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Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate series in the Parker universe, starring Alan Grofield, an occasional colleague of Parker. While he shares events and characters with several Parker novels, Grofield is less calculating...
2) The outsider
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"The country-house lifestyle of the Carter family may seem picture-perfect, but they aren't what they appear to be. Undercover cop Rob Langton has one aim--to bring the family down. But Rob soon realises the Carters aren't just dangerous criminals. If hecan't stop them, the consequences will be explosive"-- Provided by publisher.
3) Oliver Twist
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An abridged version of Dicken's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
4) 2:22
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Hardened criminals devise a foolproof plan for a snowy New Year's Eve heist at 2:22 a.m. at a high-class hotel filled with valuable safety deposit boxes. But a seemingly small mistake leads to treachery, pursuit and merder.
5) Breathless
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After killing a police officer and stealing a car, a Parisian man tries to convince an American student to run away with him to Italy.
9) Dirty money
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Master criminal Parker and his cohorts return to an abandoned country church where they had been forced to abandon the spoils of a bank heist, an endeavor during which he drives an old choir van and works to outmaneuver foes on both sides of the law.
10) Bank shot
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Instead of robbing a bank, Dortmunder tries to steal the whole building Encyclopedias are heavy, and John Dortmunder is sick of carrying them. While in between jobs, the persistent heist-planner is working an encyclopedia-selling scam that's about to blow up in his face. The cops are on their way when his friend Kelp pulls up in a stolen Oldsmobile, offering a quick escape from the law and a job that's too insane to turn down. Kelp's nephew is...
11) Halt's peril
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Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
12) The pledge
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A sheriff sets out to capture an escaped criminal who murdered his wife and son, only to find that he was hired by a greedy land baron.
13) 33 postcards
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When Mei Mei, a sixteen-year-old Chinese orphan, travels to Australia to take part in the Australian Choir Festival, she locates her Australian sponser, but she finds that his life is far from how he depicted it.
14) Nightwise
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In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in-between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's said he raised the dead at the age of ten, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas back in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. Wise in the hidden ways of the night, he's also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of himself as the good guy a long time ago. Now a promise to a dying friend...
16) Masterminds
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"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"-- Provided by publisher.
18) Dark song
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After her father loses his job and she finds out that her parents have lied to her, fifteen-year-old Ames feels betrayed enough to become involved with a criminal who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
19) The melted coins
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Suspecting that their friend has been swindled, the Hardy brothers investigate and find themselves on the trail of a much larger criminal operation.
20) Breakout
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A master thief must build a team to escape a correctional center in this fast-paced, hard-boiled crime novel by the author of Firebreak.
With Parker locked up and about to be unmasked, Breakout follows his Houdini-like escape from prison with a team of convicts. But when a new heist and new dangers-con artists, snitches, busybodies, eccentrics, and cops-loom among the dark alleys and old stone buildings of the big city to which they've fled, Parker...
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