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English
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The best hitman in the world, Seventeen is ordered to find and kill his predecessor, but when the hit goes wrong and the truth of his mission emerges, Seventeen must join forces with his target to defeat their joint enemy--and prevent the deaths of innocent civilians.
Behind the events you know are the killers you dont. When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up. Officially we dont exist, but every government in the world uses our services....
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.
45) Blood simple
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Director's cut ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Marty, the owner of a Texas backwoods bar, hires a man to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend, he opens a door into the criminal world that he'll never be able to shut. The sleazy hit man decides instead to shoot Marty, thereby collecting his unearned fee and eliminating the only person who could implicate him-- or so he thinks.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Disgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run. A wanted man since he jumped ship from the USS Abraham Lincoln, he's sought for questioning in connection to war crimes committed in Yemen by a rogue element in his SEAL team. But his memory of that night--as well as the true fate of his mentor and only friend, Lieutenant Kennedy--is a gaping hole. Finn learns that three members of his team have been quietly redeployed to Iceland, which is a puzzle in itself;...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meryl and Paul Morgan are a highly successful Manhattan couple. Their almost perfect lives have only one notable failure - their dissolving marriage. But they witness a murder and become the targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk them from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely, unless with their new Blackberry-free lives, the Morgans...
48) The winter man
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In Silent Night Man the special government agent Millie has loved from afar for years has vowed to protect her from a hit man. In Sutton's Way Wyoming rancher and single father Quinn Sutton rescues a beautiful city woman with secrets of her own.
50) A perfect murder
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Special ed. ; full frame and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To Manhattan's elite, Wall Street wheeler-dealer Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful, accomplished Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like a perfect murder. It isn't. In fact, very little is what it seems.
51) The burning girl
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Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Some fires never go out... X marks the spot -- and when that spot is a corpse's naked back and the X is carved in blood, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is in no doubt that the dead man is the latest victim of a particularly vicious contract killer. It's morbid and messy -- but it's a mystery with plenty of clues. This is turf warfare between North London gangs. Organized crime boss Billy Ryan is moving into someone else's territory, and that someone...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Loren D. Estleman's most popular characters, PI Amos Walker and hit man Peter Macklin, are together in one story for the first time in Black and White Ball! Detroit hit man Peter Macklin forces private eye Amos Walker to furnish protection for Laurie, Macklin's estranged wife, while Macklin tracks down the party who has threatened to kill her. The man Walker's client suspects cannot be ignored; as his own grown son, Roger Macklin has inherited all...
55) Quarry's blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a true crime novelist announces he's the subject of her next book, Quarry, a professional hitman, must journey into his bloody past to settle old scores as killers come out of the woodwork bent on revenge.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Locke City was a well established center of vice controlled by boss Royal Beaumont. Beaumont took the town by force many years ago and has held it ever since, but now his domain is being threatened by an invading crime syndicate. But in a town where crime and politics are virtually indivisible, there are other players vying for control including a neo-Nazi organization, an IRA unit and a Mafia family. No wonder the FBI has the whole town...
58) Killing rain
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Japanese-American assassin John Rain returns in this new novel of international intrigue. Now employed by the Mossad to fix a "problem" in Manila, John also has a new partner in former Marine sniper Dox. But when John botches an assignment, he finds himself on the run from both the Mossad and the CIA.
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Well past retirement age and feeling his years--but still staying sober one day at a time--Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get...