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1) The big O
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Karen finds her life as a receptionist and armed robber turned upside down when her ex, Rossi, is paroled and her current boyfriend, Ray, asks for Karen's help in his latest job, which requires them to kidnap Karen's best friend.
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Language
English
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In a dying Pennsylvania coal town, three friends are looking for a way out. Mitch is a rebellious malcontent whose bad attitude gets him fired from a chain big box store. Doug can identify any pill by sight and any eighties rock song by the first three notes, but doesn't understand credit scores. Kevin got married and had a kid too soon and is now on parole after serving jail time for growing marijuana. The three of them dabble in petty crime and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A dangerous outlaw arrives in the small town of Holliswood, where everything seems perfect, with the intention of documenting the chaos and destruction he hopes to cause, and Daniel X attempts to stop the powerful villain with a hand-picked team.
4) The outfit
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The Outfit was organized crime with a capital O. They were big; they were bad; they were brutal. No crook ever crossed them and lived to enjoy it-except Parker. So they wanted Parker dead, and a hit man proved they meant business. Too bad for the Outfit he missed. Ripping off the Outfit was the easy part of Parker's game. Going one-on-one with Bronson, the Outfit's big boss, was the hard part.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 33
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In trying to trace a missing will, detectives Frank and Joe Hardy trap a dangerous criminal who is willing to risk all--including murder--for money.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Matthew Scudder finally has his life on the right track, and all he wants is to settle down with his wife in their new home in a quiet neighborhood, but then he agrees to help an old friend, and he finds himself fighting to save his life and his family.
7) Breakout
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
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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English
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In an unnamed city slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at an imperious detective agency. His job: writing reports on cases solved by the palindromic Detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor is murdered, Unwin is promoted to detective, a rank for which he is woefully unprepared. His only guidance comes from his sleepy new assistant and the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection. Unwin mounts his search for Sivart...
10) Insane city
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Seth Weinstein, in Florida for his destination wedding to Tina, who he thinks is out of his league, spends the two days prior to the event getting involved with pirates, Russian gangsters, strippers, powerful businessmen, high-speed chases, gunfire, and more, and finds his life forever changed by the experiences.
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Dortmunder loses his lucky ring to Max Fairbanks after he is caught trying to rob the billionaire who tells the police the cheap jewelry is his. In retaliation, Dortmunder assembles an entire team of crooks and goes on a burglary spree of Fairbanks's many residences and gathers up a lot of loot in his quest to recover the ring.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After Neal Maven finishes his tour in Iraq and returns home to Boston, he accepts a job from Brad Royce, a charismatic veteran who asks Maven to utilize his special skills to intercept drug deals for the money--and then destroy the drugs--but when the city's kingpins put a bounty on Maven's head, he begins to question how Royce receives his information.
13) Omerta
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Don Raymonde Aprile, retired after a long career of organized crime, is assassinated by a pair of hit men who believe there is no one left to seek revenge, but they did not count on the Don's adopted "nephew" from Sicily, a child raised unlike Aprile's own three children to take over the crime family.
14) The lock artist
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Michael, who has not spoken since a tragic occurrence ten years before, realizes he has a talent for picking locks, but his skills lead him into a life of crime that he will have to escape in order to confront the secret to his silence and find love.
15) Ask the parrot
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Series
Language
English
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The coldblooded criminal known as Parker tries, and fails, to stay under the radar in rural New England: "Nobody does the noir thriller better than Stark." -San Diego Union-Tribune
In Ask the Parrot, the followup to Nobody Runs Forever, ruthless thief Parker is back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he is forced to work with a small-town recluse nursing a grudge against the...
16) Utopia: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
18) Watch your back!
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Master criminal John Dortmunder and New York fence Arnie Albright plan the million-dollar robbery of valuable artworks in the penthouse of Preston Fareweather; however, their plans are overheard by members of the mob who have plans of their own.
19) Flashfire
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. But cash isn't everything, and now Parker's after a fortune in jewels. In Flashfire, Parker's in West Palm Beach,...
20) Firebreak
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Series
Language
English
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Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital-the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone. Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen...
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