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DIRT RICH

CLARK HOWARD

This saga about the building of an oil empire and one man's personal journey is "wonderful . . . A truly exciting novel" ( Orlando Sentinel). After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an odd inheritance from a man he's never met: a parcel of land in east Texas. With little to lose, he and his wife set off from Kansas City and find themselve...

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A MOVEMENT TOWARD EDEN

CLARK HOWARD

A wealthy man has been abducted—but it's not his money the kidnappers are after—in this inventive thriller by an Edgar Award–winning author. Devlin's beat is usually organized crime, but now he's been called to the home of Jennifer Keyes, a redheaded actress whose husband has gone missing. It's not Devlin's sort of case, but he finds Jennifer compelling so he agrees to help—and...

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THE LAST GREAT DEATH STUNT

CLARK HOWARD

One team of daredevils is planning the ultimate death stunt finale in this novel by a "superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly). A team of professional stunt performers are likely to lose their livelihoods as a new law goes into effect, severely limiting their ability to take the risks that have made them who they are. In the meantime, they have a plan to mark a specta...

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HARD CITY

CLARK HOWARD

The searing novel of a brutal boyhood in 1940s Chicago—and a young man walking the knife's edge between a life of crime and a brighter future. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Richie grows up in poverty and hardship. His adolescence is a constant battle between hope—in the form of a kind boxing coach, a job in a bowling alley where he can sneak a nap, and a determ...

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CHALLENGE THE WIDOW-MAKER

CLARK HOWARD

A collection of short fiction, including an Edgar Award–nominated story, about hard-luck characters and the human instinct to survive. A survivor of Little Bighorn faces down the resulting trauma in the decades following the bloody battle. An old man who has lost his late wife's cat joins forces with an unlikely partner to rescue abused animals. An ex–racecar driver contends ...

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THE ARM

CLARK HOWARD

An ambitious gambler may lose it all in this novel by an Edgar Award–winning "superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly). He was known as Cully the Arm—the best crapshooter in Chicago. Life was a game of both skill and luck, and he'd made his way to the big city seeking his chance to be a winner. Before long he was moving between bars, backrooms, brothels—anywhere a man coul...

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TRACES OF MERCURY

CLARK HOWARD

A small-town doctor copes with an escalating medical mystery in this thriller by a "superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly). Lee Madrigal became a doctor in spite of his difficult working-class upbringing, with a mother who died young and a father who fell under the spell of alcohol. Now Lee serves his neighbors in the California community where he grew up, and has reunit...

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CITY BLOOD

CLARK HOWARD

"[An] unusual cop story set in Chicago . . . This graphic depiction of urban and emotional decay carries a powerful, lasting punch." — Publishers Weekly When a topless dancer is beaten to death, police detective Joe Kiley strongly suspects her boyfriend, a mob kingpin's brother, is the killer. He isn't—but in the course of trying to track him down, Kiley's partner winds up de...

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SIBERIA 10

CLARK HOWARD

As the Vietnam War rages, blood will be shed at a stateside Marine Corps prison, in this novel by a "superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly). Siberia 10 is a military prison in California, and tensions are coming to a slow boil within its walls. Inmates are trying to escape; guards are practicing constant brutality; racial tensions are seething. Those confined to Siberia ...

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THE KILLINGS

CLARK HOWARD

Two LAPD detectives are at odds over a horrifying case in this "taut shocker" of a novel by an Edgar Award–winning author ( The Boston Globe). A pair of twins have been brutally murdered, and Los Angeles detectives George Cascade and Ed Fenner find themselves working a case with puzzling sexual overtones. When a young, intellectually disabled African American becomes the obje...

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AMERICAN SATURDAY

CLARK HOWARD

A "vividly written" account of the bloody 1971 San Quentin riot by the Edgar Award–winning author of Zebra and Six Against the Rock ( Kirkus Reviews). American Saturday traces one man's path from the slums of Chicago to the California state prison where he embraced radicalism, was charged for the murder of a corrections officer, and eventually, was gunned down during the viol...

