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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.

Organized CrimeCorrupt PoliceCrimeSparse Prose
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The Border

Don Winslow · 768 pages

Political CorruptionCorrupt PoliceConspiracyCrime
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Child 44

Tom Rob Smith · 480 pages

A propulsive, relentless page-turner.A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read."There is no crime."Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its cit

Corrupt PoliceConspiracyPolitical CorruptionCrime
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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.

Political CorruptionConspiracyOrganized CrimeCrime
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Two Trains Running

Andrew Vachss · 543 pages

The time, 1959 America. The place-a small, entirely corrupt Midwestern burg named Locke City, currently owned top to bottom by homegrown Royal Beaumont. Crippled by a childhood disease, Royal rules from a wheelchair-throne; few, though, have ever doubted that his power is absolute. Or not until now, when rival mobs-one Irish, one Italian-suddenly sense windows of opportunity. They lurk at Locke Ci

Political CorruptionOrganized CrimeCrimeConspiracy
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Nineteen Eighty Three

David Peace · 410 pages

The intertwining storylines see the Red Riding Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ the rent boy, lawyer Big John Piggott, and cop Maurice Oldfield, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in terrible vengeance.

Corrupt PoliceConspiracyCrimeMultiple POV
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Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett · 224 pages

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

Corrupt PolicePolitical CorruptionOrganized CrimeCrime
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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu

Corrupt PolicePolitical CorruptionConspiracyCrime
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Wicked City

Ace Atkins · 336 pages

**From "one of crime fiction's most interesting and passionate voices" (Laura Lippman) comes a new "noir crime classic" (Mystery Ink) about one of the most notorious towns in American history.** Reviewing White Shadow, the Associated Press wrote, "It is as gritty as James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential. And yet, the prose is as lyrical as James Lee Burke's Crusader's Cross. With White Shadow, Atki

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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.

Corrupt PoliceOrganized CrimeCrimePolitical Corruption
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Stieg Larsson · 602 pages

> Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have t

Corrupt PoliceConspiracyCrimeMultiple POV
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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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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

Corrupt PoliceCrimeConspiracyPolitical Corruption
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Age of Vice

Deepti Kapoor · 544 pages

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A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James · 704 pages

"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--

Political CorruptionOrganized CrimeCrimeDark
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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.

Organized CrimeSparse ProseCrimeDark
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The Black Wolf

Louise Penny · 375 pages

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Collusion

Stuart Neville · 464 pages

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Out

Natsuo Kirino · 394 pages

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

Organized CrimeSparse ProseCrimeMultiple POV
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The Day of the Owl

Leonardo Sciascia · 124 pages

A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence. A surprise turn puts him on the track of a series of nasty crimes. But all the while Bell

Political CorruptionCorrupt PoliceOrganized CrimeSparse Prose
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The Innocent

David Baldacci · 448 pages

Very good plot. Two people on the run cross paths one the hired assassin helps the other a young girl whose parents were murdered. It is the first in this series. Ok

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Three Seconds

Anders Roslund, Borge Hellstrom · 572 pages

Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, THREE SECONDS is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström-heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. Piet Hoffman, a top secret operative for the Swedish police, is about to embark on his most dangerous assignment yet: after years

Corrupt PoliceOrganized CrimeCrimeMultiple POV
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100 Bullets, Vol. 4: A Foregone Tomorrow

Brian Azzarello · 264 pages

ConspiracyOrganized CrimeCrimeDark

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