Glass Tiger

Swearing off his violent past as a former Ranger and CIA sniper, Brendan Thorne finds himself deported back to the United States, where he is ordered to prevent a mercenary hit man from assassinating the newly elected president.

Literature & Fiction

GORES, Joe

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Brendan Thorne, ex-Ranger, ex-sniper for the CIA, has foresworn violence when his presence is demanded at a top-secret meeting. Halden Corwin, legendary Vietnam sniper and mercenary, has vowed to assassinate the recently elected president of the United States, and the government’s computers have picked Thorne as the most likely person to find Corwin. Special agent Terrill Hatfield’s crack FBI team will take care of the rest. But when the plan doesn’t go as described, Thorne discovers he’s been drawn into a web of lies, ambitions, and double-crosses that will force him to stand and fight. A fast-paced thriller full of stunning revelations, Glass Tiger will leave the reader breathless.

Harper Paperbacks

A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade. Â It’s 1921âseven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon.Â He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn’t do domestic) and hiring a bright young secretary named Effie Perrine.Â When he’s hired by a prominent San Francisco banker to find his missing son, Spade gets the break he’s been looking for.Â He spends the next few years dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, and bumbling cops. He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help bolster the agency, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who holds a long-standing grudge against Spade. And, of course, he’ll fall in loveâthough it won’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames.

Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Alfred.A. Knopf

A wonderfully dark, pitch-perfect noir prequel to The Maltese Falcon, featuring Dashiell Hammett’s beloved detective, Sam Spade. It’s 1921—seven years before Sam Spade will solve the famous case of the Maltese Falcon. He’s just set up his own agency in San Francisco and he gets off to a quick start, working cases (he doesn’t do domestic) and hiring a bright young secretary named Effie Perrine. When he’s hired by a prominent San Francisco banker to find his missing son, Spade gets the break he’s been looking for. He spends the next few years dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, and bumbling cops. He brings in Miles Archer as a partner to help bolster the agency, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. All along, Spade will tangle with an enigmatic villain who holds a long-standing grudge against Spade. And, of course, he’ll fall in love—though it won’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames.

Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Genre Fiction

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A Time of Predators

Otto Penzler and the Mystery Writers of America Present A Time of Predators by Joe Gores, winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First NovelThe gang was restless, just looking for idle fun. They roughed up a man they thought was a homosexual--but their game got out of hand and their victim was blinded.It was Paula Halstead's bad luck to witness the attack and catch a glimpse of one of the boys. After they got through with her, she killed herself.The police have no leads and can't find the culprits. Paula's husband hires a private investigator to do what the police haven't been able to-with no success. Curt Halstead refuses to give up; he will have his vengeance on the men who raped and tortured his wife, even if it means entering into their world of sex, violence, and murder.

Ballantine Books

With only seventy-two hours to find out who attacked his partner, Ballard races through Oakland and San Francisco to track down a stripper, an embezzler, and an ex-con. Reprint.

Dead Skip

Honolulu: Port of Call

Interface

Hammett

From Chinatown's dark alleys to the fog-shrouded Golden Gate, crooked politicians ran San Francisco. To Hammet, retired Pinkerton detective and struggling writer, it was all just grist to his fictional mill. Until the night his pal walked into a baseball bat. Then Hammett hung up his typewriter, put on his gumshoes and went out into the brawling, swaggering city to find the brutal murderer.

With only seventy-two hours to find out who attacked his partner, Ballard races through Oakland and San Francisco to track down a stripper, an embezzler, and an ex-con. Reprint. NYT.

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Glass Tiger

Glass Tiger

Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's THE MALTESE FALCON (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

A Time of Predators

Dead Skip

Honolulu: Port of Call

Interface

Hammett

Dead Skip