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Arthur Abdel Simpson, a small-time crook in Athens, is caught stealing from a client and made to drive a car across the border into Turkey, where the police are waiting with a job of their own.
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The Mask of Dimitrios
Charles Latimer, an English writer of detective stories visiting Istanbul, is shown the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos, a notorious criminal pulled from the Bosphorus, and becomes curious enough to trace the dead man's life across Europe.
First Lie Wins
Evie Porter has the perfect boyfriend and a pleasant life in a small Louisiana town, but Evie Porter is not her real name, and when a woman shows up using the name she was born with, the job she was sent to do starts to unravel.
The Quiller Memorandum
Quiller, a British agent who works alone, takes over the hunt for a neo-Nazi organisation in Berlin after the last man on the job is shot.
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Four strangers swindled out of a million dollars by the same con man team up for an elaborate scheme to get it back.
Slow Horses
Slough House is where MI5 sends the agents whose careers it has ended, to push paper under the slovenly Jackson Lamb, and River Cartwright, exiled there after a botched exercise, sees a chance at redemption when a young man is kidnapped and threatened with a beheading on the internet.
Goldfinger
Bond infiltrates the gold-obsessed criminal Auric Goldfinger's plan to rob Fort Knox, in the quintessential Bond adventure of gadgets, girls, and megalomaniacal villainy.
Harlem Shuffle
A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.
Our Man in Havana
A hapless British vacuum-cleaner salesman in Havana is recruited by MI6 and, with nothing to report, invents a network of agents, with darkly comic and then dangerous consequences.
Citizen Vince
Vince Camden, a former mob guy living in Spokane under witness protection, deals cards and runs a credit card scam, and in the week before the 1980 election realises he can vote for the first time.
God Save the Mark
Fred Fitch, the easiest mark in New York, falls for every con going, and then inherits a fortune from an uncle he never knew, who was murdered.
The Lock Artist
Michael, a young man who hasn't spoken since a childhood trauma, has a gift for opening locks, and it gets him recruited by professional criminals.
The Time Regulation Institute
Hayri İrdal, a man of no particular ability, tells how he came to help run an institute devoted to setting all the clocks of Istanbul to the same time.