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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Outfit
Richard Stark · 157 pages
You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack. They'r
Criminal, Vol. 2: Lawless
Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips · 128 pages
"Twenty years ago, Tracy Lawless escaped the crime-ridden streets of the city for a life in the military, and never looked back. But now his past is dragging him home from the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan, to find out who left his brother lying dead in an alley. As he digs through the wreckage of his family history, infiltrating the underworld life his brother Rick lived, the one thing Tracy ha
Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground
Darwyn Cooke · 96 pages
Parker is put to the test against crooked cops and sleazy gangsters after a heist goes south. He finds himself trapped in an amusement park closed for the winter and embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse...a game that slowly starts to favor the mouse.
Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners
Ed Brubaker · 144 pages
"Tracy Lawless returns in the Sinners. It's been a year since Tracy was forced into working for the bad guys, and now made men are turning up dead all over the city, in what appears to be mob-style hits. But since criminals don't go to the cops for justice, only Tracy can solve this crime."--Page [4] of cover.
Scalped, Vol. 1: Indian Country
Jason Aaron · 126 pages
Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in hopes of finding something better. Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on "The Rez" -- short of a glimmering new casino, and a once-p
The Mourner
Richard Stark, John Banville · 160 pages
The fourth Parker novel has the main character coming up against the KGB while on the trail of a small statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb.
The Sour Lemon Score
Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake · 160 pages
After a four-way split following a job, George Uhl begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one. His first mistake? He doesn't begin things by putting a bullet into Parker.
Batman: The Long Halloween
Jeph Loeb · 369 pages
Unaware of being watched, Batman pursues villains including Killer Croc and Poison Ivy, and discovers that Poison Ivy's latest plan will require that he ally himself with Catwoman in order to defeat his old friend Superman.
Hardcase
Dan Simmons · 272 pages
Ex-con Joe Kurtz is hired by a Buffalo mob boss to find a missing accountant.
The Getaway
Jim Thompson · 179 pages
Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.
100 Bullets, Vol. 7: Samurai
Brian Azzarello · 167 pages
Quarry in the Middle
Max Allan Collins · 206 pages
When a pair of warring crime families each hires the same hit man to knock off the other, the man in the middle finds himself in a very dangerous spot.
The Sudden Arrival of Violence
Malcolm Mackay · 391 pages
It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow s biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest and bloodiest manoeuvres are yet to come.
Spider-Man Noir
David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky · 292 pages
Lennox
Craig Russell
Shady private investigator Lennox is a hard man in a hard city at a hard time: Glasgow, 1953, where the war may be over but the battle for the streets is just beginning. It's a place where only the toughest and most ruthless survive.
Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
Mike Grell · 160 pages
Beautiful, Naked & Dead
Josh Stallings · 277 pages
Beautiful, Naked and Dead is a hard-boiled crime novel. Moses McGuire a suicidal strip club bouncer is out to avenge the death of one of his girls. From his East L.A. home, through the legal brothels of Nevada and finally to a battle with the mob in the mountains above Palo Alto, it is a sex soaked, rage driven, road trip from hell.
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.