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Richard Poe
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David Gordon
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In this riotous caper from Edgar Award finalist David Gordon, the CIA, FBI, and nearly every level of organized crime collide with a singularly evil domestic terrorist and a reluctant bandit known by all as "Joe the Bouncer".
Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip-club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest - just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under "Most Wanted". Outside the jailhouse, the fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale.
For listeners who like a heavy dose of fun with their murder, this is crime fiction at its freshest, from a virtuoso of the "darkly comic, stylish literary thriller" (Associated Press).
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The Power of the Dog
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,856
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,852
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,824
This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping Drama
- By Deborah on 01-06-11
By: Don Winslow
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Past Crimes
- A Van Shaw Novel
- By: Glen Erik Hamilton
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 270
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 242
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Story4 out of 5 stars 237
From the time he was six years old, Van Shaw was raised by his Irish immigrant grandfather, Donovan, to be a thief - to boost cars, beat security alarms, crack safes, and burglarize businesses. But at 18 Dono's namesake and protégé suddenly broke all ties to that life and the people in it. Van escaped into the military, serving as an elite army ranger in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, after ten years of silence, Dono has asked his grandson to come home to Seattle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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15 Stars! Okay?
- By Ted on 03-06-16
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Dark City
- Repairman Jack: Early Years Trilogy, Book 2
- By: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 449
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 394
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 388
It's February 1991. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but 22-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under his friend Julio. No longer merely reactive, Jack takes the fight to his enemies and demonstrates his innate talent for seeing biters get bit. With a body count even higher than in Cold City, Dark City hurtles Jack toward the climax of this formative New York odyssey in which all scores will be settled, all debts paid.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slooooow
- By vanessa on 10-16-13
By: F. Paul Wilson
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Night Life
- By: David C. Taylor
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,227
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,114
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,110
New York City, 1954. The Cold War is heating up, Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for communists in America, the newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary United States intelligence agency, and the bodies of murdered young men are turning up all over the city.
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5 out of 5 stars
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terrific in every way
- By Martha on 04-12-16
By: David C. Taylor
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The Winter of Frankie Machine
- By: Don Winslow
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,067
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,682
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,678
Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. An affable Italian with a love of people and life, he's a stand-up businessman, devoted father, and a beloved fixture in the community. He's also a hit man - specifically, a retired hit man. Back in the day when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast Mafia, he was known as Frankie Machine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five stars straight across the board
- By Eric Taylor on 06-28-12
By: Don Winslow
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The Watchman
- An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel, Book 11
- By: Robert Crais
- Narrated by: James Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,911
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,500
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,498
At last, the enigmatic partner of Elvis Cole (The Two Minute Rule) takes center stage in this pulse-racing thriller. When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction.... Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Then suddenly she sees another car’s metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident and, dazed, finds herself the single witness in a secret federal investigation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Joe Pike is a real person: no longer a cartoon.
- By Richard Delman on 05-05-17
By: Robert Crais
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Tom Clancy's Net Force #5: Point of Impact
- By: Netco Partners
- Narrated by: J. K. Simmons
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force. It's the rich man's drug of choice - and it's being sold on the Internet for a thousand dollars a capsule. A potent mixture of smart drugs, psychedelics, angel dust, and steroids, it can turn a 50-year-old into a raging beast of aggression and sexual desire. Now it's up to the Net Force to find the source of this dangerous designer drug.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Characters
- By Eric C. Firkin on 12-13-24
By: Netco Partners
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Big City, Bad Blood
- By: Sean Chercover
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 279
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4 out of 5 stars 169
Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quintessentially Chicago
- By Eva Gannon on 09-21-09
By: Sean Chercover
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Tilt-a-Whirl
- John Ceepak, Book 1
- By: Chris Grabenstein
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,841
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,018
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,999
There isn't much fun in the sun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-a-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet summer tourist town of Sea Haven. John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq, has just joined the Sea Haven police department. The job offer came from an old Army buddy who hoped to give Ceepak at least a summer's worth of rest and relaxation to help him forget the horrors of war. Instead, Ceepak will head up the murder investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All I can say is WOW!
- By Catherine J. Pondozzi on 08-06-13
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The Ultimatum
- The Guardian, Book 1
- By: Karen Robards
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,276
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,035
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,033
Growing up, Bianca St. Ives knew she was different from all her friends. Instead of playing hopscotch or combing her dolls' hair, she studied martial arts with sensei masters and dismantled explosives with special-ops retirees. Her father prepped her well to carry on the family business. Now a striking beauty with fierce skills, the prodigy has surpassed the master.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cliffhanger!!!
- By Jan M on 03-25-18
By: Karen Robards
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Dating Dead Men
- By: Harley Jane Kozak
- Narrated by: Deanna Hurst
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 490
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Story4 out of 5 stars 387
Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating 40 men in 60 days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado - a state-run mental hospital - and is taken hostage by a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the Mob.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Stephanie Plum
- By Don on 08-30-12
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Exit Strategy
- Nadia Stafford, Book 1
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda, Richard Ferrone
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 401
Regulars at Nadia’s nature lodge don’t ask what she does in the off-season. And that’s a good thing. If she told them, she’d have to kill them. She’s a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn’t owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn’t mean she always works alone. One of her contacts has recruited her in the hunt for a ruthlessly efficient serial killer cutting a swath of terror across the country. The assassin is far too skilled to be an amateur - and the precision of the killings is bringing the Feds much too close to the hit man community for comfort.
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3 out of 5 stars
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some strong elements, but....
- By Lifeisshort on 10-17-13
By: Kelley Armstrong
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A Drink Before the War
- By: Dennis Lehane
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,813
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,607
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,602
With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
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4 out of 5 stars
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White Bread
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-30-12
By: Dennis Lehane
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Good People
- By: Marcus Sakey
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean, Dan John Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
The $400,000 would take care of the mortgage payments that are starting to back up on Tom and Anna Reed. It would cover the credit-card debt they can't get out from under. It would help them find a way to have the child they desperately want but can't seem to conceive. It is more money than either of them has ever seen in one place. But they have no idea what it's doing in their house.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What were the producers thinking?
- By cristina on 08-04-13
By: Marcus Sakey
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Liars & Thieves
- Tommy Carmellini, Book 1
- By: Stephen Coonts
- Narrated by: Guerin Barry
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 894
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 699
Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in Virginia's remote Blue Ridge Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fast Paced - Good Read!
- By Andrew Stone on 01-11-09
By: Stephen Coonts
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In the Bleak Midwinter
- By: Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 456
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 369
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Story4 out of 5 stars 367
Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady"; she's a tough ex-Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good shepherd for the stray sheep of his hometown.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ice Cold Complex Small Town Police Procedural/Mystery
- By Sara on 12-27-14
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- No Suspicion
- 09-01-18
Cinematic
Good read. Hard boiled with a hint of modern lit. American anti-hero — thrown in to a strange world of danger, glamor, and blood. Resolves well. Will make a summertime movie hit. Prolly the 1st of a series
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- Joseph S.
- 10-02-21
Terrible Book, No Actual story
The author just beats the details to death and the storie never moves toward. I couldn’t finish the book it was so drawn out with pointless details. I will be returning this book. Just awful.
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