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CIS: Rogue Male revisited

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Geoffrey Household’s most famous novel is a period piece that exerts such a powerful grip on the contemporary reader it may well be the best crime thriller to be published in 2014. Rogue Male was reissued this summer to mark the book’s 75th anniversary. Twelve…
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Kill Your Boss

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In addition to a title that’s hard to resist, Kill Your Boss has an excellent premise behind it. What if a hired killer could nestle within a company as an unpaid intern, biding his time until the right moment arrives to execute a high-paid executive?…
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Kill Your Boss by Shane Kuhn

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John Lago is not your average intern. He’s actually a highly trained stone cold contract killer who infiltrates multinational corporations and government agencies to eliminate heavily guarded executives for Human Resources Inc, his shady employer. The FBI believes HR Inc is responsible for the deaths…
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The Wrong Quarry

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Written by Max Allan Collins — One of America’s leading modern pulp crime authors, Max Allan Collins has been writing Quarry stories since back in 1976. The series began with The Broker, and the most recent one was 2010’s Quarry’s Ex. Now, the hitman hero/anti-hero…
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NTN: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs

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There’s a new kid in town, crime fans, and his name is Roger Hobbs. Right out of the gate, his debut novel – the smart, high-octane thriller Ghostman – has already nabbed him the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association. It’s unusual…
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Interview: JB Turner

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Launched earlier this year, Exhibit A Books is an independent imprint bringing together a stable of up-and-coming crime authors working in popular areas of crime fiction, but aiming to bring something a little different to the shelf. One of them is the Edinburgh writer JB…
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The Distinguished Assassin

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Written by Nick Taussig — While reading this novel about life in Stalin’s Soviet Russia, I was reminded very strongly of Solzhenitsyn’s book The Gulag Archipelago. This is deliberate, as the author has explained on his blog. As a postgraduate student of Russian literature in London,…
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