A riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole. Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, whosupplements his income with the occasional "odd job," like stealing live checks or picking up hot goods. Hisbrother's a priest, his wife'sa nag, and he has a deadlyappetite for martinis and gambling. On a trip to Vegas, the Diggerfinds himself in the sights of a loan sharkknown as the Greek. Luckily--if you call it luck--the Diggerhasbeen let in on a little job that can turnhis...
A riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole. Jerry "Digger" Doh...
From one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense laywers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm's underworld.
Jorge Barrio is a drug dealer who's in jail again after his accomplices flipped on him to save their own hides. Meticulously, he plots his revenge. Meanwhile, JW, a student working part time as a cab driver is having trouble keeping up appearances with the rich party crowd he so desperately wants to join. And Mrado--the muscle behind a Yugoslavian mob boss--who cracks fingers with one hand and strokes his daughter's cheek with the other, is growing tired of being the go-to...
From one of Sweden's most successful criminal defense laywers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm's underworld.
Imagine a man who does the most unspeakable things. Imagine the forgiveness he needs. Imgine the pain he gives. Imagine forgiving him. You will.
Kris, Tamara, Frauke, and Wolf are four friends who are drifting through their twenties, underemployed and unfulfilled. Sick of being treated badly at work, they decide to start a business of their own: Sorry, an agency that brings the human touch back to corporate life by offering to apologize to those who've been unjustly accused, unfairly dismissed and otherwise mistreated. The corporate clients are more than happy to...
Imagine a man who does the most unspeakable things. Imagine the forgiveness he needs. Imgine the pain he gives. Imagine forgiving him. ...
Intendent Munster, Inspector Van Veeteren's right-hand man, and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno take center stage in the latest shocking thriller in Hakan Nesser's internationally bestselling series. The final day of Waldemar Leverkuhn's life begins auspiciously: With three friends, he wins a modest sum in the lottery. But it ends, after a celebratory dinner, with him belligerent, drunk, and stumbling home to his bed, where he is brutally stabbed to death with a carving knife. The case seems to be going nowhere, until the reserved, weary widow confesses to the killing. When the...
Intendent Munster, Inspector Van Veeteren's right-hand man, and his beguiling colleague Ewa Moreno take center stage in the latest shocking thriller i...
In Little Green, Walter Mosley's acclaimed detective Easy Rawlins returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of that haven for Los Angeles hippies, the Sunset Strip. He's soon back in top form, cruising the gloriously psychedelic mean streets of L.A. with his murderous sidekick, Mouse. They've been hired to look for a young black man, Evander "Little Green" Noon, who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir called Gator's Blood, Easy experiences a physical, spiritual, and emotional resurrection, but peace and love soon give way to murder and...
In Little Green, Walter Mosley's acclaimed detective Easy Rawlins returns from the brink of death to investigate the dark side of that have...
With the same raw energy and verve he displayed in Easy Money, Jens Lapidus delivers an electrifying tale of Stockholm's vicious underworld.
Mahmud is fresh out of jail, but he's forced to work for a brutal mob boss to pay off his debts to a drug lord. Niklas, a mercenary and weapons expert with an appetite for vigilante justice, is back in Sweden and plans to keep a low profile. But the discovery of a murdered man in his mother's building severely threatens those plans. Thomas, the volatile detective on the case, finding his efforts suspiciously stymied and the evidence...
With the same raw energy and verve he displayed in Easy Money, Jens Lapidus delivers an electrifying tale of Stockholm's vicious underworld....
Dell, an ex-Legionnaire was working as a mercenary when he first saw Dolly, a nurse with Medecins Sans Frontieres. When they later married, Dell abandoned his work, and Dolly shed her identity. But not her calling--she became a teacher, confidant, and defender of dozens of teenagers in their Coastal Oregon village. When the star softball pitcher guns down a popular boy on the last day of school, Dolly knows this is no "school shooting." She goes all-in to protect "Mighty Mary" McCoy, even to the extent of unleashing her lethal husband.
As Dolly uses...
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Dell, an ex-Legionnaire was working as a mercenary when he first saw Dolly, a nurse with Medecins Sans Frontier...
As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now, he's a washout drunk, living alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert. Haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted"--an Afghan child running for her life--he reluctantly joins three journalists seeking to discover the identity of the anonymous, and possibly rogue, intelligence operative who called the shots in his last ill-fated mission. On the trail of this operative, Cole and his new allies will discover the dark heart of our surveillance culture, with connections to...
As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now, he's a washout drunk, living alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert....