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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBatman: No Man's Land, Vol. 3
Greg Rucka, Kelley Puckett, Larry Hama, Janet Harvey · 224 pages
Leveled by a massive earthquake that has left thousands dead, cut off from outside aid, Gotham now teeters at the edge of the abyss and Batman is missing.
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.
Thief of Thieves, Vol. 2, "Help Me"
Robert Kirkman, James Asmus · 144 pages
"Conrad Paulson lives a secret double life as master thief, Redmond. There is nothing he can't steal, nothing he can't have...except for the life he left behind. Now with a grown son he hardly knows and an ex-wife he never stopped loving, Conrad must try to piece together what's left of his life before the FBI finally catches up to him...but it appears they are the least of his worries." --p.[4] o
Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1
Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips · 432 pages
Thief of Thieves, Vol. 1: "I Quit."
Robert Kirkman, Nick Spencer · 152 pages
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit
Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark · 152 pages
Using a Nebraska plastic surgeon to create a new face, Parker, a master thief, plots revenge on the Outfit, an organization that is trying to kill him, as he sets up robberies in Outfit territory and waits for a confrontation with the head boss.
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
Sara Gran · 273 pages
This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greatest PI—at least, that's what she calls herself. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silett
The Fallen
Ace Atkins · 358 pages
"Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson had to admit he admired the bank robbers. A new bank was hit almost every week, and the robbers rushed in and out with such skill and precision it reminded him of raids he'd led back in Afghanistan and Iraq when he was an army ranger. In fact, it reminded him so much of the techniques in the Ranger Handbook that he couldn't help wondering if the outlaws were forme
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Don Brown · 96 pages
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the dro
Hyenas
Joe R. Lansdale · 100 pages
Roughneck buddies Hap Collins and Leonard Pine befriend a hapless fellow whose younger, weaker brother has fallen in with extremely bad company--he's just joined a gang of bank robbers whose leader is used to increasing his own share of the loot by killing the other gang members. Also includes "The Boy Who Became Invisible," a story Hap tells about something he witnessed years before.
Roses are Red
James Patterson · 409 pages
In this heart-pounding but touchingly romantic thriller, Detective Alex Cross pursues the most complex and brilliant killer he's ever confronted - mysterious criminal who calls himself the Mastermind.In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building - and then killing the bank employees and their families if thos
Black Wings Has My Angel
Elliott Chaze · 208 pages
"Gold Medal books weren't books that won literary awards, or any kind of awards at all. But during the 1950s Gold Medal put out some of the best writers America had to offer, writers like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis, who not only peered into the bleakest reaches of the psyche, but did it with blood-tinged glee. And while many of the Gold Medal pulps have since become acknowledged
Bad News
Donald E. Westlake · 344 pages
I'm a robber, John Dortmunder says, "not a grave robber." Yet he soon finds himself in a Long Island cemetery, in the very dead of night, with dirt up to his knees. His old friend Andy Kelp is to blame--Andy Kelp and the Internet. For it was while ambling on the Net that Kelp met up with master manipulator Fitzroy Guilderpost and his nefarious companions, the flunked teacher Irwin Gabel and the L
Absolute Power
David Baldacci · 528 pages
In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman are about to embark on a night of passion, trapping an unsuspecting burglar behind a secret wall. Then the lovemaking turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States. Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s i
Better Days and Other Stories
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Will Conrad, Dave Stewart, Michelle Madsen, Julius Ohta, Patton Oswalt