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The Haul
A Heist Novel
2026
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A professional thief takes the chance of a lifetime when he agrees to mastermind the raid of a tech billionaire’s secret bunker in this action-packed heist thriller set in the heart of contemporary Los Angeles, from master of West Coast noir Gary Phillips. Perfect for fans of Sara Paretsky and Michael Connelly.After years of close calls, O’Conner—the former “Warlord of Willow Ridge”—spends most of his time in semi-retirement, running his legitimate businesses and p...
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- A Harry Ingram Mystery
2027
EN
The case of a missing saxophone spirals into a conspiratorial rabbit hole in the third Harry Ingram book.Los Angeles, 1968. Photojournalist and freelance PI Harry Ingram is on the scene at the East Los Angeles Walkouts, a massive student protest organized by the Brown Berets. There, Ingram is approached by schoolteacher Sabrina Elving to track down a missing saxophone. The valuable instrument was allegedly stolen by her ex-boyfriend.What at first seems like...
Available Jul 6, 2027
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- A Harry Ingram Mystery
2022
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Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting mystery about an African American crime scene photographer seeking justice for a friend—perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos.LOS ANGELES, 1963: Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on th...
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- Switchblade
2009
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Zelmont Raines has slid a long way since his ability to jook, to outmaneuver his opponents on the field, made him a Super Bowl–winning wide receiver, earning him lucrative endorsement deals and more than his share of female attention. But Zee hasn’t always been good at saying no, so a series of missteps involving drugs, a paternity suit or two, legal entanglements, shaky investments, and recurring injuries have virtually sidelined his career.That is until Los Angeles gets a new pro...
2016
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Go ahead, give it a try. Even drawing the simplest things can help relieve stress and make a bad day better. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, because there are no mistakes in art.In this book, you'll learn how to draw people (their faces, their anatomy in full body, and poses), animals (lions), landscapes (flowers, stars), and miscellaneous objects (such as a vase and house).You'll also receive many tips on perspective, depth, lighting, and drawing in general. Using step...
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- An Ivan Monk Mystery
2024
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**The mystery that launched Gary Phillips's career: Black private eye Ivan Monk investigates the murder of a Korean shop owner in the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.This reissued edition features an introduction by Walter Mosley.**In 1992, Los Angeles burned. In the aftermath of the Rodney King beating and subsequent riots, a ground-breaking ceremony at the infamous intersection of Florence and Normandie unearths the body of a Korean shop owner. Black private eye I...
2023
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Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics.Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen stealing bombs, undercover space rangers, aliens occupying Los Angeles, right wing specters haunting the ’hood, masked vigilantes, and mad scientists in their underground lairs plot...
The Obama Inheritance
Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir
2017
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Winner, 2018 Anthony Award for Best Anthology and Winner, Bronze Medal, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Anthologies, Foreword Reviews. Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an over-the-top, transcendental psychedelic thriller ride of pulpy goodness in THE OBAMA INHERITANCE, a collection of fifteen stories of conspiracy noir curated by editor and award-winning African-American crime novelist Gary Phillips. In ...
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- An Ivan Monk Mystery
2024
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Private eye Ivan Monk takes on his most personal mystery to date—and chases answers deep into America’s haunted past.Long ago, Marshall Spears was a hero of the ballpark. In a time when baseball—and the nation—was segregated, he played in the vaunted Negro Leagues. Decades later, Old Man Spears is living out his days as a fixture in a barbershop in South Central.One afternoon, PI Ivan Monk—a shop regular—learns that Spears’s former teammate was Kennesaw Ril...
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- A Harry Ingram Mystery
2024
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**In the follow-up to One-Shot Harry, fearless crime photographer and occasional private eye Harry Ingram finds himself in the LAPD's crosshairs after capturing damning evidence of police brutality.An atmospheric dive into a city on the brink that's brimming with remarkable historical detail, Ash Dark as Night is perfect for fans of Walter Mosley and James Ellroy.**Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood...
The Drug Chronicles
Four Books in One
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- Akashic Drug Chronicles
2018
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A wide range of bestselling and acclaimed writers—from masters of noir to literary lights—explore the milieu of drug culture in this "eye-opening series" ( New York Journal of Books).From Lee Child to William T. Vollmann, Joyce Carol Oates to Sherman Alexie, Eric Bogosian to actor James Franco, many of the finest contemporary writers of fiction weigh in on the lure and destruction of drug use, society's ambiguous relationship to drug culture, and criminal ...
Treacherous
Grifters, Ruffians and Killers
2024
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In this collection, you'll find double crossers getting crossed, two-bit hucksters out to make that one last con, a long-gone revolutionary's fraught homecoming, a heist gone sideways, a dying hitman with explosive secrets, a square john taking a big step out of line, and...zombies crawling from the grave lusting for cocaine.