22 Best thriller books like Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

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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, …

"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"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)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

If you liked the thriller plot in Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Coronado: Stories

By: Dennis Lehane

3.39

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ce recueil comprend cinq nouvelles et une pièce intitulée Coronado, adaptation de la nouvelle Avant… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Coronado: Stories book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. Flashfire (Parker, #19)

By: Richard Stark , Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Flashfire (Parker, #19) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"This is crazy," he said. "You don't just shoot people." "Yes I do," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Flashfire (Parker, #19)

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3. The Wandering Hill (The Berrybender Narratives, #2)

By: Larry McMurtry

3.85

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

The Barnes & Noble Review The second novel in Larry McMurtry's spirited and lively Berrybender ser… read more

Similar categories in Larry McMurtry's The Wandering Hill (The Berrybender Narratives, #2) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • westerns
  • fiction
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4. Mean Business on North Ganson Street

By: S. Craig Zahler

3.87

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named … read more

Similar categories in S. Craig Zahler's Mean Business on North Ganson Street book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. The Drop

By: Dennis Lehane

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's The Drop book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Ella dijo: -Él...Le has disparado, joder. Acabas de... O sea, ¿te das cuenta? Bob pasó la fregona por la mancha. -Le dió una paliza a mi perro."

-Dennis Lehane, The Drop

"Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back."

-Dennis Lehane, The Drop

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6. Blonde Faith (Easy Rawlins #11)

By: Walter Mosley

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Easy Rawlins, L.A.'s most reluctant detective, comes home one day to find Easter, the daughter of h… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Blonde Faith (Easy Rawlins #11) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. 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

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Backflash (Parker, #18) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

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8. 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

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • westerns
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"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)

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9. The Seventh (Parker, #7)

By: Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Seventh (Parker, #7) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"

-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)

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10. Waylon: An Autobiography

By: Waylon Jennings , Lenny Kaye

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Waylon Jennings relates the story of his life as a country music star. His beginnings were poor but… read more

Similar categories in Waylon Jennings's Waylon: An Autobiography book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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11. Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

By: Richard Stark

4.41

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

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12. The Unforgiven

By: Alan LeMay

3.99

Format: 380 pages,

The Texas Panhandle was a harsh and unforgiving place, but the Zachary family managed to get by. Un… read more

Similar categories in Alan LeMay's The Unforgiven book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • westerns
  • fiction
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13. Slayground (Parker, #14)

By: Richard Stark

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Wheel of Fortune turned and Parker figured his number had finally come up. An armored car heist… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Slayground (Parker, #14) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
Cover of Comeback (Parker, #17) by Richard Stark

14. Comeback (Parker, #17)

By: Richard Stark

4.09

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A robbery of a Christian Crusade executed in the heat of the night comes off without a hitch, but i… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

"She was naked, and remained the only woman in Archibald's experience to overflow her birthday suit."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

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15. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

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16. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

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17. The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12)

By: Donald E. Westlake , Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Un… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Sour Lemon Score (Parker, #12) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime

18. Mucho Mojo (Hap and Leonard, #2)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.93

Format: 592 pages,

Inheriting one hundred thousand dollars and a small hiccup of a house in a dilapidated district is … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Mucho Mojo (Hap and Leonard, #2) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

19. Rusty Puppy (Hap and Leonard, #12)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hap and Leonard investigate a racially motivated murder that threatens to tear apart their East Tex… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Rusty Puppy (Hap and Leonard, #12) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

20. The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

TRAVIS McGEE He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knig… read more

Similar categories in John D. MacDonald's The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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21. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Mourner (Parker, #4) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

Cover of Plunder Squad (Parker, #15) by Richard Stark

22. Plunder Squad (Parker, #15)

By: Richard Stark

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder and dove… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Plunder Squad (Parker, #15) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

23. Bad Chili

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Bernard Blanc

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soyez blanc, sympa, hetero, sans vrai boulot ni caisse de retraite et vivez au Texas, royaume du po… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Bad Chili book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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24. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

25. Sin Killer (The Berrybender Narratives #1)

By: Larry McMurtry

2.83

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Larry McMurtry's Sin Killer (The Berrybender Narratives #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

26. Crazy Heart

By: Thomas Cobb

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At the age of fifty-seven, Bad Blake is on his last legs. His weight, his ticker, his liver, even h… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Cobb's Crazy Heart book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

Cover of Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) by Richard Stark

27. Deadly Edge (Parker, #13)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Deadly Edge bids a brutal adieu to the 1960s as Parker robs a rock concert, and the heist goes sout… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Deadly Edge (Parker, #13) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4) by Peter Leonard

28. Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4)

By: Peter Leonard

4.13

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County, Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal, Raylan Given… read more

Similar categories in Peter Leonard's Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15) by John Sandford

29. Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

By: John Sandford

4.36

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel … read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20) by Craig Johnson

30. First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

By: Craig Johnson

4.37

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of chara… read more

Similar categories in Craig Johnson's First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard #11) by Joe R. Lansdale

31. Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard #11)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.01

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Hap and Leonard, the unlikely detective duo now on screen in the highly praised series starrin… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard #11) book and Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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3.85

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