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Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
4) Derailed
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Two married executives' flirtation leads to a one-night stand. Their fling turns dangerous when a violent criminal threatens to expose their secret and lures them into a terrifying game with more surprises and more danger than they may survive.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Description
A human story of jealousy, blackmail, self-made men, frustrated ambitions and secrecy that takes place in Melbourne, Australia in the 19th century and involves an investigation into a homicide where the deceased was discovered on the inside of a hansom cab. The influential and secretive Frettlby family is at the center of the mystery, and the name of the killer himself is not as much significance in the story, as is the role of the Frettlby family...
9) Heist
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
10) Concrete cowboys
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"A likeable sidekick comedy starring Tom Selleck and Jerry Reed as a pair of cowboy drifters whose lives get complicated in Nashville when they meet country stars (Roy Acuff, Barbara Mandrell, Ray Stevens) and a damsel in distress (Morgan Fairchild)."--back of container cover.
11) Nick of time
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.
12) Trespass
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A husband and wife are kidnapped by extornionists and held for ransom. As the situation gets worse and the pressure gets higher, they begin to uncover a web of deceit and betrayal.
13) Pain & Gain
Pub. Date
2013
Description
When an ambitious group of personal trainers go after the American dream, they get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong.
14) The Deep End
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Margaret Hall is the mother of three willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family safe, including trying to cover up the accidental death of her son's "unsavory" friend. The next day a man knocks on her door and demands money to suppress a videotape linking her son to the death, which the police have rules a homicide.
15) Burglar
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Ex-con Bernice Rhodenburr decides to commit a crime to pay a blackmailing cop.
17) No sudden move
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In 1950s Detroit, a group of criminals are hired to hold an accountant's family hostage while he retrieves a document as part of a blackmail scheme, but they soon find their plans going awry.
18) The Big Sleep
Description
In this hard boiled detective story, private eye Philip Marlowe gets caught up in a twisted tale of blackmail and murder.
19) The entitled
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family extort a fortune from three wealthy men. The plan: to abduct their socialite children and collect a healthy ransom of three million dollars. Once blood is shed and things go horribly wrong, Paul must fight to stay one step ahead of his own twisted game.