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A wild, hard-boiled, pulp novel that will leave you breathless. Once the action start, it doesn't let up. Not a novel for the timid or the weakMark Mitchell is a playboy atomic scientist who marries the wrong woman, who betrays him in the worst possible way. He is quickly arrested, convicted of treason, and sentenced to life in prison. But that's only the beginning of his nightmare in this wild, insanely unpredictable, brutal Cold War noir thr...

The long-awaited return of Colt Harper, a lawman in the tradition of Jesse Stone and Walt Longmire. Sheriff Colt Harper believes he's colorblind in his enforcement of the law. But is he? When a black man is murdered, it ignites age-old anger in the African-American community over the injustices they've endured and forces Harper to confront his own personal demons. Harper's single-minded pursuit of justice for the dead man thrusts him between t...

A long-lost noir classic from an unknown master of the craft...a tragic, 1960s literary star hiding behind a pseudonymThe judge bangs his gavel. The murder trial is about to begin. The defendant, Charles Adams is so scared, his knees are shaking..but If he knew how dire his situation really is, he'd be screaming. The defendant's wife is wiggling with pleasure. She can't want to see her husband hang. The dead girl's parents are quaking with fur...

The long-awaited fifth novel in the action-packed Wyatt Storme series is here!Former NFL All-Pro Wyatt Storme and ex-CIA assassin Chick Easton are fishing on the Lake of the Ozarks when gunmen blow by them in a boat, chasing a determined woman seeking justice for her family. Wyatt and Chick save the woman and are swept into a violent battle for control of a new casino and all the riches and power it will bring. The Kansas City mob, the Dixie M...

A wickedly subversive, unpredictable and powerful hard-boiled masterpiece...lost for generations, now rediscovered. Soldier McQuade is a prizefighter in New York who goes back to his rural home when his widowed sister-in-law dies, leaving behind two kids. He's accompanied by Tennessee Bell, his other sister-in-law, who is on the run from a violent lover. But that simple, seemingly conventional starting point doesn't begin to do this story just...

Two Complete Novels of Women Facing Unrelenting Terror.... by "Sebastian Blayne, " the brilliant detective and Broadway playwrightHOLIDAY IN HELLSomeone wants Moira dead but each horrific attempt, each apparent "accident, " has failed so far...and cost others their lives. But she knows that soon her luck will run out...and that the killer, who might even be her own husband, will succeed. Moira's only hope is Sebastian "Neddy" Blayne...the flam...

An epic novel about one of the last of great cattle drives, a gripping story of men pitting their endurance and courage against the land, the animals, and each other.Foreman Adam Childress doesn't know how his men will face the relentless pressure of guiding 2700 longhorns from Texas to Montana, a treacherous, two-thousand mile trail criss-crossed with barbed wire fences and dotted with homesteads and land scarred more deeply by iron plows tha...

Two raw, hard-boiled novels featuring Vince Slader, an ex-cop turned PI, working the dark side of Hollywood. THE LONG NIGHTSlader is hired by a casino to hunt down a gambler with a $28, 000 tab in return for a percentage of the debt. It seems like a straight-forward job until Slader winds up framed for murder. As if that isn't bad enough, he becomes a target of hard-charging politicians and the West Coast mafia."An enjoyable 1950s crime-fictio...

Paul Cameron walks out of prison after a stint for assault...and heads straight to Paris to find a lost shipment of gold that was smuggled in by the U.S. during WWII to fund the resistance. From the instant he lands in France, he's plunged into a maelstrom of intrigue, violence, and murder. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Howard Hunt, who also wrote as "Robert Dietrich, " is best known for his role in the Watergate scandal rather than for his great crime no...

Pure Parnell Hall - wit, intensity, sharp dialog and vivid characters ... maybe his best yet." Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling authorA relentless, darkly-funny thriller by Parnell Hall, the New York Times bestselling author of the Puzzle Lady series. Two killers are leaving a trail of mutilated corpses across Manhattan... while hunting a mysterious man with a name so common, they may never run out of victims. They are pursued by a dis...

