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QUARRY'S BACK – FOR HIS TOUGHEST JOB EVER.
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?
And why in hell does he care?
On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's...
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead?
And why in hell does he care?
On the 30th anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's...
3) Memory
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"Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul's facing steep odds--and a bleak fate if he fails."--P. [4] of cover.
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-103
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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In the late 1960s, Morgan the Raider is on the run in Miami, after the Feds mistakenly ID him as the mastermind of a $40 million theft. Fortunately, Cuban exiles come to Morgan's rescue in the city's Little Havana neighborhood. Their leader asks him to recover $75,000 stolen from the anti-Castro emigres by double agent Jaimie Halaquez, who infiltrated their movement on behalf of the Cuban government. When Morgan learns that Halaquez has been banned...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-109
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Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford's forced to take a job serving drinks in a cocktail lounge to make ends meet and to have a chance of regaining custody of her young son. At the job she encounters two men who take an interest in her: a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional...
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2012
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In 1977, aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents, and veteran of countless USO tours to boost morale, is kidnapped by the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army who want to bring their cause back to life.
8) Joyland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
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Titan
Pub. Date
2013
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It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books--especially the gory and bloody sort published by the bad boys at EF Comics. But the would-be censor meets a violent end of his own--leaving his opponents in hot water.
10) Borderline
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2014.
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"On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet Marty--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with... Meg--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds... Lily--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by... Cassie--the redhead with her own private agenda... and Weaver--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from...
11) The wrong quarry
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2014.
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Hitman Quarry, who helps his marked-for-death clients by eliminating the killers sent after them--and finding out who hired them--wonders if he has the wrong target in his sights when he zeroes in on the grieving family of a missing cheerleader.
13) Quarry's choice
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Hard Case Crime
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2015.
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"Biloxi blues: Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city--with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner--Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to kill?"--Page [4] of cover.
14) Cut me in
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-122
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
[c2016].
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English
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"Maybe no one liked Del Gilbert a whole lot, not the men he ruthlessly did business with, not the women who discovered his other lovers, not even his partner in the Gilbert and Blake literary agency - me. But when I found him shot to death on the floor of his office, I had no choice. I had to track down the person responsible. And not just to lay Del to rest, either. Next to his body, the office safe was wide open, and a contract worth millions was...
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Titan Books
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[2016]
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English
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At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gardner was the best-selling American author of the 20th century, and world famous as the creator of crusading attorney Perry Mason. Gardner also created the hardboiled detective team of Cool and Lam, stars of 29 novels published between 1939 and 1970 -- and one that{u2019}s never been published until now.
17) Sinner man
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Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?"--Amazon.com.
18) Quarry's climax
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man - the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax - can keep Climer from becoming...
19) Turn on the heat
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Erle Stanley Gardner was not just the creator of Perry Mason -- at the time of his death, he was the best-selling American author of all time, with hundreds of millions of books in print. Among those books were the 29 cases of the brash, irresistible detective team of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. Last year, Hard Case Crime brought out the first new Cool and Lam novel in decades, THE KNIFE SLIPPED, lost for 77 years after Gardner's publisher refused...
20) Babylon Berlin
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Titan Comics
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2018.
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English
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"Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Gereon Rath had a promising career in the Cologne homicide division until he killed a man in the line of duty. His influential father managed to pull some strings, and now, transferred to the Berlin vice squad, he's stuck in a city he doesn't know and a job he doesn't want. But that is just the start of Rath's troubles as he is pulled into a web of deceit, corruption, murder and the search for Russian gold."-- cover...
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