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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.

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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.

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Get Carter

Ted Lewis · 281 pages

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Rogue Lawyer

John Grisham · 344 pages

Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely sa

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Fierce

Nina Levine · 296 pages

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Complete Novels: Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett · 967 pages

"In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel."--BOOK JACKET. "The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing."--BOOK JACKET. "Each novel

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Blood & Roses Volume 1

Callie Hart · 388 pages

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The Lonely Silver Rain

John D. MacDonald · 255 pages

Someone is trying to kill Travis McGee, someone linked to southern Florida's drug traffickers--either Miami's old-time underworld or the new generation of Latino drug barons--and in order to save his own life, McGee must detonate a drug war.

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Tyrant

T.M. Frazier · 292 pages

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Layer Cake

J.J. Connolly, John M. Connolly

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The Bloomsday Dead

Adrian McKinty

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Savage Night

Jim Thompson · 256 pages

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Hard as Nails

Dan Simmons · 372 pages

Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer, Peg O'Toole, clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies, so narrowing down the suspects isn't easy. But Kurtz knows who's at the head of his list: Angelina Farino Ferrara, the lethal beauty who leads the Farino crime family, and

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Sleeping Dogs

Thomas Perry · 343 pages

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

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Exit Strategy

Steve Hamilton · 289 pages

Nick Mason has been given a true mission impossible: Infiltrate WITSEC, the top-secret federal witness-protection program that has never been compromised, locate the three men who put his boss Darius Cole behind bars for life, and kill them. As he risks everything to complete his mission, Mason finds himself being hunted by the very man he replaced, the ruthless assassin who once served, then betr

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Better When He's Bad

Jay Crownover · 366 pages

"Sexy, dark, and dangerous, Bax isn't just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he's the master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five years. Now Bax is out and looking for answers, and he doesn't care what he has to do or who he has to hurt to get them. But there's a new player in the game, and she's

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Den of Vipers

K.A. Knight · 654 pages

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Death Squad

Don Pendleton

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Reaper's Property

Joanna Wylde · 328 pages

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If Tomorrow Comes

Sidney Sheldon · 416 pages

***She's Tracy Whitney. Sidney Sheldon's most exciting heroine ever.*** Lovely, idealistic, she's soon to enter into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--***and to a passion, dangerous and elusive, that promises to fulfill all her secret dreams ...*** ***The international bestseller from the master of suspense. A mafia conspiracy and one woman against t

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Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan · 480 pages

Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.

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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.

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