Peter Leonard
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 4
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After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County, Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal, Raylan Givens is offered two choices. He can either retire or finish his career on the fugitive task force in the crime-ridden precincts of Detroit.
Acting on a tip, Raylan and his new partner, deputy marshal Bobby Torres arrest Jose Rindo, a destructive and violent criminal. Rindo is also being pursued by the FBI who arrive shortly after he is in custody.
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McCabe, the main character, is a street-tough former semi-pro hockey player from Detroit. He's on a scholarship studying art history in Rome. McCabe crosses paths with a Mafia gang, that, in a case of mistaken identity, is convinced McCabe is Chip Tallenger, his roommate and the son of a wealthy US senator. Using lovely Angela as bait, they kidnap McCabe and demand a ransom. McCabe is eventually freed, but he's been pushed too far and now he's going...
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Shot, dumped in the ocean, and left for dead, Ernst Hess, an SS war criminal, awakens in a Bahamian hospital, thinking God has spared him so he could kill more Jews. As Palm Beach law enforcement gets ready to extradite Hess, a suspect in three homicides, he escapes from the hospital, hijacks a yacht, and returns to Florida. In a bar, Hess meets a Holocaust survivor named Max Hoffman, who bears a striking resemblance to him. Hess assumes Max's identity...
4) Sweet Dreams
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Kate McGraw, the lone female on the US Marshals fugitive task force, is on the trail of homicidal bank robber when she is shot by a drugged-up ex-con. While she is in the hospital recuperating, a mysterious stranger leaves a bouquet of flowers in her room. Days later Kate is discharged. Still recuperating, she sees a man in a car parked on the street watching her apartment. This is the third time she has seen him. Kate gets the license number, follows...
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One of the most riveting and powerful new voices in crime fiction, Peter Leonard delivers a razor-sharp debut thriller.
Kate McCall's husband has been killed by her son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. While Kate struggles with her son's surly guilt, her first love, Jack, an ex-con, reappears, along with a crew of his former "colleagues." While Jack must convince his partners in crime that he really did lose the heist money, his appearance...
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Harry Levin, a Holocaust survivor and scrap metal dealer in Detroit, lives a quiet life until he gets a late night phone call telling him his daughter has been, killed in an automobile accident. Harry goes to Washington DC to claim the body and finds out the other driver is a German diplomat, who was driving drunk. Ernst Hess, the diplomat, is, granted immunity from prosecution. Harry, whose parents were, killed at Dachau, follows Hess to Munich to...
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O'Clair is a former Detroit homicide investigator who now owns a motel in Pompano Beach, Florida in his retirement. When two women are killed, he is reminded of a case he investigated years earlier. He returns to Detroit's homicide department to study his old murder file and see what he may have missed. Then, his girlfriend is kidnapped.
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Detroit, 1971. Harry Levin, scrap metal dealer and holocaust survivor, learns that his daughter has been killed in a car accident. Travelling to Washington DC, he's told by Detective Taggart that the German diplomat, who was drunk, has been released and afforded immunity; he will never face charges. So Harry is left with only one option--to discover the identity of this man, follow him back to Munich and hunt him down. The first of a two-hander,...
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"Jack McCann is a high-stakes Wall Street trader who sneaks into his office early one morning to try and clear out his things and get out of dodge; he knows he's in trouble, deep legal trouble, a fact highlighted by the urgent phone calls from his boss. Outside his office window, Jack hears a booming sound, and then the worst thing imaginable. He works in the World Trade Center, and it is September 11, 2001. His wife in Connecticut, Diane, is visited...
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"Alluding to the Indigenous Australian concept of dreamtime, the novel offers a unique point of view on the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014, through four intertwining narratives: a guilt-ridden doctor trying to exorcise his demons by exposing himself to war; a young woman tending to her ailing father as the bombs fall around them in Russian-occupied Slovyansk; a mysterious sociopath playing a cat-and-mouse game with an ex-lover;...