<div><P>Another installment in the Murder League, this time ex-detectives Carruthers, Simpson, and Briggs fall prey to inept kidnappers Clarence Alexander and Harold Nishbagel. Of course, the situation is quickly overturned and the captives bring the kidnappers to their knees. It is time for a new brand of justice as these three older Britons take the law into their own hands.</P><BR /></div>

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A Gross Carriage of Justice

<div>Captain Jos&eacute; Da Silva has the daunting task of finding a murderer. Hired by the Brazilian Foreign Office, Da Silva sets out to end these jungle killings, but doesn&rsquo;t quite have all the facts. When Agent Wilson shows him one of the victims&mdash;-not all of him, just his shrunken head&mdash;-Da Silva realizes that this murder case isn&rsquo;t as open-and-shut as it seems. Now he must investigate, evading the powerful magic and numerous mysteries of the Amazon jungle. </div>

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The Shrunken Head

<div>They were the murder league, a group dedicated to committing any murder for anyone. For the small sum of one thousand pounds, the group would perform the killing for whatever the reason&mdash;love, hate, money, fun. All the client had to do was drop a line in their post box and the deal was done. The murder league, three former mystery writers, performs their dispatches with a cool demeanor and the utmost dignity, with only their goal of ten heads on their minds. Soon the spice has returned to their lives, but that is until everything begins to go wrong.<BR /> Join this lovable group of vigilantes as they spiral into a world where committing murder is never as easy as writing about it.<BR /></div>

The Murder League

<div><B>To escape justice, a Secret Service colonel masquerades as a Jewish refugee</B><BR /><BR /> The thousand-year Reich is crumbling, and the Red Army races toward Berlin. As the senior leadership of the Nazi party burns its files and flees the country, Colonel Helmut von Schraeder takes a different approach. After years in charge of the concentration camp at Lublin, he knows the Russians will not spare him. And so he throws away his uniform and asks a plastic surgeon to give him a disguise no one will question: that of a Jew.<BR /><BR /> Schraeder disappears among the men and women he has spent the war torturing. When they are rescued, he is treated as a refugee. In Palestine, he is swept up in the fight for Israeli independence, becoming a hero for a people whom he tried so desperately to destroy. But von Schraeder&rsquo;s past is not finished with him, and as the hate within his soul burns ever brighter, he knows he will have to answer for his crimes. </div>

Pursuit

<div><B>In the diamond fields of South Africa, a London boy makes a fortune</B><BR /><BR /> On a Dutch plantation in South Africa, two bored children are throwing rocks when their mother calls them inside and notices that one of her sons is holding a glittering, uncut diamond. These two children do not know it, but they have changed the course of a continent forever. When word reaches Europe that there are diamonds in South Africa just waiting to be plucked from the ground, men and women of all nations race south to make their fortune. Among them is young Barney Isaacs, a brawling Jewish boy who has dreams of becoming a gentleman&mdash;but who will be lucky to escape with his life.<BR /><BR /> When Barney joins his brother in the diamond fields of Kimberley, they find riches beyond their wildest dreams. But with wealth comes peril, and Barney soon finds that there are those who would kill for diamonds.</div>

Rough Diamond

<div><B>To recover a lost treasure, an American and a Russian face off against a killer</B><BR /><BR /> Berlin is lost, but the Nazis have not given up hope. As their soldiers battle the Red Army for every inch of the capital, a detachment of Russians search the bunker underneath the Berlin Zoo, where Hitler&rsquo;s army stored the finest art treasures of the Reich. The bunker is empty by the time Sergeant Kolenko enters it&mdash;save for a rusted old trunk that holds nothing but gold knickknacks. Kolenko&rsquo;s men don&rsquo;t know it yet, but they have unearthed the treasures of the lost city of Troy.<BR /><BR /> Decades later, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art receives a letter saying that the treasure will be auctioned off. To get her hands on it, she will have to face off against the CIA, the KGB, and a killer who will do anything for gold.</div>

