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 Cons
by Timothy Watts
An ex-con tries to go straight but felony follows him wherever he goes
Frank Cullen—everyone calls him Cully—has just gotten released from Raiford State Prison in Florida and he’s on his way north to his home in Pennsylvania. "When Cully got out he headed north. He stopped for a weekend to work the field for a guy that never paid him and then got on a bus again. He wanted to put as much distance between himself and Florida as possible. He figured what he’d do was, he’d go back to Pennsylvania—see how his sister was doing. But halfway there he thought, Fuck it, and hopped off the bus in Beaufort, North Carolina.
 The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart
by Lawrence Block
Borrowing from Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and the film Casablanca, Block weaves a funny and intriguing tale of murder and theft
The myth of Humphrey Bogart has a powerful impact on the main character and his love interest in this funny detective novel by Lawrence Block. In this latest work, the creator of Bernie Rhodenbarr and The Burglar Who…series weaves a fast-paced yarn that borrows inspiration from The Maltese Falcon, the Dashiell Hammett novel adapted for screen and featuring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade and Casablanca, the movie Bogart is most remembered for.
 Hit Man
by Lawrence Block
Getting inside the mind of a hired killer; except for his profession he’s a nice guy
Hit Man is actually a series of short stories woven together by the main character into the novel form. The premise of the book is simple enough. There is this hit man named Keller—notice how the name insinuates the profession—who works for a man in White Plains, New York. Actually the reader never really gets to know the man, other than through the man’s surrogate, his assistant Dot. It is she who dispatches Keller on his many errand of death.
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