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As a young fellow in Hanoi recently told me, "You Americans keep invading foreign countries while we Asians commandeer the global economy.
But Jo still knows trouble when she sees it, and when billionaire Russell Cole disappears from his yacht in Barbados and Cole's young trophy wife Carla commandeers all of his assets to buy and bribe her way into the charmed circle, Jo senses the presence of an evil that must be stopped.
Actually, "sneak and peek" is an incomplete phrase: Since cops can legally commandeer property under the provision, a more accurate term would be "sneak and peek and seize.
 
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