Tag: Tough Guy
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Memory
The Crime Was Over In A Minute— The Consquences Lasted A Lifetime
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…
via Hard Case Crime Painting via Glen Orbik
The Valley of Fear
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They all answered to…the BODYMASTER!
Years ago, a P.I. out of Chicago brought justice to a dirty town. Now he’s going to pay.
A sawed-off shotgun blast to the face leaves one man dead–and reveals a secret that has pursued another across an ocean and set the world’s most ruthless criminal on his trail. The man needs the help of a great detective…but could even Sherlock Holmes save him now?
via Hard Case Crime with original artwork by Glen Orbik
Quarry In The Middle
When two rival casino owners covet the same territory, guess who puts himself in the crossfire…
via Hard Case Crime. The history of this cover painting, as well as some preleminary sketches, is on the author’s blog.
Stop This Man!
He Carried Death Everywhere He Went
SOME MEN AND SOME MERCHANDISE ARE JUST TOO HOT TO HANDLE All Tony Catell knew when he broke into the university science lab was that they had a gold ingot on the premises for some sort of experiment. So he stole it. What he didn’t know was that the experiment involved nuclear power—and that the gold was dangerously radioactive. Now the cops and the FBI are on Tony’s trail, Tony’s underworld contacts don’t want anything to do with him, and the loot he’s lugging around is leaving a swath of radiation sickness and death in his path. And since he’s just come from his third stint in prison, if they catch him, he’s not going back to jail—he’s going to the electric chair…
via Hard Case Crime
Gun Work
Make Sure You Choose The Right Weapon For The Job
POINT AND SHOOT. Life isn’t always cheap south of the border—some lives are worth a million dollars. That’s what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter’s wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he’d saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some…call for gun work.
via Hard Case Crime
The First Quarry
Killing is a young man’s game.
For the first time ever, the best-selling author of ROAD TO PERDITION takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry’s first job: infiltrating a college town and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins…
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No House Limit
They backed the world’s greatest gambler to bring down an honest man.
Joe Martin ran the biggest independent casino on the Las Vegas strip—and the Syndicate wanted him out. So they brought in Bello, the most famous gambler in the world, to challenge Joe to a marathon craps game. The stakes: everything Joe owns…
via Hard Case Crime
The Last Quarry
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?
As seen in the film ‘Shades of Noir’, apparently.
via Hard Case Crime
Lemons Never Lie
Grofield never wanted to get involved with Myers’ crazy plan to heist a brewery payroll—but now he’s involved, whether he likes it or not…
When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately—which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane—so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn’t a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality. That’s when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable of…
via Hard Case Crime
When It’s Time to Say Goodbye… Say It With Bullets
Bill Wayne took the road trip through the West to find out which of his former army buddies shot him in the back and left him for dead—but the would-be killer isn’t just waiting to be found…
Bill Wayne told his beautiful tour guide that he took the bus trip through the West to relax. But who can relax with dead bodies turning up at every stop? From Cheyenne to Salt Lake City, from Reno to Yosemite, Bill’s secretly on a mission to discover which of his former army buddies shot him and left him for dead four years earlier. But with all the lead that’s flying around, Bill will be lucky to make it to the end of the tour in one piece…
via Hard Case Crime
Dutch Uncle
They Were Small-Time Crooks — In Big Time Trouble
Harry had done his time and wanted to stay clean—but with his pockets full of drug money and a dead body at his feet, it wasn’t going to be easy…
Three days out of prison and trying to stay clean, Harry Healy doesn’t really want to get involved with Manfred Pfiser’s drug deals. But he needs the cash—so he agrees to make one simple delivery. Simple, that is, till Harry stumbles across the results of a robbery cooked up by an old cellmate of his, together with a former high school baseball star, a trigger-happy sociopath, and a beach bunny who can’t seem to keep her clothing on. Now they’re all on the run—from the cops, from the drug lords, and from each other…
via Hard Case Crime
Plunder of the Sun [Hard Case reprint]
On the trail of the lost treasure of the Incas — with every fortune hunter in South America closing in!
Al Colby should never have agreed to smuggle the package from Chile to Peru. Now one man’s dead, two beautiful women have betrayed him, and a couple of gunmen are hot on his trail. All because of an ancient Quechua manuscript pointing to the hiding place of a priceless hoard of gold, lost for centuries. Now the race is on — by train, by plane, by motorboat and by mule — first to find the treasure and then to escape with it alive…
via Hard Case Crime. A reprint of the book featured here.
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He’s Lost Everything — Except His Eye For Vengeance
The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospital, it was a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead. Then things started to get bad.
via Hard Case Crime
Top of the Heap
She Played The Odds — And Lost!
The client had a perfect alibi for the night Maureen Auburn disappeared — but nothing made private eye Donald Lam suspicious like a perfect alibi.
When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, it’s up to P.I. Donald Lam to get to the bottom of her disappearance — and of a mining scam, an illegal casino operation, a double homicide, and an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune…if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in!
via Hard Case Crime