The Gold of Troy

<div><B>A gang of assassins draw Da Silva into Brazil&rsquo;s rugged interior</B><BR /><BR /> George Chaney may have been raised in the roughest neighborhoods of the United States, but he&rsquo;s never been anywhere quite as dangerous as Para&iacute;so. Although booming with petrodollars, this rugged city in the Brazilian wastelands is still a frontier town at heart. On the run from the mob, Chaney comes here in search of sanctuary. He will find that though the city&rsquo;s name means <I>paradise</I>, its reality is much closer to hell.<BR /><BR /> Chaney is found gunned down execution style, with a tag around his neck that reads <I>Esquadr&atilde;o de Morte</I>&mdash;death squad. He&rsquo;s the fourth victim of this gang of killers, and his death attracts the attention of Captain Jos&eacute; Da Silva, an Interpol detective who knows that life is cheap on the Brazilian frontier, and death comes in many forms.</div>

Trouble in Paradise

<div><B>When you need something stolen, smuggled, or made to disappear, Kek Huuygens is your man</B><BR /><BR /> In the aftermath of World War II, young couples stroll through Brussels, but they do not speak of love. Instead, they might talk about papers, passports, or relocation&mdash;and most of all, they speak of currency. As Europe rebuilds itself, fortunes are made and lost in hours, and money is worthless until it is converted into dollars.<BR />  <BR /> When Kek Huuygens, a Polish-born smuggler lurking among the Brussels cocktail set, hears that a wealthy industrialist is desperate to convert $5 million of Belgian francs into American currency, he offers to help. For $1 million, he will liberate the man&rsquo;s fortune. All the magnate has to do is let Kek steal it.<BR />  <BR /> In these seven elegant short stories, Kek battles customs agents and police across Western Europe. For this dapper Pole, there is no object too large to smuggle&mdash;so long as the price is right.<BR /></div>

Kek Huuygens, Smuggler

<div><B>A quartet of kidnappers make the mistake of hiring Da Silva as their driver</B><BR /><BR /> Chico Xavier needs cash. His father has cut off his allowance, and for a university student with expensive taste&mdash;and an even more expensive girlfriend&mdash;this is a death sentence. And so he and his friends arrange to kidnap one of their school chums: a fellow dilettante who lets himself be taken in exchange for a cut of the ransom. Two days of criminal behavior, Chico thinks, and they&rsquo;ll all live happily ever after&mdash;or die in the Rio sand.<BR /><BR /> To store the victim of their faked kidnapping, Chico&rsquo;s girlfriend pays a taxi driver for the use of his house. But the driver is no ordinary cabbie&mdash;he is Captain Jos&eacute; Da Silva of Interpol. He can&rsquo;t tell if Chico&rsquo;s scheme will turn out to be tragedy or farce, and so he plays along, hoping to save the kidnappers from themselves.</div>

The Xavier Affair

<div><B>In search of a missing treasure, Da Silva returns to an old case</B><BR /><BR /> Off the island of Barbados, the crew of a Brazilian ocean liner strains to hear the sounds of Carnival coming from shore. A small boat pulls alongside, and a band of steel drummers offer to play for them. As they make their rounds on the ship, the bandleader slips away. He pistol whips one of the crew, forcing him to open the ship&rsquo;s safe, and escapes before the song has ended, taking half a million dollars in gems with him.<BR /><BR /> The Brazilian police send young detective Jos&eacute; Da Silva to investigate the robbery. He captures the thieves but never recovers the jewels. Fifteen years later, three of the gang&rsquo;s members have died in prison, and the fourth is due for release. Da Silva follows him back to Barbados, hoping the thief will lead him to the long-forgotten treasure&mdash;and a final solution to the case that started his career.</div>

The Green Hell Treasure

<div><B>Back from the brink of death, Homes tackles eleven baffling mysteries in his own peculiar style</B><BR /><BR /> When Dr. Watney last saw Schlock Homes, the great detective was flinging himself over a waterfall. Since then, Watney has lived quietly at 221B Bagel Street, mourning the death of the most unique detective the world had ever known. That all changes on the day Homes comes back from the dead. His fall was just a ruse, he announces, and it is time to get back to work. In such classic tales as &ldquo;The Adventure of the Hansom Ransom&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Adventure of the Big Plunger,&rdquo; Homes and Watney chase the most ingenious criminals of the age&mdash;and never come close to catching them.<BR /><BR /> These immaculate pastiches of the great detective&rsquo;s adventures are far more than mere parody. In Schlock Homes, Robert L. Fish has created a character for the ages: a detective who understands that brilliance means knowing you&rsquo;re right&mdash;even if the whole world disagrees.</div>