Didn't someone say that life in the early Middle Ages was 'nasty, brutish, and short'? That's a pretty good description of this book. Demaris was good." Bill Crider, award-winning writer of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes novels. Corrupt LAPD cop Vince Fusco crosses a big line when he executes a drug dealer for his drugs and his woman...but things get worse when he realizes there were witnesses. Now he's violently raging through the sordid alleys and b...

The first book in the hard-boiled, brutal Vince Slader PI series Vince Slader is an ex-cop-turned-PI who is hired by a casino to hunt down a gambler with a $28, 000 tab in return for a percentage of the debt. It seems like a straight-forward job until Slader winds up framed for murder. As if that isn't bad enough, he becomes a target of hard-charging politicians and the West Coast mafia."An enjoyable 1950s crime-fiction novel that retains most...

Two-fisted lawyer Johnny Maguire hasn't visited Chinatown in a long time and he isn't back now for the tourist attractions... not that The Chinese Keyhole strip club doesn't have plenty to offer. But is the lust, sadism, and brutality the front for a deadly spy ring? Johnny won't stop until he finds out...even if it means smashing his way through the mess of murder, mayhem, and lies that is the Chinese Keyhole, where hell is set to music.

ROOT OF EVILAn Edgar Award Winner for Best First NovelJim McCabe was just another ex-GI trying to scribble a living as a writer in Hollywood until he discovers a chest of century-old gold coins buried in his backyard...and decides to keep it, smuggle the coins to Europe, and sell them for a fortune. But there are plenty of people who want to take his treasure from him and are willing to kill the people he loves to do it in this chilling tale o...

The Year - 1959. The place - Inside Russia. The Plot - Kill the Red Dictator.A covert, American agency known as "Bureau X" gives U.S. Naval Intelligence agent Alexis Bodine a new face, a new identity, and a suicide mission -- infiltrate the Soviet government as a spy, work his way up to Stalin, and assassinate him before World War III begins.At the time this controversial novel was published in 1951, I KILLED STALIN was a daring, "near future"...

An engaging, thoroughly enjoyable literary work. Daniels pulls no punches - this is a violent crime yarn from cover-to-cover." The Paperback Warrior World War II veteran Jeff Castle is living a quiet life as a big game hunter in Africa...until he's called to the bedside of his dying, estranged grandfather in New York, where he learns that he's the sole heir to the man's business: sixty hotels throughout the state. Castle barely has a chance to...

Hard-charging true crime writer Garner Quinn, a character the San Francisco Chronicle calls "irrespressible and hard to resist, " returns in her third thrilling adventure. An obsessed fan is sending threatening letters to Quinn at her remote, New Jersey shore estate, where she lives with her daughter and elderly housekeeper, and stalking her movements. Quinn hires security expert Reed Corbin to protect her and ferret out the identity of the in...

Murderous yuppies willing to kill for restorable buildings? Who'd believe it? Tough, persevering, Hoboken detective Hunter Murtaugh would." The Anniston Star It's 1987. Young Manhattan professionals with big bank accounts are gentrifying old, waterfront Hoboken for their new homes, forcing the locals out, literally and financially. So when two old women are killed in their apartments, freeing up their real estate, hard-drinking Hoboken detecti...

A tense, psychological novel of suspense, written in a brittle, sophisticated manner that will keep the reader in a state of fascination." Pensacola News-Journal Sebastian "Neddy" Blayne is a flamboyant, wealthy, pampered bon vivant... famous playwright, author and a brilliant detective. Blayne is equal parts Nero Wolfe, Simon Templar and Hercule Poirot...and he is aided in his adventures by his bald, Italian valet Beppo, his red-headed secre...

Rumpled, ploddingly brilliant LAPD homicide detective Lou Baroni is a widower hoping to get promoted to sergeant before his looming retirement. But Baroni's hopes are constantly thwarted by his venal, unappreciative boss and sabotaged by his ambitious young partner. They want Baroni to spend his final days investigating a recent murder that could lead to the headline-making arrest of an underworld kingpin. The problem is, Baroni is obsessed wi...