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Paper Money

Ken Follett · 253 pages

Originally published under the pseudonym Zachary Stone, this is a happily rediscovered suspense thriller written in the mid-'70s by Follett, the bestselling author of Lie Down with Lions. Its plot, set in London, and intended to show that crime, high finance and journalism are corruptly interconnected, is, according to Follett, the cleverest he has ever devised. The fast-paced action spans, in

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In the Dark

Mark Billingham · 440 pages

A deadly crash, a rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car, which swerves onto the pavement and plows into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost the life of an innocent victim. But the reality is far more sinister ... ; A dangerous quest, one life is wiped out and three more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on the trigger, the ageing gangste

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Certain Prey

John Sandford · 368 pages

Lucas Davenport confronts an entirely new kind of adversary in this harrowing "Prey" novel. Her name is Clara Rinker, an attractive, pleasant Southern woman--the best hitwoman in the business. But when she's hired for a job in Minnesota and a witness survives, that's when Davenport gets on her case--with no idea of the toll that it will take on him.

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Layer Cake

J.J. Connolly, John M. Connolly

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The Andalucian Friend

Alexander Soderberg · 446 pages

Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date ... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs ... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's

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Angel Baby

Richard Lange · 288 pages

To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to find the daughter she left behind years earlier, but she knows she may die trying. Her husband is El Principe, a key player in a high-powered drug cartel, a business he ru

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Savages

Don Winslow

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Life Deluxe

Jens Lapidus · 533 pages

Recently released drug dealer Jorge plans an audacious final heist, unaware that he is being tailed by an undercover investigator, a reckless partier, and an adversary who would take down crime boss Radovan Kranjic.

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The Good Life

Martina Cole · 560 pages

The best things in life are never free. Cain Moran wanted Jenny Riley more than he had ever wanted anyone or anything before in his life. But loving Jenny Riley was the easy part; it was telling his wife he wanted a divorce that was going to be the killer ... Jenny is not just any girl. She cares nothing for Cain's hard-man reputation - she just wants to be with him. But Cain is not a free man. An

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No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy · 320 pages

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed *Border Trilogy.* The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in th

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Clear and Present Danger

Tom Clancy · 760 pages

The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia. Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lines were things that, once decided, were better left unseen.

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Die Trying

Lee Child · 433 pages

When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.

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Taken

Jacqui Rose · 400 pages

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Sleeping Dogs

Thomas Perry · 343 pages

Action packed...The butcher's boy at his best

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Badlands

C.J. Box · 278 pages

"Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad-a place people used to be from, but were neve

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The Sentry

Robert Crais · 306 pages

Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the feder

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Bad Blood

Casey Kelleher · 317 pages

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American Blood

Ben Sanders · 339 pages

"After a botched undercover operation, ex-NYPD officer Marshall Grade is living in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Marshall's instructions are to keep a low profile: the mob wants him dead, and a contract killer known as the Dallas Man has been hired to track him down. Racked with guilt over wrongs committed during his undercover work, and seeking atonement, Marshall investigates the d

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The Dead Yard

Adrian McKinty

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The Madam

Jaime Raven

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Death Blow

Isabella Maldonado · 311 pages

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Blood Sister

Dreda Say Mitchell

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The Girl Who Lived Twice

David Lagercrantz

**THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK!** **The sixth in the Millennium series - more than 100 million copies sold worldwide** "Expertly told, the plot crackles with life" DAILY MAIL "Salander is centre stage . . . A pacy read" SUNDAY EXPRESS "Exciting and disturbing" LITERARY REVIEW "Salander and Blomkvist are just as compelling as ever" NEW YORK TIMES *****************************************

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The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

Charlie Huston · 319 pages

With a style that is razor sharp, an eye that never shies from the gritty details, and a taste for stories that simultaneously shock, disturb, and entertain, Charlie Huston is one of a kind. And The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is the type of story--swift, twisted, hilarious, somehow hopeful--that only he could dream up.The fact is, whether it's a dog hit by a train or an old lady who

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