Books like The Plotters
Raised in a library that fronts for an assassination agency, a Seoul contract killer breaks the rules on a job and becomes a target of the plotters who design the hits.
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Bullet Train
Several assassins with crossing jobs, among them an unlucky one called Ladybug, a pair named Tangerine and Lemon and a schoolboy who is worse than any of them, board the same bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka.
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.
Out
Four women who work the night shift at a Tokyo boxed-lunch factory find their lives bound together when one of them, Yayoi, strangles her abusive husband and Masako, the coolest head among them, agrees to help get rid of the body.
Blacksad
An anthropomorphic cat detective investigates crime in a 1950s American-noir world.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
A small-time criminal in 1970s Boston tries to sell a truckload of stolen guns, and every conversation he has reveals how the underworld really works.
Blacktop Wasteland
Beauregard 'Bug' Montague runs an honest garage in rural Virginia and has left behind the getaway driving that made him a legend. With the garage failing and bills mounting, he agrees to drive for one last job, a jewellery store robbery.
The Winter of Frankie Machine
A retired San Diego hitman with a bait shop and a mortgage discovers that someone in the mob he left is trying to have him killed, and has to walk backwards through his career to figure out who.
Absolute Power
Luther Whitney, an ageing master burglar, is hiding in the vault of a billionaire's Virginia mansion when he watches the President of the United States and his Secret Service agents take part in a woman's death, and then finds himself hunted for what he saw.
Indemnity Only
V. I. Warshawski, a private investigator in Chicago, is hired by a man calling himself John Thayer to find his son's missing girlfriend, and finds the son shot dead in his apartment instead.
Down the River Unto the Sea
Joe King Oliver, a New York detective framed and thrown off the force, now a private investigator, gets a letter that sets him looking into his own case and that of a Black journalist on death row.
March Violets
In Berlin in 1936, with the Olympics about to open, Bernie Gunther, a police detective turned private investigator, is hired by a steel magnate to recover a diamond necklace stolen from the safe of his daughter and son-in-law, who died in a fire.
The Third Man
A writer of cheap westerns arrives in postwar Vienna to find his old friend Harry Lime dead, and a British police officer shows him what Lime was really selling.