Books like Dog Soldiers
John Converse, a writer in Saigon, arranges to smuggle three kilos of heroin to California, and the man he sends with it, Ray Hicks, finds that someone is waiting for him.
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Inherent Vice
A pot-smoking private investigator in 1970 Los Angeles searches for his ex-girlfriend and stumbles into a conspiracy involving real estate developers, heroin smugglers, and the death of the 1960s.
The Neon Rain
Fishing in a bayou outside New Orleans, Detective Dave Robicheaux finds the body of a young woman in the water, and when he refuses to let the case go, he is warned off by people from both sides of the law.
Savages
Two Laguna Beach marijuana entrepreneurs share a girlfriend and a business until a Mexican cartel takes her to force a merger, and the two boys calmly start a war.
Highways to a War
Mike Langford, an Australian combat photographer, disappears in Cambodia in 1976, and his oldest friend pieces his story together from the tapes he left behind.
Beast in View
Helen Clarvoe, a rich, reclusive woman living alone in a Los Angeles hotel, gets a phone call from a stranger, Evelyn Merrick, who seems to know everything about her.
The Black Echo
LAPD detective Harry Bosch recognises the body found in a drainage pipe near the Mulholland Dam as Billy Meadows, who fought beside him as a tunnel rat in Vietnam, and the case leads to a bank vault robbed from below the city and an uneasy partnership with FBI agent Eleanor Wish.
Silent Joe
Joe Trona, scarred as a baby when his father threw acid in his face, works as a deputy in Orange County and as bodyguard to the county supervisor who adopted him, until the man is shot dead in front of him.
The Galton Case
Lew Archer is hired by the lawyer of Maria Galton, a rich and dying old woman, to find her son Anthony, who ran off with a girl more than twenty years ago and was never heard from again.
The Chill
Lew Archer is hired by Alex Kincaid, a young man whose bride, Dolly, walked out the day after their wedding, and finds that Dolly was a witness in a murder case years before.
Rabbit, Run
Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, a former high-school basketball star now selling kitchen gadgets in a Pennsylvania town, walks out on his pregnant wife and young son one evening and keeps driving.
Black Cherry Blues
Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans cop grieving his murdered wife, runs a bait shop in New Iberia with his adopted daughter, until an old friend draws him into trouble with oil men and the mob.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A journalist and his attorney tear through Las Vegas in a drug-fuelled search for the American Dream at the death of the 1960s.