Backflash (Parker, #18)
By: Richard Stark
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The shirtsleeved bald bartender was tall and fat, looking like a retired cop who'd gone to seed the day his papers had come through. At the bar, muttering together about sports and politics—other people's victories and defeats—were nine or ten shabbily dressed guys who were older than their teeth."-Richard Stark, Backflash (Parker, #18)
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1. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter
By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark
4.18
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by leg… read more
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2. Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.03
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
- After a year on the lam, the return of bumbling thief Dortmunder is a cause celebre. The author's… read more
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3. Hit List (Keller, #2)
By: Lawrence Block
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury du… read more
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4. Backflash (Parker, #18)
By: Richard Stark
4.10
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the… read more
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- mystery thriller
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- mystery
- action
- crime
"The shirtsleeved bald bartender was tall and fat, looking like a retired cop who'd gone to seed the day his papers had come through. At the bar, muttering together about sports and politics—other peo…"-Richard Stark, Backflash (Parker, #18)
5. Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)
By: Lawrence Block
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prost… read more
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6. Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder, #14)
By: Lawrence Block
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up… read more
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8. All the Flowers Are Dying (Matthew Scudder, #16)
By: Lawrence Block
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
"A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three hideous murders he swears, in the face of ir… read more
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9. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
By: Elmore Leonard
4.00
Format: 240 pages, ebook
Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more
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"I want you to understand,"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)
10. The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3)
By: Richard Stark
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, offers the third Alan Grofield novel of suspense. Gro… read more
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11. Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's… read more
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12. Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
As Chandler's last novel opens, Philip Marlowe meets a well-endowed redhead as she disembarks from … read more
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13. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
By: Lawrence Block
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more
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14. Mr Majestyk
By: Elmore Leonard
3.90
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Once, Vincent Majestyk crashed through a jungle with an M-15 and a sack of grenades. Now he works u… read more
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15. Hit Man (Keller, #1)
By: Lawrence Block
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates hits and… read more
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16. Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7)
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.14
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from bl… read more
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17. Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)
By: John D. MacDonald
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
A great bestseller starring Travis McGee, a real American hero--and maybe the star of a new movie f… read more
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18. Even the Wicked (Matthew Scudder #13)
By: Lawrence Block
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An anonymous letter writer, the self-styled 'Will of the People', targets prominent criminals and e… read more
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19. The Switch
By: Elmore Leonard
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
"My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they shar… read more
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20. Quarry's Deal (Quarry, #3)
By: Max Allan Collins
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
BEHIND THE DOORS OF AN ILLEGAL CASINO, WILL QUARRY FIND LADY LUCK...OR A LADY KILLER? Putting his p… read more
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21. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.03
Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more
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22. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)
By: Jack Clark
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more
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23. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more
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24. The Road To Ruin (Dortmunder, #11)
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Ever-lovable but hapless crook John Dortmunder and his merry band of misfits attempt to drive off w… read more
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25. The Busy Body
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more
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26. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
By: George V. Higgins
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more
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27. Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44)
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.86
Format: 144 pages,
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28. 52 Pick Up
By: Elmore Leonard
3.69
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell is a self-made man, happily married for over twenty-two years an… read more
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29. Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4)
By: Donald E. Westlake
4.10
Format: None pages,
The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and its owner, the rich and careless … read more
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30. Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3)
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.00
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Here's the five-member Dortmunder Gang trying to achieve the perfect crime by following a paperback… read more
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31. Lowdown Road
By: Scott Von Doviak
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more
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