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2001) The Defence
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turned out the two weren't that different. It's been over a year since Eddie vowed never to set foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn't have a choice. Olek Volchek, the infamous head of the Russian mafia in New York, has strapped a bomb to Eddie's back and kidnapped his ten-year-old daughter, Amy. Eddie only has forty-eight hours to defend Volchek in an impossible murder trial - and...
2002) 9 dragons
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger. Harry has stumbled into the middle of a kidnapping. His daughter is being held until her mother, Eleanor Wish, can win enough money in the poker rooms of nearby Macau to buy her back. Bosch drops everything to go to his...
Author
Series
Eliot Conte volume 02
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
""Dirty Harry of Literary Criticism" Frank Lentricchia launches book two of his new mystery series, featuring Eliot Conte, a PI who's "part Mike Hammer and part William S. Burroughs... an instant original," according to the Washington Post. Eliot Conte's story is pure noir, as he hunts for a local dog killer in ways that don't always adhere to the law. This novel features the hard diction and the fast pace of the best Italian-American crime fiction....
2008) Button men
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Morris, Sol, and Harry Rabishevsky grew up poor and rough on New York's Lower East Side, until the death of their father forced them to support the family. Morris, the youngest, but the most driven and pugnacious, apprentices himself at twelve to a garment manufacturer; bookish Sol drops out of accounting school; but Harry, scarred by a family tragedy, is lured under the wing of a charismatic crime figure. Morris rises through the factory until,...
Author
Series
Nik Pohl thriller volume 02
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Two missing children. Only Pohl can save the third. Two young children have been violently abducted in broad daylight, with nothing connecting them but their disappearance. Detective Nik Pohl knows there must be a missing link, but every time he gets close to the answer people show up hurt, or worse... The kidnappings must be connected. Could it be the recent property scandal that one young girl's father is embroiled in, or something even bigger?...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Some crimes are so sensational that they leap out of the annals of crime and into popular culture. From Jack the Ripper to Roswell to Lady Di, each episode in this series revisits a page of our shared history, meticulously decoding and deconstructing a sensationalist news item. Unjustly disdained by historians and generally left to the tabloid press, these stories reveal much about the societies that spawned them and the later generations that keep...
2012) Wolverine noir
Author
Series
Marvel comics volume Noir
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"The Bowery, 1937. Jim Logan, the fiercest knife expert in New York, runs a seedy detective agency called 'LOGAN & LOGAN' along with his useless, halfwit brother, Dog. They're the best they are at what they do. But when a swanky dame named Mariko Yashida struts into the office, she opens up a world of hurt for Logan, forcing him to revisit his painful, bloody past" -- from publisher's web site.
2016) The big ugly
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Neeyln (Vinnie Jones) has always been the loyal enforcer for crime boss Harris (Malcolm McDowell) back in London, taking care of problems and people that disrupt Harris's illicit business. When Harris strikes a deal with an old friend - American oilman Preston (Ron Perlman) - they find themselves in the wild hills of West Virginia. Overnight, Neelyn's girlfriend disappears, last seen with Preston's wayward son. Lines are drawn between family and friends,...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Blood on the sun: In Tokyo before World War II an American newspaper editor and a beautiful spy discover a Japanese plot for world domination.
He walked by night: The LAPD launches the biggest manhunt in its history, it's object a cunning psychopath.
Port of New York: Two narcotics agents infiltrate the crew of a gangster who uses his yacht club as a front.
D.O.A.: A vacationing accountant retraces the last twenty-four hours of his life to discover...
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