Books like 'Batman (2011-2016) #44'
Readers who enjoyed Batman (2011-2016) #44 by Scott Snyder & Brian Azzarello also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Deadlock by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader...Categorized as:
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![Zero Hour by Mark Walden]()
Zero Hour by Mark Walden
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOverlord is reborn, and has developed the chilling ability to move from body to body, erasing the host's personality and ultimately killing them, forcing him to hop from victim to victim. He must find Otto, the only host designed to contain him, and for that he needs the location of H.I.V.E...Categorized as:
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![সাবাস প্রোফেসর শঙ্কু by Satyajit Ray]()
সাবাস প্রোফেসর শঙ্কু by Satyajit Ray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsপ্রফেসর শঙ্কু সিরিজের তৃতীয় এই বইটিতে রয়েছে ৫টি গল্প -১. আশ্চর্য প্রাণী (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় সন্দেশ পত্রিকার ১৯৭১ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)২.স্বপ্নদ্বীপ (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় সন্দেশ পত্রিকার ১৯৭১ সনের মে-জুন সংখ্যায়)২.মরু রহস্য (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় সন্দেশ পত্রিকার ১৯৭২ সনের মে-জুন সংখ্যায়)৪. কর্ভাস (প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় সন্দেশ পত্রিকার ১৯৭২ সনের শারদীয় সংখ্যায়)৫... -
![The Villain Virus by Michael Buckley]()
The Villain Virus by Michael Buckley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe NERDS series combines the excitement of international espionage with the awkwardness of elementary school as it follows the adventures of a group of unpopular fifth graders who run a spy network from inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, they transform their nerdy qualities into incredible abilities, and the results are awesome, inspiring—and hilarious...Categorized as:
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![Attack of the BULLIES by Michael Buckley]()
Attack of the BULLIES by Michael Buckley
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe grand finale to the New York Times bestselling series, Attack of the BULLIES stars Ruby Peet, aka Agent Pufferfish, the team captain with super nanobyte-enhanced allergies. Pufferfish leads the team in their latest case: the kidnapping of the president’s daughter. But the NERDS discover she hasn’t been kidnapped—she’s been recruited. Their former librarian, Ms...Categorized as:
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Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLos Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery... -
![M Is for Mama's Boy by Michael Buckley, Johnny Heller]()
M Is for Mama's Boy by Michael Buckley, Johnny Heller
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe excitement of international espionage combined with the awkwardness of elementary makes for non-stop laughs in NERDS, the hilarious series from New York Times bestselling author Michael Buckley! The last time we met the NERDS, a team of superspies operating out of their school basement, they were using their high-tech abilities to stop an evil genius from destroying the world...Categorized as:
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![The Ballad of Bad Jack by Anthony Ryan]()
The Ballad of Bad Jack by Anthony Ryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Asteroid Belt, home to mining corporations and those who prefer to live beyond the heavily policed habitats of Earth orbit - the perfect hunting ground for Bad Jack, captain of the Dead Reckoning and the most feared pirate in the solar system... -
![The Immortal Gene by Jonas Saul]()
The Immortal Gene by Jonas Saul
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Saul knows how to ratchet up the tension and keep the pages turning." ~ Publishers Weekly PLAYING GOD HAS CONSEQUENCES Jake Wood has it made. He is a tough homicide detective with a partner who's like a brother, and he's about to marry the girl of his dreams.Then Jake learns a close friend is missing and travels to South America in search of him...Categorized as:
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Paloma by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a Retrieval Artist, Miles Flint helps the Disappeared, saving the lives of those oppressed under the Earth Alliance regime. He owes his livelihood, and his very sense of honor, to a woman known as Paloma. It was she who was responsible for setting him on this path—and now she has been murdered.Summoned by Paloma’s desperate call, Miles reaches her apartment too late... -
![Spell Robbers by Matthew J. Kirby, Dan Bittner]()
Spell Robbers by Matthew J. Kirby, Dan Bittner
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA magical crime saga filled with marvelous thrills and extraordinary adventure, from critically acclaimed author Matthew J. Kirby.After Ben Warner is recruited to join a "science camp" led by the eccentric quantum physicist Dr. Madeleine Hughes, he quickly realizes it's no regular science camp...Categorized as:
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![Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto]()
Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, performed by Zachary Quinto.The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called "dispatchers," who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance... -