The Memoirs of Schlock Homes

<div><B>A lawyer agrees to defend an ex-baseball prospect accused of murder</B><BR /><BR /> In 1964, nineteen-year-old Billy Dupaul was on his way to stardom. A modest farm boy with a lightning fastball, he had just signed a record contract with the New York Mets when a single gunshot changed his life forever. Dupaul went down on an attempted murder rap, and the Mets washed their hands of him. Eight years later, the man he was said to have shot drops dead when a shard of bullet works its way into his brain. After eight summers in Attica, Billy is about to be tried for murder.<BR /><BR /> After throwing him to the wolves in 1964, the vice president of the Mets shows surprising interest in the case and hires Hank Ross, one of the toughest defense attorneys in Manhattan, to save the boy from the chair. It&rsquo;s an impossible assignment, and Ross will find the case has more bite than any big-league curve.</div>

A Handy Death

<div><B>A traveler is murdered in Rio for the sake of a stuffed snake</B><BR /><BR /> The man in white has money to fly, but he boards a bus instead. It takes hours for the rickety old bus to snake down the Brazilian coast, and the man arrives in Rio de Janeiro well after midnight. He is on his way to make his fortune when he spots the killers following him and knows is life is through.<BR /><BR /> A few hours after dawn, the man in white is brought to the city morgue&mdash;another anonymous corpse to be inspected by Captain Jos&eacute; Da Silva, liaison between Interpol and the Brazilian police. Da Silva knows he is on to something when he opens the package the man left at his hotel just before the killers caught up to him. In it is a stuffed coral snake, a bizarre sight that does not faze the detective. Da Silva knows that on a late night in Rio, even dead snakes can kill.</div>

Isle of the Snakes

<div><B>Twelve loving parodies of the great detective&mdash;each a masterpiece in its own right</B><BR /><BR /> The world-famous amateur detective Schlock Homes is making his way through breakfast when a telegram arrives. It takes but a moment&rsquo;s deduction for the brilliant sleuth to determine that it was sent by a woman named Miss Wimpole, and that she is terribly upset. Homes knows this because the telegram reads, &ldquo;I am terribly upset,&rdquo; and is signed, &ldquo;Miss Wimpole.&rdquo; Miss Wimpole brings a case that stretches from the tombs of Egypt to the deserts of Mexico, with a stop at the racetrack in between, and it is but the first misadventure in this riotous collection of tales.<BR /><BR /> Whether chasing a counterfeit sovereign or an &ldquo;Adam Bomb,&rdquo; Schlock Homes and Dr. Watney never fail to have a marvelous time&mdash;even if they don&rsquo;t quite catch their man.</div>

The Incredible Schlock Homes

<div><B>A fraud case leads Da Silva on a wild search across Brazil</B><BR /><BR /> It&rsquo;s snowing in New York, and Jimmy Martin is pleading for his life. He owes a loan shark $100,000, but he knows he will make his fortune if he can just hop a plane to Brazil. The lender gives him a thirty-day extension, and Jimmy is on his way. But he will find Brazil a better place in which to end a life than to save one.<BR /><BR /> Interpol detective Jos&eacute; Da Silva has seen many schemers undone by Brazil. Jimmy Martin leaves the United States clutching a fistful of bearer bonds&mdash;some of which belong to the Brazilian government&mdash;and Da Silva is waiting with handcuffs when his plane arrives. But there&rsquo;s no sign of Martin. He slipped off in Recife, disappearing into the country&rsquo;s vast interior. If he is lucky, Da Silva will find him before the jungle takes its toll.</div>

Brazilian Sleigh Ride

<div><B>A search for an American&rsquo;s missing brother draws Da Silva into the jungle</B><BR /><BR /> In a blighted stretch of the Amazon, three men have come to blow up a bridge. Just before they complete their mission, one of them turns on the others, gunning one down and burying the other with the force of the explosion. He is stepping into his getaway plane when he notices that the first man&rsquo;s body is gone. It doesn&rsquo;t matter, he thinks. An injured man could not last a day in the jungle.<BR /><BR /> When a daffy young American comes to Rio de Janeiro in search of her missing brother, Captain Jos&eacute; Da Silva does his best to stay out of it. But when her search draws her into the mystery of the bridge that went nowhere, Da Silva will have to risk a jungle expedition of his own to save her life.</div>

