11 Top noir books like Line of Fire by Donald Hamilton

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Line of Fire

By: Donald Hamilton

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An assassin gets caught up in a botched kill when a young woman stumbles onto the scene. He tries t…

If you liked the noir plot in Line of Fire by Donald Hamilton , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Cockfighter

By: Charles Willeford

4.13

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary m… read more

Similar categories in Charles Willeford's Cockfighter book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • crime
  • noir
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2. I Wake Up Screaming

By: Steve Fisher

3.56

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the… read more

Similar categories in Steve Fisher's I Wake Up Screaming book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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3. The Third Man

By: Graham Greene

3.79

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Rollo Martins' usual line is the writing of cheap paperback Westerns under the name of Buck Dexter.… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
"I loved a man," she said. "I told you—a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man."

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

"Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan—it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth."

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

"For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew."

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

"tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas …"

-Graham Greene, The Third Man

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4. Nightfall

By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning… read more

Similar categories in Bill Pronzini's Nightfall book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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5. A Ticket to Hell

By: Harry Whittington

3.92

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A Novel. Whittington does the best sheer story-telling since the greatest days of the detective pul… read more

Similar categories in Harry Whittington's A Ticket to Hell book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • crime
  • noir
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6. The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)

By: Richard Stark

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11) book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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7. A Swell-Looking Babe

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

It was supposed to be only a temporary job--something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his fe… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
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8. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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9. The Feast of the Goat

By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman

4.33

Format: 475 pages, Paperback

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more

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"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"

-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat

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10. Sleep with the Devil

By: Day Keene

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Ferron was big, tough and ruthless--he'd break your arm as soon as look at you. He had the morals o… read more

Similar categories in Day Keene's Sleep with the Devil book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • crime
  • noir
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11. Something About a Soldier

By: Charles Willeford

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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12. The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30)

By: Gil Brewer

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Similar categories in Gil Brewer's The Vengeful Virgin (Hard Case Crime #30) book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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13. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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14. Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Hombre book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • crime

15. Trouble Is My Business

By: Raymond Chandler

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold… read more

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16. 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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17. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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18. The Complete Stories

By: Flannery O'Connor

5.00

Format: 144 pages,

The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental cont… read more

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19. The Hot Spot

By: Charles Williams

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasn't all … read more

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20. Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Westlake pens another comedy caper of seven men who have the perfect alibi--they are in jail. The c… read more

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21. Ride the Pink Horse

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, hi… read more

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22. The Death and Life of Bobby Z

By: Don Winslow

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). When Tim Kearney, a small-time c… read more

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23. I Married a Dead Man

By: Cornell Woolrich

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pregnant, abandoned by her slimy husband and destitute, Helen Georgesson boards a train going west.… read more

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24. Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

By: Ian Fleming

3.74

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes bac… read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • thriller
  • crime
"Mine’s Bond – James Bond."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

"Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment."

-Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)

25. Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6)

By: Michael Connelly

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When B-grade L.A. movie producer Tony Aliso is found stuffed into the trunk of his Rolls Royce, all… read more

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26. Vengeance Is Mine (Mike Hammer, #3)

By: Mickey Spillane

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

He was a nice guy. Now he's dead. That's all Hammer knows about the stiff in the hotel room. But th… read more

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27. Beast In View

By: Margaret Millar

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A psychological thriller by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form and 1956 winner of the Ed… read more

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28. The Brass Cupcake

By: John D. MacDonald

4.64

Format: 272 pages,

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29. The Long Saturday Night

By: Charles Williams

3.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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30. Journey Into Terror

By: Peter Rabe

3.67

Format: 159 pages, Mass Market Paperback

He had sworn to get them-the killers, the hoods who had shot down his girl. read more

Similar categories in Peter Rabe's Journey Into Terror book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • crime
Cover of Line of Fire by Donald Hamilton

31. Line of Fire

By: Donald Hamilton

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An assassin gets caught up in a botched kill when a young woman stumbles onto the scene. He tries t… read more

Similar categories in Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire book and Donald Hamilton's Line of Fire

  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir

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Charles Willeford

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Steve Fisher

3.56

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3.79

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Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

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Ian Fleming , Anthony Horowitz

3.78

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Raymond Chandler

3.95

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Len Deighton

3.93

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3.94

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