![Duplicate Effort by Kristine Kathryn Rusch]()
Duplicate Effort by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRetrieval Artist Miles Flint is on a personal mission—to bring down the corrupt law firm of Wagner, Stuart, and Xendor. Then a journalist working with him is found dead—murdered, along with the bodyguard she had hired to protect her. And Miles may be next.But before he can begin to investigate the death, he has a more personal crisis to deal with—his daughter Talia is missing... -
![Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis]()
Mad Powers by Mark Wayne McGinnis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRob Chandler, regaining consciousness, realizes he's somehow been involved in a horrendous car accident. In pain and unable to move, he has no memory of his identity, or how the hell he'd gotten on that deserted desert road in the middle of nowhere. He has little time to contemplate his situation when he sees an 18-wheeler barreling down on him... -
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![A Song for Madame Choi by Anthony Ryan]()
A Song for Madame Choi by Anthony Ryan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the Slab. A vast orbiting slum where rats grow big and sweat falls in rain. In the sequel to Slab City Blues, an old enemy embroils recently widowed Inspector Alex McLeod in the hunt for a kidnapped girl. With no leads he finds himself reluctantly seeking help from drug dealer and fellow war veteran Madame Choi... -
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The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the Bubble, where orphans are used for spare parts, and transplanting organs is like changing a pair of socks.They harvested Daniel’s body when he was a child, leaving him with cheap cybernetic replacements. Now that he's grown, his body is failing. The gears in his knee grind, his synthetic cornea weeps, and his 3D-printed lungs spasm in winter.Daniel needs the organs he was born with... -
![Shadow of a Broken Man by George C. Chesbro]()
Shadow of a Broken Man by George C. Chesbro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet Dr. Robert Frederickson, or "Mongo" to his friends. He's a former circus tumbler, black belt in karate, doctor of Criminology, and professor at a New York City university. And he's quite an unusual fellow as well, not only because he's a private investigator but also because he's a dwarf.. -
![Truth by Robin Wasserman]()
Truth by Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome things are too painful to remember--and too deadly to forget.Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.Lost: Everything.J.D. can't run from her past any longer. She knows the truth now: that she's dangerous, a weapon. If she can't learn to control her powers, there's no telling what...or who...she'll destroy next...Categorized as:
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![Unforgotten by Jessica Brody]()
Unforgotten by Jessica Brody
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSome memories are better left forgotten... After a daring escape from the scientists at Diotech who created her, Seraphina believes she is finally safe from the horrors of her past. But new threats await Sera and her boyfriend, Zen, at every turn as Zen falls prey to a mysterious illness and Sera’s extraordinary abilities make it more and more difficult to stay hidden...Categorized as:
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![Trex by Christyne Morrell]()
Trex by Christyne Morrell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis middle-grade mystery follows the adventures of a boy with an experimental brain implant, and a reclusive girl training to be a spy, as they′re pitted against school bullies, their own parents, and an evil, brain-hacking corporation. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things.Trex’s experimental brain implant saved his life—but it also made his life a lot harder. Now he shocks everything he touches...Categorized as:
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![Neat by Russell Zimmerman]()
Neat by Russell Zimmerman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Meanest StreetsJames Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has...Categorized as:
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![KOP Killer by Warren Hammond]()
KOP Killer by Warren Hammond
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKOP Killer, a darkly dystopian science fiction thriller from Warren HammondJuno Mozambe once had a life. That was when he was a dirty cop, married to a woman who suffered such profound abuse that she murdered her vile, drug kingpin father. Juno loved his wife and did his best to help her survive her guilt, her drug habit, and her desire to end her life on the dead-end planet of Lagarto... -
![Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson]()
Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsused science fiction... -
![Earth Vs. Everybody by John Swartzwelder]()
Earth Vs. Everybody by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the writer of 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
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![Prime Suspects: A Clone Detective Mystery by Jim Bernheimer]()