The Bridge That Went Nowhere

<div><B>To protect a witness, a loose cannon of a cop takes on the whole mob</B><BR /><BR /> Clancy doesn&rsquo;t care that the shooter is a witness in an important trial. All he knows is that the guy has a gun&mdash;and no one pulls a gun on Lieutenant Clancy of the NYPD. Shooting the state&rsquo;s witness earns Clancy a transfer to the backwater 52nd Precinct. To get his career on track, he is forced to accept a humiliating assignment: babysitting mob kingpin Johnny Rossi while he waits to testify before the crime commission. When a thug guns Rossi down in his hotel room, Clancy suspects the killer had a man inside. He will bring fiery justice to those responsible, whether the rats are in the mafia or in City Hall.<BR />  <BR /> The inspiration for the Steve McQueen film <I>Bullitt</I>, this novel has all the tension and excitement of a classic.<BR /></div>

Bullitt

<div><B>Edgar Award winner: A Holocaust survivor fights a Nazi conspiracy in the jungles of Brazil</B><BR /><BR /> In 1939 Erick Von Roesler was spreading Hitler&rsquo;s gospel in Brazil when duty to the Reich called him home. He distinguished himself during the war, organizing slave labor camps, overseeing executions, and manning the gas chambers of Buchenwald, but in 1945 he felt it necessary to leave the land of his birth. His enthusiasm for the German cause undimmed, he returned to South America to remake the continent in the image of the fallen Reich.<BR /><BR /> For help, he calls on Hans Busch, a master propagandist who comes south from New York with $2 million earmarked for the Nazi revival. But this squat, unkempt little man is not the Nazi he claims to be. Hans Busch is merely a nom de guerre for Holocaust survivor Ari Schoenberg, who has come to take his revenge. With the help of Interpol&rsquo;s Jos&eacute; Da Silva, he will dismantle the new Reich from the inside out.</div>

The Fugitive

<div><B>A small-town sheriff investigates a bizarre disappearance in this Edgar Award&ndash;winning short story</B><BR /><BR /> Nobody could blame Charley Crompton for wanting to kill his wife. For years, she&rsquo;s made his life hell, but poor old Charley has always been too meek to stand up for himself. One night they have a terrible fight, loud enough for Mrs. Williams next door to hear every word, and the argument is followed by eerie silence. The next thing Mrs. Williams knows, Charley is digging up the peach tree in his backyard and burying it again. When Mrs. Crompton doesn&rsquo;t reappear, Mrs. Williams has only one thought on her mind: Mrs. Crompton has been murdered.<BR /><BR /> When the local sheriff knocks on the Cromptons&rsquo; door, Charley answers holding a bloody ax. As the circumstantial evidence piles up, the police are forced to decide: Is Charley Crompton a cold-blooded killer? Or has he simply lost his mind?</div>

Moonlight Gardener

<div><B>At an international summit, Da Silva searches for an assassin</B><BR /><BR /> Off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, a freighter battles the waves. The steward has been stricken with appendicitis, but the sea is too rough for the ship to dock. A coast guard helicopter brings him to shore, where he is put in an ambulance and rushed the hospital. But when the ambulance arrives, the patient has disappeared. He was never sick, and he is not a sailor. He is an assassin, and he&rsquo;s vanished into thin air.<BR /><BR /> The Organization of American States is holding a summit in Rio, and Argentinian representative Juan Dorcas is planning an incendiary speech. When Interpol liaison Jos&eacute; Da Silva hears whispers that Dorcas will be assassinated before he has a chance to speak, his thoughts turn to the sailor who jumped ship, to commit a murder that will rock a hemisphere.</div>

Always Kill a Stranger

<div><B>To keep his wife in furs, a smuggler sneaks a painting across the Spanish frontier</B><BR /><BR /> It is 1948, and few in Belgium live comfortably enough to haggle over payment&mdash;particularly those who make their living outside the law. Kek Huuygens is an exception. As far as his wife knows, this dapper gentleman is an art appraiser who moves in the finest circles. But although Kek knows all there is to know about art, he does not appraise it. He moves it&mdash;from one thief to another. Kek is the finest smuggler in Europe, and he charges accordingly. After all, his wife has expensive taste.<BR />  <BR /> A miniature masterpiece by the Dutchman Frans Hals has gone missing from Sotheby&rsquo;s. Kek has twenty-four hours to move it from Brussels to Madrid, avoiding all the police of Western Europe and a murderous thief who feels he has been double crossed. The job will make him a fortune&mdash;if he survives long enough to collect it.<BR /></div>

