The bagmen who transport money for organized crime live by a set of rules: no personal relationships, no ties, no women…and never, ever look inside the bag you’re carrying. Paul Page was the perfect bagman, despite suffering from a rare brain disorder. But that ended the day he saw a beautiful Mob wife become a Mob widow. Now Paul is going to break every rule he’s lived by–even if it means he might be left holding the bag.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.What if the biggest obstacle in your life isn't your circumstances—but the version of yourself you've been repeating for years?Many people live trapped in cycles of overthinking, anxiety, self-doubt, people-pleasing, guilt, and emotional exhaustion. They long for peace, yet their minds never seem to stop racing.The truth is that these patterns are not who you are. They are learned habits—and what has been learned can be ...

THE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: Meet Quarry—an ex-Marine sniper and hired killer with a taste for justice—in this “fast-paced, sexy, violent, and entertaining” series kick-off (BookReporter).The assignment was simple: stake out the man’s home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay.The longest-running series from Max ...

An American smuggler in Egypt finds himself at the mercy of killers, femme fatales, and an escalating revolution—a lost pulp crime novel from one of the legends of the genreLost for more than 60 years and overflowing with political and sexual intrigue, Thieves Fall Out provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of legendary writer Gore Vidal in his formative years. By turns mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal tells the story of a man caught up in events ...

THEY THOUGHT SHE’D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG.It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way…

**"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNALTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION**An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray bullet. Now it’s up to the woman who killed her to investigate the dead woman’s life and pick up its cut-short threads, carrying out a mission of vengeance on her behalf against the man she loved and lost – and the nightclub-singing femme fatale responsible for splittin...

BECAUSE HOMICIDEBEGINS AT HOMEEven the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one -- by expecting trouble.What he didn't expect was ever running i...

The hitman hero of the acclaimed Cinemax series comes out of retirement when his daughter, a true-crime writer, is abducted by the subject of one of her books. A nail-biting suspense thriller from the MWA Grandmaster and author of ROAD TO PERDITION.Someone snatched his daughter. Someone’s going to pay.After nearly 50 years in the killing business, the hitman known as Quarry was enjoying a comfortable retirement – until the grown daughter he only recently me...

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME –20 UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHARLES ARDAI“A MASTER OF THE SHORT STORY.” – STEPHEN KINGSince debuting 20 years ago, Hard Case Crime has won acclaim for publishing the best in hardboiled crime fiction – not least of all the work of founding editor Charles Ardai, which has won the Edgar, Shamus and Ellery Queen Awards, been selected for ‘Best of the Year’ anthologies, and earned praise from...

QUENTIN TARANTINO on NOBODY'S ANGEL: “My favorite fiction novel this year was written by a taxi driver who used to hand it out to his passengers. It’s a terrific story and character study of a cabbie in Chicago during a time when a serial killer is robbing and murdering cabbies. Kudos to Hard Case Crime for publishing Mr. Clark’s book.”TWO KILLERS STALK THE STREETS OF CHICAGO—CAN ONE TAXI DRIVER CORNER THEM BOTH?Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy ...

Has Nolan met his match? MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins’ veteran thief faces off against a cold-blooded femme fatale in this double-length adventure originally published as two complete novels and unavailable in stores for three decades.“Pulp fiction doesn’t get much better.”Sunday TimesSOMETIMES YOU BURY THE PAST.SOMETIMES IT BURIES YOU.Every professional thief knows you never return to the scene of a crime. But what if y...

**One of “The Most Wanted Crime Novels of 2023” — Crimefictionlover.comJoin a heart-racing road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid the cops and criminals hot on their tails.**It’s the summer of ’74…Richard Nixon has resigned from office, CB radios are the hot new thing, and in the great state of Texas two cousins hatch a plan to drive $1 million worth of stolen weed to Idaho, where some lunatic is gearing up to jump Snake R...