Prime Suspects: A Clone Detective Mystery by Jim Bernheimer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUpon waking up in a new city on a different planet, homicide detective David Bagini discovers that he is in fact the forty-second clone of David Bagini. He's been created to solve a murder ... specifically the murder of his prime. Standing in the way is the clues point directly at the other Bagini clones and they already know all his tricks... -
![Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood]()
Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPart mystery, part speculative fiction, and wholly unforgettable, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s celebrated Arabesk series portrays the dark, hard-boiled story of a man out to prove his innocence in an alternate world where the facts aren’t always the same as the truth . . . and murder isn’t the worst that can happen...Categorized as:
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![Liquid Cool: The Cyberpunk Detective Series by Austin Dragon]()
Liquid Cool: The Cyberpunk Detective Series by Austin Dragon
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLiquid Cool is the debut cyberpunk detective series!It’s cyberpunk re-imagined—science fiction meets the detective thriller in an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers. Hover-cars fly above in the dark, bustling skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, flashy streets of this “neon jungle.” Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either... -
![Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAntofagasta, Chile...Rae Stanley was in trouble... -
![Strictly Analog by Richard Levesque]()
Strictly Analog by Richard Levesque
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternative cover edition for 9781478354420Ted Lomax does his best to get by as a private detective in a society where almost nothing is private any more. He lives in a near-future California that has gained independence from the economically collapsed United States and where everyone is constantly linked into the web. Almost everyone... -
![Killing Is My Business by Adam Christopher]()
Killing Is My Business by Adam Christopher
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA blend of science fiction and stylish mystery noir featuring a robot detective: the stand alone sequel to Made to KillAnother golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape for intrepid PI-turned-hitman--and last robot left in working order-- Raymond Electromatic... -
![Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO IS DOC SAVAGE?To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers - the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group - he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers... -
![The Desert Demons by Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray]()
The Desert Demons by Kenneth Robeson, Will Murray
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBack after 20 years! Doc Savage and his mighty crew return in a brand-new series of nightmare exploits that can only be called…. The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage!Ferocious blood-red Things begin dropping down from the sky, the state of California is besieged by the Desert Demons—a phenomenon so fierce that it triggers a modern exodus...Categorized as:
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![The Doomsday Box: A Shadow Project Adventure by Herbie Brennan]()
The Doomsday Box: A Shadow Project Adventure by Herbie Brennan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the CIA created a program to research time travel in the 1940s, they never imagined it could lead to a global pandemic decades later...Categorized as:
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![La sirène rouge by Maurice G. Dantec]()
La sirène rouge by Maurice G. Dantec
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElle a douze ans, une mère meurtrière et une armée de mercenaires sur les talons. Il a trente ans, l'habitude de tuer et pas grand-chose à perdre. Ensemble, ils vont traverser l'Europe, d'Amsterdam à Porto. Le genre de voyage où les cadavres servent de bornes kilométriques... -
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![The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson]()
The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA vile greenish vapor was all that remained of the first victim of the monstrous Smoke of Eternity. There would be thousands more if Kar, master fiend, had his evil way. Only Doc Savage and his mighty five could stop him. But the corpse-laden trail led to mortal combat with the fiercest killing machines ever invented by nature...Categorized as:
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![Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson]()
Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeath comes from both above and below, as the Pacific Northwest is shaken by earthquakes while strange floating figures fill the sky striking terror with their deadly dirge... -
![Sins of the Father by Christa Faust]()
Sins of the Father by Christa Faust
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNever-before-revealed secrets of the characters, leading to the creation of the government’s covert Fringe Division. In 2008, Peter Bishop is estranged from his father and running shady operations in Southeast Asia. His latest scam lands him in a life-or-death situation involving weird events beyond the ken of modern science...Categorized as:
