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Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground

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Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips · 432 pages

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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.

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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.

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Slayground

Richard Stark · 183 pages

A dark and memorable account of Parker trapped in a fenced-in amusement park that has closed for the winter.

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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.

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Flashfire

Richard Stark, Terry Teachout · 303 pages

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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.

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No Beast So Fierce

Edward Bunker · 301 pages

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Cold Shot to the Heart

Wallace Stroby · 289 pages

Crissa Stone is a career criminal. A complete pro, she never works too close to her New York City home, rarely signs on with the same crew, and never rushes a job. These are the rules that have kept her from getting caught, from doing time. They're the rules her mentor and lover taught her, rules he didn't follow as closely as he should've. Now he's up for parole, and Crissa needs to come up with

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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

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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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Shoedog

George P. Pelecanos · 240 pages

Constantine, a drifter, hitches a lift from a driver who stops en route to collect some money. But the man who owes it doesn't have it, so he enrolls the two of them in a plot to rob a liquor store. What follows is robbery, a doublecross and Constantine's vengeance.

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The Big Knockover and Other Stories

Dashiell Hammett · 414 pages

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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.

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Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1

Brian Azzarello · 256 pages

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The Name of The Game Is Death

Dan J. Marlowe · 137 pages

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Get Carter

Ted Lewis · 281 pages

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Pain Management

Andrew Vachss · 321 pages

Andrew Vachss's previous novel, Dead and Gone, prompted the Rocky Mountain News to say, "Starting a Vachss novel is like putting a vial of nitroglycerine into your pocket and going for a jog." With his latest thriller, Vachss turns the heat up a notch by dropping his career criminal and ultimate urban survivalist, Burke, in the middle of some of the most dangerously determined humans he has ever

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The Last Quarry

Max Allan Collins · 208 pages

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Kiss Me, Judas

Will Christopher Baer · 316 pages

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Spider-Man Noir

David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky · 292 pages

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Headstone

Ken Bruen · 269 pages

Galway private investigator Jack Taylor confronts an evil coterie named Headstone, who have committed a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway, Ireland.

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