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Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinance isn't Nick Waite’s strong suit as a detective, but he’s learning fast as he investigates the cover-up of a murder inside Neo Babylon’s oldest bank. The winds of conspiracy whirl around him, and everyone from the police commissioner to gang lords warn him to step back.Taking the easy way out isn’t in his nature, however... -
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Romeo's Rules by James Scott Bell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIf you want to stay alive, you better know the rules . . . Natalia Mayne said, “What's the first rule?” “Fear nothing,” I said. “You have any more?” “Do unto them before they do unto you.” “Really?” ”And you don’t owe the truth to people who lie." “I’ve never met anybody like you.” “I’ve heard that before.” Mike Romeo is an ex-cage fighter living off the grid in Los Angeles... -
![A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell]()
A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe rugged team of Modesty Blaise and her loyal lieutenant, Willie Garvin, take on impossible odds as they battle Simon Delicta, a man with a taste for death, and Swordmaster Wenczel in a duel to the death. As the adventure unfolds, and they travel from London to Panama to the depths of the Sahara desert, the pair will need all their killing skills to survive... -
![The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald]()
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTravis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart... -
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![The Gentleman's Hour by Don Winslow]()
The Gentleman's Hour by Don Winslow
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBoone Daniels, the most laid-back of private investigators, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific Beach, California as per usual. There's no surf to speak of, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force anyway...it's what they do... -
![The Deep Six by Randy Striker, Randy Wayne White]()
The Deep Six by Randy Striker, Randy Wayne White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a well-known eccentric scavenger in Key West shows Dusky MacMorgan a golden chain, it's no ordinary trinket-it's the key to finding a treasure at the bottom of the sea. Before MacMorgan can find out where that is, the eccentric vanishes off his boat, the apparent victim of a shark attack. But MacMorgan suspects the true killer walked on two legs... -
![The Killing by Lionel White]()
The Killing by Lionel White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a fool-proof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. The two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnny do the work, then she'll grab the swag for herself and her boyfriend... -
![Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie]()
Skull Island by Will Murray, Michael McConnohie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen King Kong famously fell from his death perch on the summit of the Empire State Building early in 1933, the question on many moviegoers' minds was: Where the heck was Doc Savage? For the tallest skyscraper in Manhattan was also the world headquarters of the famous superman-scientist known as the Man of Bronze... -
![Rapture: The Big Daddy by Dustin Brubaker]()
Rapture: The Big Daddy by Dustin Brubaker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArthur Winter, his wife and daughter move to Rapture with the promise of a better life and more importantly a new start. He intends to work hard and one day be wealthy just like Ryan promises everyone who moves to Rapture. He opens a small business. For a few years things are good, almost idyllic. The good life is shattered when one day his daughter mysteriously vanishes without trace... -
![Smoke and Mirrors by Steve Marshall]()
Smoke and Mirrors by Steve Marshall
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen you can’t call the cops… Call Trunk Dennis Trunk has a reputation for figuring things out and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty. Trunk won’t kill, unless he has to. Between one and two percent of the population are psychopaths. Trunk is highly functional. He has a steady job, an ex-wife, and a plan to kill her boyfriend... -
![Forests of the Night by S. Andrew Swann]()
Forests of the Night by S. Andrew Swann
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in Cleveland 100 years in the future, this debut novel is the story of Nohar Rajasthan, Private Eye, who's a moreau--descended from genetically manipulated tiger stock. When Nohar is hired by a being illegally created from human stock to look into a murder, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy of awesome proportions... -
![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... -
![68 Kill by Bryan Smith]()
68 Kill by Bryan Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt started with a couple of dead bodies and $68,000 in stolen cash. Chip Taylor’s girlfriend Liza had the perfect plan to rip off her rich sugar daddy. It should have been an easy in and out kind of deal. Nobody would get hurt and they would come out of it with enough loot to solve their problems... -
![The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont]()
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men?Take a journey back to the desperate days of America post the Great Depression, when the country turned to the pulp novels for relief, for hope and for heroes. Meet Walter Gibson, the mind behind The Shadow, and Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage, as they challenge one another to discover what is real and what is pulp...Categorized as:
