organizacji handlującej ludzkimi organami. Odkrycie sprawia,...
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Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 633
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta es una novela sobre varias personas cuya suerte queda ligada por un corazón. No se trata de un corazón simbólico, sino de un órgano que palpita y da la vida... y también la muerte. Esta es una novela sobre dos familias y dos continentes. Un hombre es ajusticiado en una cárcel china y sus órganos son objeto de tráfico. Su corazón acaba alojado en el pecho de un norteamericano, y ese trasplante marcará el futuro de las siguientes generaciones....
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
Exposes industrial-scale state-sanctioned organ trafficking in China, targeting imprisoned members of the religious organization Fulun Gong and other political prisoners. Two Nobel Peace Prize nominees share findings from their investigations into this problem.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Dos temas articulan la sugerente trama de esta novela: la mirada y la ciudad. Un espacio definido les sirve de vínculo: la clínica oftalmológica del doctor Suárez, versión mexicana de la célebre Clinica Barraquer en Barcelona. Casa de los signos, el edificio levantado por Suárez pretendre servir a la vista y a la visión, a la salud y las formas trascendentes que entran por los ojos. Pero este ideal ocurre en un México convulso, donde el...
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