5 must-read action books like The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) by Richard Stark

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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…

"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)

"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)

If you liked the action plot in The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) by Richard Stark , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Alla… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's The First Quarry (Quarry #8) book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have t…"

-Max Allan Collins, The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

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3. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Far Side of the Dollar

By: Ross Macdonald

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealth… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Far Side of the Dollar book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

7. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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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

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

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3) book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries. SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. P… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

(6th Title in the Dortmunder series) John Dortmunder's one of the slyest burglars going. But by God… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6) book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) by Lawrence Block

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

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In by Joe R. Lansdale, Andres Guinaldo

14. Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Andres Guinaldo

4.00

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

When a group of friends decided to spend a day at the world's largest Drive-In theater horror fest,… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Joe R. Lansdale's The Drive-In book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • fiction
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15. The Wycherly Woman

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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16. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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17. 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

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Mr Majestyk book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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18. 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 Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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)

20. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit - almost - as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Gree… 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

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

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 Busy Body

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more

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25. Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

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26. 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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27. 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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28. In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

3.79

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an a… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts."

-Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

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29. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. Charlesgate Confidential

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.10

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific" - Stephen KingA breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrativ… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"I’ve got the Halloween soundtrack here somewhere,"

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"It was all like a movie—hell, it was a whole damn film festival."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"His story was incredible—literally, in the sense that it was not credible."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"Jackie wasn’t just out of my league—we weren’t even playing the same sport."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

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31. Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of The Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII

By: Damien Lewis

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Br… read more

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  • audiobook

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Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.18

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The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Max Allan Collins

4.01

Transform Your Habits

361

Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

Donald E. Westlake

4.03

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Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

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The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Robert B. Parker

3.92

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Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

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Ross Macdonald

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