Dead Lawyers Don't Lie (Jake Wolfe, #1)
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“I’m Sarah Chance,” she said.
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While Sarah waited for the salesperson to arrive, she turned and took one last look at the man she’d bumped into, admiring the sexy, confident way he
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The way he’d gazed into her eyes, like he could see into her soul, had made her heart race.
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she was facing a crisis. An attorney had filed a lawsuit against her and the legal proceedings were scaring away customers and destroying her new business right when
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it had been starting to grow. She had her back to the wall, so as a last-ditch effort, she’d decided to try advertising on television. Sarah refused to give up; she’d fight for her career and her future, avoid bankruptcy,
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and turn her life around. Having a boyfriend would just be a distraction right now because sh...
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Banks used it as a mobile office to conduct private meetings in person or via a conference call.
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In order to ensure total secrecy, the software developer had been killed after he’d completed the
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job;
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He entered a password and logged in to a secret conference to join other ultra-wealthy members of a private group known as the
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Council. No member showed his or her face on the screen—only an outline of their country.
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“As I said when I hired him, Ivan Zhukov is one of the most respected and feared assassins in the world.”
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I’m keeping a close eye on Zhukov. We are prepared to have him terminated
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if he goes off track, makes a mistake, or crosses us in any way.”
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The other maps soon followed suit—Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Japan, South Africa, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Canada, Mexico, Australia,
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“Now would be good; we want the public to know about the lawyer deaths,
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“I’m sending you Wolfe’s home address, his fiancée’s name, their vehicles and license plates, phone numbers, friends and relatives, all of it,” Elena said.
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The best choice would be to stay on-board his friend Dylan’s boat.
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Death by Government.
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It told the truth about how the totalitarian governments of past regimes had killed tens of millions of innocent citizens
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in Russia, China, Germany, Japan, Turkey, North Korea, Cambodia, Pakist...
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“Probably almost sixty-two million people, nearly 54,800,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party—the government—of the Soviet Union.
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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the men who had caused over sixty million random
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murders didn’t go away.
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When many of them and their heirs found themselves unemployed, they simply began partici...
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First the KGB had made Zhukov into a trained killer and later the Russian mafia had recruited him as a hired gun.
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Eventually, he’d killed his handlers and had gone on to become a freelance assassin, working for the highest bidder and with loyalty to none.
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He’d felt his life was meaningless until he’d met the one person he’d genuinely cared about …
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Tatiana. A single tear ran down his cheek now.
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but for the one and only woman he’...
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The Organization had said that he needed to prove his loyalty. They’d said he had to be tested. They’d said Tatiana
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was too curious and she knew too much. His masters had told him he would one day understand why they’d killed Tatiana and that he would find another woman who was just like her or even better. They had said he would soon forget
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her. They had bee...
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“Here’s all you have to know about men and women. Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason
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women are crazy is that men are stupid.
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Johnny Cash’s cover version of “Hurt,” recorded a few months before his death.
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an attorney named Maxwell “Max” Vidallen was making a fortune suing doctors for dubious malpractice claims.
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highlights of Vidallen’s latest lawsuit, against a veterinarian named Sarah Chance.
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she mumbled in reply that her name was Hailey.
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that many of Hugh Hefner’s female houseguests had signed in years past at the Playboy Mansion.
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Max Vidallen had recently ended a six-month long arrangement with a woman named Belinda.
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He called and spoke to the madam. “Hello, Crystal, it’s Max Vidallen. I still miss Belinda,
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“Her name is Kelli Ivarsson, and she’s even more impressive
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in person. Kelli is a Swedish import, a blue-eyed blonde
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distinguished-looking older gentleman appeared next to him. The man was
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wearing a well-made Italian suit, expensive shoes, and a nice overcoat that all spoke of money and success. Jake recognized the man as a powerful attorney named Gregory “Bart” Bartholomew. He’d known Bart for many
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years. His daughter had held her wedding at the winery in Sonoma that...
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“Gregory Bartholomew, attorney at law, here to see my client,
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“I’m sorry that one cop was tough on you.
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but that one guy was overdoing the bad cop act a little bit.