The third of the Tiger Mann adventures calls on the master of counter-espionage to act as unofficial bodyguard to a visiting Arab king. The American government is courting the visiting ruler for reasons of oil. The Communists want the king, too - but they'd prefer him dead. So Tiger has to outwit the principal Far East Communist agent, counteract Communist propaganda being fed to the king, entertain the monarch's beautiful fiance ... ... and still keep his lovely Rondine happy.
An angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an ex-con's attempt to negotiate the straight world' and his swan dive back into the paradoxical security of crime. Airtight in its construction, it is almost photorealistic in its portrayal of LA lowlife and utterly knowledgeable about the terrors of liberty, the high of the quick score and the rage that makes the finger tighten on the trigger of the gun. 'The best first-person crime novel I have ever read' - Quentin Tarantino 'A gripping and har...
Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike’s making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you’ve been hiding out for forty years. Until his past comes calling. Mike’s nephew Andrew needs to disappear, and he needs to do it yesterday. Hanging with the wrong kind of friends, he’s seen something he shouldn’t have, and now he’s running for his life with an assass...
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis Mcgee Mysteries) (Travis McGee, #10)
by John D. MacDonald
From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself. But what can a devil-may-care beach bum do for a young troubled mind? ...
A Fashion To Kill (The Manhattan Mysteries: Hard Boiled New York City Fiction, #1)
by Mickey Wyte
Lou Cale is a journalist and police crime scene photographer who finds his way into the strangest cases America has to offer in the 1940's. This volume collects the stories, "The Broken Doll, The Scalped Body and "Siam's Pearls. A unique mix of social examination and brutal crime investigation, Lou Cale is sure to entice fans of both detective stories and fans of graphic novels such as "Jinx and "Sin City.
Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies. Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Cole can get him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves the office, Cole and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt...
"Now and then Mrs. Groener used to scream," the big man explained, "when she'd been drinking heavily I'd leave the bedroom. It may have been a rebuke or summons to me, or a fighting challenge to the whiskey bottle, or simply an expression of her rather dark evaluation of life. But it had never meant anything more real than that-until tonight."