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![The Traveling Man by Michael P. King]()
The Traveling Man by Michael P. King
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeception. Betrayal. Retribution. Married con artists, using the aliases Tom and Patty Brown, arrive in the small city of Seanboro with their partner, Buddy Ray, masquerading as land speculators. Their plan is to falsify the environmental reports on a contaminated tract of lakefront property and sell the land to a local gangster who is involved in real estate development... -
![Command Strike by Don Pendleton]()
Command Strike by Don Pendleton
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMission Unthinkable. . .Long live the king, the king is dead. Augie Marinello, Boss of All the Bosses, has paid the final tab to the Executioner. But from the ashes of Augies defeat is rising a new and stronger syndicate - better than ever. The big "if" seems to be David Eritrea, formly chief advisor to the dead king, now heir presumptive to the Marinello throne... -
![Kill Or Cure (The Destroyer) by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir]()
Kill Or Cure (The Destroyer) by Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA plot designed by the United States' top-secret agency, CURE, to dispose of a certain corrupt politician, is revealed in what unravels into a national scandal. The agency must be dismantled before greater suspicions arise and one of the top leaders, The Destroyer, is finally destroyed himself... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Mean Business on North Ganson Street by S. Craig Zahler]()
Mean Business on North Ganson Street by S. Craig Zahler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named Jules Bettinger. Because of this incident, the unkind (but decorated) policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from Arizona to the frigid north, where he will work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri... -
![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... -
![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... -
![Grave Descend by John Lange]()
Grave Descend by John Lange
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSOMETHING’S GOING DOWN OFF THE COAST OF JAMAICA Diver James McGregor is used to being hired to explore sunken ships. But there’s something strange about the wreck of the luxury yacht Grave Descend. No one who was aboard tells quite the same story about what happened... -
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![The Rip-Off by Jim Thompson]()
The Rip-Off by Jim Thompson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn his characteristic style, Jim Thompson creates a world in which nothing is as it seems. With her stunning beauty and overwhelming charm, Manuela Aloe seemed like perfect girlfriend material, but when many strange things occur, Britt Rainstar begins to have second thoughts about his angelic--or demonic--love... -
![The Venom Business by John Lange, Michael Crichton]()
The Venom Business by John Lange, Michael Crichton
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs an expert handler of venomous snakes - and a smuggler of rare artifacts - Charles Raynaud is accustomed to danger. So the job bodyguarding an old acquaintance about to come into a fortune shouldn't make him break a sweat.But when the attempts on the man's life nearly get Raynaud killed, he's left wondering: is he the killers' real target.. -
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The Dead Man's Brother by Roger Zelazny
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE CORPSE UNDER THE CHAGALL Once an art smuggler, now a respectable art dealer, Ovid Wiley awoke to find his former partner stabbed to death on his gallery floor. That was strange enough – but when a CIA agent showed up to spring him from NYPD custody, things got a lot stranger... -
![Zero Cool by John Lange, Michael Crichton]()
Zero Cool by John Lange, Michael Crichton
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhile vacationing in Spain, a young doctor finds himself embroiled in a deadly conflict between rival gangsPeter Ross just wanted a vacation. After years toiling in the radiology department of a large American hospital, he dreams of lying on a Spanish beach with a beautiful girl. The beach proves just as lovely as he hoped. But the girl turns out to be trouble... -
![Odds On by John Lange, Michael Crichton]()
Odds On by John Lange, Michael Crichton
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey thought their daring hotel robbery scheme was airtight, but three men are about to learn that nothing is that simple at the Hotel Reina . . . To rob the finest resort in fascist Spain, three Americans need to blend in among the Mediterranean elite. And to do so, they will each need a gorgeous girl as cover... -
![Eve by James Hadley Chase]()
Eve by James Hadley Chase
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClive Thurston was a hard, ruthless Hollywood writer. But his fame and reputation rested on the work of another man - a brilliant playwright who had conveniently died. Clive thought his secret was safe - but then he met Eve. Eve was on the game. To Clive she was an enigma - bold, shy, wanton, and childlike by turn... -
![A Diet of Treacle by Lawrence Block, Sheldon Lord]()
A Diet of Treacle by Lawrence Block, Sheldon Lord
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDrug deals lead to murder after a beautiful college student gets involved with a stoner and his sociopathic roommate in 1960s Greenwich Village, in this classic tale by Block, published for the first time in almost 50 years. Original...
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