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Beat the Reaper

Josh Bazell · 310 pages

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Citizen Vince

Jess Walter · 304 pages

Beginning his witness-protection job at a doughnut restaurant in the week before the 1980 presidential election, small-time thief Vince Camden finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a local politician's troubles.

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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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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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The Death and Life of Bobby Z

Don Winslow · 259 pages

When Tim Kearney draws a license plate across the throat of a Hell's Angel, he's pretty much a dead man. It's his third crime and, according to California law, that gives him "life without the possibility of parole." Killing a Hell's Angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in California. That's when the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z s

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Florida Straits

Laurence Shames · 334 pages

A man is caught in a fight between his brother and a Mafia boss.

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Gone Bamboo

Anthony Bourdain · 304 pages

Welcome to the retirement home of Henry and Frances, ex-New Yorkers and professional assassins. A luxury hotel suite in an idyllic, tequila-drenched Caribbean hideaway. It's supposed to be all cocktails and sex on the beach. But when a job icing a Mafioso godfather goes awry, trouble hits paradise...in the form of a cross-dressing capo, a debauched Irish hard man and a slew of incompetent but vici

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Get Shorty

Elmore Leonard · 304 pages

Mob-connected loanshark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind -- plus his "friends" have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town with its dreammakers, glitter, hucksters, and liars -- plus gorgeous, partially clad would-be starlets everywhere you look -- seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste

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61 Hours

Lee Child · 481 pages

Jack Reacher is back.The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bo

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Dark Blood

Stuart MacBride · 487 pages

"Martin Knox has served his time, so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, he was convicted of the brutal rape and abduction of a sixty eight year old man, but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle and make a new start. Or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settl

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Flesh Wounds

Christopher Brookmyre · 443 pages

Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name - and that only through a strange bond she has forged with the man who killed him: Glen Fallan. But when Fallan is arrested for the murder of

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Plugged

Eoin Colfer · 298 pages

Daniel McEvoy has a problem. Well, really, he has several, but for this Irish ex-pat bouncer at a seedy, small-time casino the fact that his girlfriend was just murdered in the parking lot is uppermost in his mind. That is until lots of people around him start dying, and not of natural causes. Suddenly Daniel’s got half the New Jersey mob, dirty cops and his man-crazy upstairs neighbor after hi

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The Blue Zone

Andrew Gross · 352 pages

From the number one New York Times bestselling coauthor of Judge & Jury and Lifeguard comes this electrifying solo debut, The Blue Zone. Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family . . . until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Progra

Witness ProtectionOrganized Crime
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Gangsterland

Tod Goldberg · 425 pages

"Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea

Organized CrimeDark ComedyCrimeViolent
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The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5)

John Grisham · 76 pages

Organized CrimeWitness ProtectionCrimeViolent
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Gone

James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 415 pages

"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, an

Witness ProtectionOrganized CrimeViolent
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Gutshot Straight

Lou Berney · 294 pages

When ex-con Charles "Shake" Bouchon frees Gina Clement, a housewife he is supposed to deliver to a sleazy strip-club owner, he and Gina soon have the Armenian mob on their tail and they must flee to Panama while toting rare and valuable religious artifacts.

Dark ComedyOrganized CrimeCrimeFunny
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Gun Monkeys

Victor Gischler · 279 pages

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlfriend's garage. But he's a gun monkey, and no one can blame him for having an itchy trigger finger. Ever since he drove down the Florida Turnpike with a headless body in the trunk of a Chrysler, then took down four cops, Charlie's been running hard through the sprawling sleaze of central Florida. And

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Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino · 159 pages

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Moving Target

Cheyenne McCray · 352 pages

Ani King left her entire life behind when the Russian mafia brutally murdered her family. The Witness Security Program has kept her safe for two years, but with one simple phone call her cover is destroyed—and there is only one man left who can save her. Protecting the brave, beautiful Ani became more than just a job a long time ago for Deputy Marshal Daniel Parker. And now, just days before

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The Glorious Heresies

Lisa McInerney · 378 pages

One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father Tony, whose obsession with his unhinged next-door neighbour threatens to ruin him and his family. Georgie is a prostitute whose willingness to feign a religious conversion has dangerous repercussions,

Organized CrimeDark ComedyCrime
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Zero at the Bone

Jane Seville

"After witnessing a mob hit, surgeon Jack Francisco is put into protective custody to keep him safe until he can testify. A hitman known only as D is blackmailed into killing Jack, but when he tracks him down, his weary conscience won't allow him to murder an innocent man. Finding in each other an unlikely ally, Jack and D are soon on the run from shadowy enemies. Forced to work together to surviv

Witness ProtectionOrganized CrimeViolent
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Postal, Vol. 1

Bryan Hill, Matt Hawkins · 128 pages

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