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![Standard Hollywood Depravity by Adam Christopher]()
Standard Hollywood Depravity by Adam Christopher
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.Honey.As the band shook the hair out of their British faces, stomping and strumming, the go-go dancer’s cage swung, and the events of that otherwise average night were set in motion... -
![Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn]()
Night Train to Rigel by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHUMANITY'S LAST HOPEIt begins when a man delivers a message for former government agent Frank Compton--only to fall dead at his feet. The message is a summons from the Spiders, the exotic and mysterious creatures who run the Quadrail, an incredible transportation system connecting civilizations across the galaxy... -
![Midnight, Water City by Chris McKinney]()
Midnight, Water City by Chris McKinney
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her.Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki... -
![The Steel Spring by Per Wahlöö]()
The Steel Spring by Per Wahlöö
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChief Inspector Jensen is a policeman in an unnamed European country where the government has criminalized being drunk, where newspapers are designed for reassurance, and where the city centers have been demolished to devote more space to gleaming new highways... -
![A Matter of Time by Glen Cook]()
A Matter of Time by Glen Cook
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMay 1975. St. Louis. In a snow-swept street, a cop finds the body of a man who died fifty years ago. It's still warm. July 1866, Lidice, Bohemia: A teenage girl calmly watches her parents die as another being takes control of her body. August 2058, Prague: Three political rebels flee in to the past, taking with them a terrible secret... -
![Doctor Who: Corpse Marker: The Monster Collection Edition by Chris Boucher]()
Doctor Who: Corpse Marker: The Monster Collection Edition by Chris Boucher
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Doctor and Leela arrive on the planet Kaldor, where they find a society dependent on benign and obedient robots. But they have faced these robots before, on a huge Sandminer in the Kaldor desert, and know they are not always harmless servants… The only other people who know the truth are the three survivors from that Sandminer – and now they are being picked off one by one... -
![No Escape by Michelle Gagnon]()
No Escape by Michelle Gagnon
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGritty and heart-stopping, this short story from break-out author Michelle Gagnon also features a teaser to her thrilling debut young-adult novel, Don't Turn Around.Seventeen-year-old Alex might be living day-to-day on whatever he can steal, but he still prefers being on the run to getting caught and thrown back in juvie. Plus, he has Jenny to think of... -
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![The Golden Gizmo by Jim Thompson]()
The Golden Gizmo by Jim Thompson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsToddy Kent was born with a "gizmo" in his head--talent for finding easy money--but when Toddy's gift deserts him and he finds his wife murdered, he goes on the run from a sinister man and his hymn-singing... -
![Because the Night by James Ellroy]()
Because the Night by James Ellroy
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information–no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion--a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A... -
![Uncubicled Part 1 by Josh McMains]()
Uncubicled Part 1 by Josh McMains
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFirst half of the original, higher-priced novel.**Warning: reading this book may endanger your co-workers.**Joe Tompkins was having a bad day at the office: boring meetings, pointless assignments, and this feeling that he was being watched. When he could take no more, he did what anyone would do. He knocked out a co-worker with a keyboard and escaped... -
![KOP by Warren Hammond]()
KOP by Warren Hammond
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsJuno is a dirty cop with a difficult past and an uncertain future. When his family and thousands of others emigrated to the colony world of Lagarto, they were promised a bright future on a planet with a booming economy. But before the colonists arrived, everything changed... -
![The Dewey Decimal System by Nathan Larson]()
The Dewey Decimal System by Nathan Larson
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a flu pandemic, a large-scale terrorist attack, and the total collapse of Wall Street, New York City is reduced to a shadow of its former self... -
![TekWar by William Shatner, Ron Goulart]()
TekWar by William Shatner, Ron Goulart
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTekWar is the story of ex-cop Jake Cardigan, who's framed for dealing an addictive brain stimulant called Tek and sentenced to fifteen years of suspended animation. Now, mysteriously released after four years in the "Freezer," Cardigan is on the loose...and out for justice...
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