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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-043
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"Because old times there are not forgotten. On their summer off from college, three boys went to Mississippi to work for civil rights. They were never seen again. So the father of one of the boys hired New York private eye Joe Dunne. His assignment: Find the men responsible, and don't come home until they're dead."--Back cover.
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When he's not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately -- which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers' plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers' plan is insane -- so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn't a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable...
4) Binary
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"Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction--and federal agent John Graves has him under surveillance, trying to figure out what the plot is. When a government computer is hacked and a high-security shipment of nerve gas gets hijacked, Graves puts the pieces together--but can he stop Wright from unleashing his weapon before it kills a million people...including the President of the United States?"--Publisher.
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"Jailed for a joke. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this practical joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose..."...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-137
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What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make a room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. Returning to bookstores for the first time in three decades, Brothers Keepers offers not only a master...
7) Straight cut
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-021
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"A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy finds himself on a plane to Rome. But there are surprises waiting for him -- deadly surprises that will lead him on a desperate chase across Europe, into the hands of a pair of brutal drug smugglers, and back to New York City, where the greatest betrayal of all awaits..." --
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Hard Case Crime book volume 133
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"An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it's up to the woman who killed her to pick up the threads of her victim's life, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost--and the nightclub-singing femme fatale who drove them apart."--
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-111
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"In Rusty Santoro's neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks. Broken glass. And when they fight, they fight dirty, leaving the streets littered with the bodies of the injured and the dead. Rusty wants out - but you can't just walk away from a New York street gang. And his decision may leave his family to pay a terrible price"--Page 4 of cover.
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From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Road to Perdition" comes two related novellas collected in one volume for the first time. Includes all-new Afterword by the author. Original.
"They don't come tougher than Nolan--but even a hardened professional thief can't fight off teh entire Chicago mafia. So when an old friend offers to broker a truce, Nolan accepts the terms. All he has to do it pull off one last heist--and trust the Mob not to...
11) 361
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-009
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English
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"The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad. From the incomparable Donald E. Westlake ... comes a devastating story of betrayal and revenge, an exploration of the limits of family loyalty and how far a man will go when everything he loves is taken from him." --
12) Branded woman
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Titan Books
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2005.
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English
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"Internations jewelry smuggling may be a man's business, but beautiful Cay Morgan can hold her own with the best. Until the day a shadowy rival known only as The Trader has her abducted and scarred for life as a warning to saty out of his way. Now Cay's on her way to Mazatlan, where one of The Trader's men has been spotted. There's a big deal going down--but she's not there to make a score. Just to settle one." -- Page [4] of cover.
13) The Colorado Kid
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-013-1
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A novice newspaperwoman gains insight into the nature of mystery itself when her journalism mentors tell her about a 25-year-old unsolved investigation involving a man found dead on an island off the coast of Maine.
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead: no identification on the body. It's more than a year before the man is identified. Twenty-five years later, a local newspaperman and a graduate student in forensics learn about...
14) Dutch uncle
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-012
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Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
July 2005.
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English
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"Three days out of prison and trying to stay on the right side of the law, Harry Healy doesn't really want to get involved with Manfred Pfiser's drug deals. But he needs the money-- so he agrees to make one simple delivery. Simple, that is, till Harry stumbles across a dead body. It's the result of a robbery cooked up by one of his old celllmates, together with an over-the-hill high school baseball star, a trigger-happy sociopath, and a beach bunny...
15) Kiss her goodbye
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-008
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"When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don't pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope. But now Joe's got troubles of his own. His teenage daughter's found dead, an apparent suicide. Then the police arrest him for murder. But, for once, Joe's innocent-- and with help from Scotland's hardest men (and one of Scotland's hardest women), he sets out to find who's framed him and deliver his own brutal brand of justice."...
16) Bust
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Wealthy, successful New York City business owner Max Fisher finds himself in a delightfully familiar scenario: he wants to get rid of his nagging wife so he can shack up with his sexy secretary, Angela Petrakos. When Angela introduces Max to Dillon, a former IRA hit man, Max thinks he's found his man; what Max doesn't know is that Dillon is already Angela's man-and the two plan to double-cross Max as soon as it becomes profitable. Dillon, however,...
18) The last match
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-025
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English
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While working the French Riviera, a devilishly handsome con artist discovers that all bets are off when he meets his match in a stunning heiress, who, along with the police, pursues him around the world in hopes of reforming him.
19) The last quarry
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QUARRY'S BACK – FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER.
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?
And why in hell does he care?
On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's...
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?
And why in hell does he care?
On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's...
20) Night walker
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-016
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Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
January 2006.
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English
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"When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger's name. But his nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason -- and had driven his wife to murder. Now, in a shadow world of dirty deals and brutal crimes, David must learn to stay one step ahead of hidden enemies. If he can't, his impersonation of a dead man...