« La plupart des hommes fabriquent des vivants, moi je fabrique des morts.Ça va plus vite, et ça impressionne davantage. »Âmes sensibles, s’abstenir.L’Ange Noir est tout sauf un marrant. L’Ange Noir est l’ennemi public n° 1. Flics, femmes, cadors du crime : personne ne lui résiste. Et surtout pas la mort. Vivre sans temps mort et jouir sans entraves, telle pourrait être sa devise.Même quand il s’agit de raconter son épopée, il n’y a pas un chroniqueur qui tienne la distance. Alors il va s’en charger seul. Cet Al Capone moderne n’a décidément pas l’esprit d’équipe. Sans honte, sans peur, et surtout sans filtre, l’Ange Noir prend la parole et déroule le fil de son épopée sanglante.Premier meurtre à déclarer ? Sa mère — un accident de naissance. Après elle, personne n’y échappe, de Londres à Paris, en passant par Mexico. L’Ange Noir a la gâchette facile, le « beau sexe » pour obsession, et un sale penchant pour l’alcool.Les originaux de ces confessions publiées en 1952 sous le pseudonyme de l’Ange Noir, réunis ici en un volume, préfigurent, par bien des aspects, l’avènement du légendaire San-Antonio.Préface d'Alexandre Clément

After Mike Hammer witnesses Wall Street superstar Vincent Colby getting clipped by a speeding red Ferrari, the shaken victim’s stockbroker father hires Hammer to find the driver. But the toughest private eye of them all soon is caught up in a series of bizarre, seemingly unconnected slayings marked by a forbidden martial arts technique.

ME, HOOD! YOU, CORPSE!The bodies were piling up like basketball points, but the name of this game was Mafia Murder. The punks, the junkies and the hookers were running scared, and the police weren’t far behind them. Then some smart cop got an idea which would either make him Commissioner or get him kicked off the force:Con the coolest hood in New York onto the Department payroll and send him out to do his own violent thing in the name of law and order. The bait: ten grand, a beautiful bitch begging to be tamed — and a license to bag all the corpses he can shoot...DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPILLANE:ME, HOOD! and RETURN OF THE HOOD, two new pulse-racers never before published in the U.S. They’re vintage Spillane — brutal, sexy, unbeatable.

Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle – a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.

She was a full blown brunette in a bandanna halter that just covered the essentials. The non-essentials were very impressive too. This was just the kind of case Shayne could enjoy. Keeping an eye on a dish like this and getting paid for it to boot.

A cryptic note concealed in a DEAD MAN’S DIARY causes Mike Shayne to return to the past, to trace the secret of the dead man’s life — and he finds himself dangerously involved in murder, both past and present.In A TASTE FOR COGNAC, Mike and a copper-haired girl reporter from New York uncover the crime story of the year — but twenty-four terror-filled hours on a gunmen’s island hideaway create some reasonable doubt whether they will live to tell it.In DINNER AT DUPRE’S, one of Mike Shayne’s clients gets rubbed out in the French Quarter of New Orleans before he can get to Mike’s office. And the client’s untimely death gets Mike into a deep dish of homicide, blackmail, bigamy, kidnaping, and assorted other skulduggery. The cops are after Mike’s blood and nothing but a game of dodge and run saves his license and his skin.

In the gloomy pre-dawn hours of a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of unemployed hopefuls are lined up for a job fair. Without warning, a merciless driver plows through the crowd in a roaring Mercedes. Eight people are killed; 15 are wounded. The killer escapes into the early-spring fog never to be seen from again. Until now…Detective Bill Hodges is a battle-hardened and streetwise crime fighter originally assigned to the Mercedes killings. Now retired, Hodges has lost his way in boredom and depression craving the thrills of taking down the region’s most notorious criminals. When a disturbing letter from the Mercedes Killer arrives at his door, Hodges soon finds himself uncontrollably drawn into a cat-n-mouse pursuit with stakes beyond comprehension.Mr. Mercedes is Stephen’s first “hard-boiled detective tale.” It will transport you into a vibrant and dangerous world filled with gritty characters living on the bleeding edge of reason. Be prepared…

A John Puller Novel #4

After his father is accused of murder, combat veteran and Special Agent John Puller must investigate his past and learn the truth about his mother in this New York Times bestselling thriller – but someone hiding in the shadows wants revenge.

Two men. Thirty years.

John Puller’s mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that, he was at Fort Monroe. One night three decades ago, Puller’s and Rogers’ worlds collided with devastating results, and the truth has been buried ever since.

Until now.

Military investigators, armed with a letter from a friend of Jackie’s, arrive in the hospital room of Puller’s father – a legendary three-star now sinking into dementia – and reveal that Puller Sr. has been accused of murdering his wife.

Aided by his brother Robert Puller, an Air Force major, and Veronica Knox, who works for a shadowy U.S. intelligence organization, Puller begins a journey that will take him into his own past, to find the truth about his mother.

Paul Rogers’ time is running out. With the clock ticking, he begins his own journey, one that will take him across the country to the place where all his troubles began: a mysterious building on the grounds of Fort Monroe. There, thirty years ago, the man Rogers had once been vanished too, and was replaced with a monster. And now the monster wants revenge. And the only person standing in his way is John Puller.

Published together for the first time, and including a brand-new adventure, the complete Jack Reacher short story collection

Jack ‘No Middle Name’ Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero of our age.

A new Reacher novella, Too Much Time, is included, as are those previously only published as individual ebooks: Second Son, Deep Down, High Heat, Not a Drill and Small Wars; and so is every Reacher short story that Child has written so far. Read together, they shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.

Jax Bowman and Jim Grood, avengers, fight a confidence man with his own weapons.

Hoping to win over the beautiful Francine, Chip Harrison is astonished when an attempt is made on his life, an event that places him at the forefront of a fast-paced investigation.

Sherman Jamison is rich, very rich. He has amassed millions and now wants someone to pass them on to, the next in the family line. But he has no heir as his wife has been unable to have children. Refusing to let this stand in his way, Jamison pleads for a divorce but his wife, a devout Catholic, refuses to give into his demands. If she will not agree, she will have to be removed. Jamison hires a professional killer to do the deed but this is only the beginning of a thrilling and electrifying story of revenge, betrayal and murder.

Молодая сотрудница контакт-центра компании «Телеком» получает в работу чат с клиентом, после чего встает со своего рабочего места и просто уходит. Через несколько дней её руководитель узнает, что сотрудница мертва, а в смерти обвиняют её бывшего молодого человека. Следователь, который ведет это дело приходит к выводу, что парня девушки подставили, а искать убийцу нужно в самой компании… Содержит нецензурную брань.

Michael O’Shea is a member of Ireland’s police force, known as the Guards. He’s also a sociopath who walks a knife-edge between sanity and all-out mayhem. When an exchange program is initiated and twenty Guards come to America and twenty cops from the States go to Ireland, Shea, as he’s known, has his lifelong dream come true — he becomes a member of the NYPD. But Shea’s dream is about to become New York’s nightmare.

Paired with an unstable cop nicknamed Kebar for his liberal use of a short, lethal metal stick called a K-bar, the two unlikely partners become a devastatingly effective force in the war against crime.

Kebar, however, harbors a dangerous secret: He’s sold out to the mob to help his sister. Her rape and beating have left her in a coma and the attack is pushing an already unstable Kebar over the edge just as Shea’s dark secrets threaten to boil over and into the streets of New York.

Once Were Cops melds the street poetry of Brooklyn and Dublin into a fast-paced, incomparable hard-boiled novel. This is Ken Bruen at his best.