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Series
Quarry novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enigmatic hitman Quarry - star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (The Last Lullaby) - is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two rival casino owners covet the same territory, guess who puts himself in the crossfire. ...
2) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Freelance hitman, Will Robie, has a job from the US government. When he expertly nails his target -- a suspected enemy of the country -- he sees something on leaving the scene of crime which he suspects will have deadly consequences ... Robie saves a young teenage runaway who has escaped from...
Author
Series
Cartel novels volume 5
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Arabic millionaire presents new problems for the women of the family after an airplane, with The Cartel men aboard, falls from the sky. Fleeing the federal government, the women who remain try to legitimize their family by taking on new territory out west, where new gangsters cause new problems. Wherever The Cartel goes, lies, theft, and murder are still sure to follow. Cartel series series, (Original), 288pp.
Author
Series
Butcher's boy volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murder has been easy for the butcher's boy until now: It's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of specialists in police agencies who watch the world of organized crime. All notice that something big is going on, but only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer. Before Jack can locate her, several members of France's cultural elite are found dead -- murdered in stunning, symbolic...
Author
Series
Ruinous love trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, Lachlan knows he'll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first. And they can't stand each...
7) Silence
Author
Series
Jack Till volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
©1996.
Language
English
Description
A spoof on the thriller genre starring Thomas Lang, an ex-Scots Guards officer who is offered $100,000 to assassinate an industrialist. Lang, an honorable man, rejects the offer and warns the victim, only to discover the victim was the one who put out the contract. From there, laughs and thrills. By a British actor and comedy writer, star of Jeeves and Wooster.
9) The good guy
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakens him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Lucas is a solitary assassin hired to kill a young woman, Ella. When he can't bring himself to pull the trigger the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.
11) Killjoy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avery Delaney has tried hard to put her past behind her. Abandoned by her mother as an infant, she was raised by her grandmother and her aunt. At age ten, she witnessed her grandmother's murder before she herself was shot and left for dead. Now working as an FBI agent, she is forced to work on the case of her missing Aunt Carolyn who was sent to a posh spa in the mountains of Colorado by her soon-to-be ex-husband. Carolyn never made it to the spa....
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
If you sense someone's watching you from afar, or if you feel a shadow other than your own at your back. Follow your instincts ... your're in danger. It's a job that makes a killing. Effeicient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be touched by the law.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescued during a break-in by an unlikely hit man who has been directed by the mob to protect her, food writer Cranky Agnes finds her situation further complicated by a missing cache of money that becomes a key factor in a Southern mafia wedding.
15) Assassin club
Publisher
Acquisition - PPC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The hunter becomes the hunted when an elite assassin is given his final contract: to kill seven people around the world only to discover the targets are equally skilled assassins hired to kill him. His only shot to survive is to uncover the mysterious mastermind behind the deadly plot before it's too late.
16) Gallowwalkers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman, Aman, is the son of a nun who breaks her covenant with God to ensure his survival. This act brings a curse upon Aman and all those that die by his gun will return. Soon, he is hunted by a gang of his undead former victims, led by the vicious Kansa. Aman enlists Fabulos, a new young warrior, to fight by his side.
17) Private Vegas
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds -- especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides -- and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where...
18) Bad country
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
19) Hitman 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Travel the globe and track your targets across exotic sandbox locations in Hitman 2. From sun-drenched streets to dark and dangerous rainforests, nowhere is safe from the world's most deadly assassin, Agent 47. Prepare to experience the ultimate spy thriller story -- your mission is to eliminate the elusive Shadow Client and unravel his militia, but upon learning your target's true identity and the truth about 47's past, nothing will ever be the...
20) Camino winds
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but...
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