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THE DOOMSDAY SQUAD

CLARK HOWARD

A gritty, action-packed novel about a World War II suicide mission that goes sideways from a "superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly). In the midst of World War II, a Japanese submarine base must be destroyed. But someone needs to draw enemy fire while the goal is accomplished and the task would be a suicide mission. Only a certain kind of soldier can handle a job this ri...

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LAST CONTRACT

CLARK HOWARD

A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author. He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he's killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional assassin. And sometimes it's not just the target who takes a bullet—if the bodyguard or mistress is unfortunate enough to be around. When...

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SUMMIT KILL

CLARK HOWARD

One man fights to foil a wild plot for worldwide destruction in this action-packed thriller from "a superlative storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly). Herr Inman has a plan and the resources to pull it off. First there will be five assassinations of powerful world leaders—including the pope—then three atomic bombs aimed at major cities. In the resulting chaos, Inman will take over ...

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ZEBRA

CLARK HOWARD

Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of a string of brutal crimes committed in the name of religious fanaticism and racial hatred in 1970s San Francisco. In the early 1970s, a small band of well-dressed, clean-cut African American men began terrorizing the residents of San Francisco with guns and machetes. Their victims ranged from a teenage Salvation Army cadet to a middle-a...

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QUICK SILVER

CLARK HOWARD

An " intense, deeply haunting" saga about love, money, and murder, set amid Nevada's mining and gambling booms ( Publishers Weekly). In the aftermath of World War I, three veterans—Mike, Jim, and Buck—meet a seductive woman named Ruby. Quick Silver follows all four over a span of decades, from Virginia City to Las Vegas, as their lives intertwine and intersect. It is a tale o...

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MARK THE SPARROW

CLARK HOWARD

A suspenseful novel about the last-minute battle to save a man on death row and the uproar surrounding his case as his time runs out . . . Weldon Whitmen was arrested for committing a series of robberies and bizarre sex crimes while out on parole. Now he's condemned to die. Claiming innocence, he makes headlines with his appeal—and two people decide to come to his aid. One ...

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BROTHERS IN BLOOD

CLARK HOWARD

A "gripping, emotionally charged" account of a brutal crime committed by escaped prisoners from an Edgar Award–winning author ( Los Angeles Times Book Review). In 1973, six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered in their home in Donalsonville, Georgia, by fugitives who escaped from a Maryland prison and broke in to the Alday's house. Two of the escapees were broth...

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LOVE'S BLOOD

CLARK HOWARD

"[This] deeply engaging tale of a teenager who may—or may not—have helped kill her parents [is] a model of evenhanded true-crime writing." — Kirkus Reviews Sixteen-year-old Patricia Columbo began working for pharmacist Frank DeLuca, a married father of five, in the 1970s, and the two soon entered into a sexual relationship. Against her father's wishes, Patricia and Frank move...

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CROWDED LIVES

CLARK HOWARD

Gritty, suspenseful short fiction about criminals and other characters on the edge from an Edgar Award–winning author. "Not all Howard's heroes are ex-cons, but they might as well be. They've all been around the block, made more than their share of mistakes, and taken their lumps, usually without complaint. A hit man who refuses a commission goes into hiding, afraid that ever...

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THE HUNTERS

CLARK HOWARD

A hunting trip turns into a manhunt in this chilling predator-versus-prey thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author. Four guys from the suburbs are about to set out on a hunting trip. Wes is an architectural draftsman with a secret. Leo has a high-level advertising job, but is miserable with ulcers. Milt sells pharmaceuticals but is disdained by his wife—who happens to be t...

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SIX AGAINST THE ROCK

CLARK HOWARD

Edgar Award Finalist: The story of the infamous escape attempt and bloody siege at Alcatraz. In 1946, six men attempted to break out of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison on an island off the coast of San Francisco. Their bloody siege lasted two days, and ended with five dead and fifteen wounded—plus two of the perpetrators executed for their role in the...

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THE WARDENS

CLARK HOWARD

The decades-spanning saga of a woman's life in a family of prison wardens—and among the criminals they guard—by a Spur Award–nominated author. Dru is the daughter of a warden, the first in a long line keeping watch over a local prison. This multigenerational epic follows Dru's relationships and conflicts with men on both sides of the bars through the early twentieth century, ...

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