 | No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker
Buy used from: £0.01 Tarantino right for once. A crime thriller about a gem heist gone bad and arguably the hardest, toughest prose ever written. Lean and mean. Bunker is the MAN.
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 | Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
Buy used from: £0.01 Epic race-war in a prison. Willocks builds the tension and doesn't let up. Uncompromizing, violent and intelligent.
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 | Flock of Ships by Brian Callison
Buy used from: £0.01 Callison is hugely under-rated. Fantastic war story that stays in the mind. Should be reprinted immediately!
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| Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford
Buy used from: £41.05 Cult french foreign legion novel about former SS in pre-Vietnam Indo-China. The commies get their desserts and much atrocity. A cult book for good reason..
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 | The Mysteries of Algiers (Contemporary English Language Fiction) by Robert Irwin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Utterly loony. Algerian War of Independence and the occupying French have a traitor to flush. Eyes hypoed, tongues cut out with scissors, torture galore.
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 | Fields of Fire by James H. Webb
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £3.71 A truly great fast paced novel of the Vietnam war by a guy who was there. Snake and the other characters are well-drawn people, not just stock characters.
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 | Blossom by Andrew H. Vachss
Buy used from: £2.07 As hard-boiled as you can get. A sex-sniper has to be tracked down and stopped. Burke is the man equipped to do it.
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 | Mr. In-between by Neil Cross
Buy used from: £0.01 The Tattooed Man and his protege assassin, Jon, vie for the souls of his friends. Great compulsive writing and shadowy atmospheric underrated movie too.
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 | King of the Ants by Charlie Higson
Buy used from: £0.01 The crime thriller gets a neat twist from the Fast Show writer. Not a comedy and very nasty in places. Made into good movie by the Reanimator director.
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 | California Fire and Life by Don Winslow
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.47 One of the best modern crime thriller writers out there. Fast paced, witty and intelligent. Fantastic book. Buy all Winslows novels!
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| Open Season by David Osborn
Buy used from: £8.60 Brutal vengeance on three rapist\murderers in the American wilderness. A modern classic and much imitated.
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 | Deep Blue Good-Bye by John D. MacDonald
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £0.01 The first Travis McGee mystery. There've been plenty of hard-bitten private eye novels but this is up there at the top. UberCool indeed.
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 | Rain Dogs by Sean Doolittle
Buy new: £4.21 / Used from: £2.03 Sean Doolittle deserves to be better known. As with most US noir writers, knocks the Brits into a cocked hat. Good violent, fast paced thriller.
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 | Nicks Trip (Mask Noir) by George Pelecanos
Buy used from: £4.62 Everybody should read Pelecanos. When an old friend walks into The Spot, Nick Stefanos should know he's in for a rough trip. Another great gritty urban thriller.. The genre leader.
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| STARLIGHT by Scott. Ely
Buy used from: £103.93 Great vietnam story, full of off-beat humour and observation; about a sniper whose nightscope 'sees' death before it happens.
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