Whirligig

<div><B>A New York cop goes after an escaped prisoner with murder on his mind</B><BR /><BR /> For a hit-and-run with a stolen car, Lenny Cervera bought himself five to ten in Sing Sing. When his sentence comes down, this two-bit thug vows revenge on everyone who helped put him there. He swears to kill the judge, the district attorney, and the cop who cuffed him: Lieutenant Clancy, the toughest detective in the NYPD. But Clancy pays him no mind. Every hood talks tough when he&rsquo;s going up river, but Sing Sing always breaks them down. Clancy has no idea that Lenny Cervera is about to arrange an early release.<BR />  <BR /> Four convicts bust out of the prison in a provision truck and are speeding through Ossining when a local cop stops them. The encounter leaves one con dead, another injured, and the cop clinging to life. Lenny Cervera gets away. Clancy knows Cervera is coming for him. He will be waiting with a gun.<BR /></div>

The Quarry

<div><B>A quartet of killings threaten to derail Lieutenant James Reardon&rsquo;s relationship&mdash;and end his life</B><BR /><BR /> Jan has been dating James Reardon long enough to know that she wants to be with him forever, but she will not marry him as long as he&rsquo;s a cop. She has spent too many nights lying awake, afraid that this will be the case that gets him killed, and she cannot make that her whole life. But she and Reardon both know that death is the only thing that could make him take off his badge&mdash;and for this hard-boiled San Francisco detective, death may come sooner than he thinks.<BR />  <BR /> It starts with a stabbing in the Embarcadero. A particularly sleazy bartender has gotten knifed in the gut, and he is dead before the cops arrive. Three more killings follow, and each time the victim is one of the city&rsquo;s worst criminals. Is it a vendetta, or a vigilante? Reardon will risk his life to find out.<BR /><BR /> The Gremlin&rsquo;s Grampa <I>is the 2nd book in the Lieutenant Reardon Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

The Gremlin's Grampa

<div><B>To stop a crime wave, a San Francisco cop investigates a ring of smugglers</B><BR /><BR /> Homicide lieutenant James Reardon is raising a martini to his lips when the call comes in from headquarters. He is late for a meeting and the chief is furious. The cocktail, and Reardon&rsquo;s girlfriend, will have to wait. The meeting is a waste of time&mdash;a federal agent repeating platitudes about the dangers of drug smuggling&mdash;and Reardon is grateful when a call comes in on the radio, requesting his presence at the scene of a fatal traffic accident. He assumes it will be routine, but Lieutenant Reardon is in for an evening of agony.<BR />  <BR /> The driver claims that he was only going fifteen miles an hour when the victim stepped off the curb. Reardon doesn&rsquo;t buy it. And when he learns the dead man had just gotten off a ship from Southeast Asia, he realizes that the federal agent was right: Smuggling is a murderous business.<BR /><BR /> Reardon <I>is the 1st book in the Lieutenant Reardon Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

Reardon

<div><B>To repay a wartime debt, a master smuggler ventures out into the open in this Edgar Award&ndash;nominated short story</B><BR /><BR /> The customs agent&rsquo;s eyes go wide when he reads the passport. It is Kek Huuygens, the notorious smuggler who has grown rich making border guards look like fools. Today he is returning from Switzerland, a box of chocolates packed in his briefcase. The guard confiscates the chocolates, which he is certain must contain diamonds, but he lets Huuygens keep the wrapper as proof of his purchase. Huuygens resists the urge to smile, for the wrapper contains a priceless piece of sheet music, written in Bach&rsquo;s own hand. He has beaten them once again.<BR />  <BR /> He is toasting his triumph when a call comes through from Lisbon: an old friend from the war, when Huuygens waged guerilla warfare against the Nazis. The call leads to a peculiar reunion, and a chance for a coup that will remind every border agent in Europe why he curses the name Kek Huuygens.</div>

The Hochmann Miniatures

<div><B>Kek Huuygens is hired to smuggle a suitcase that could change the destiny of Buenos Aires</B><BR /><BR /> Andr&eacute; Martins remembers Kek Huuygens as he once was: wily, rugged, and desperate. But when he comes to pay his old friend a surprise visit, he finds Huuygens living in one of the most luxurious apartments in Paris. What&rsquo;s more, Huuygens has a bottle of wine open on the table, for he was expecting his visitor before Martins ever had the idea to come. Kek Huuygens is a smuggler&mdash;the best in the world&mdash;and smugglers cannot afford to be surprised.<BR />  <BR /> A mutual friend has made a most unusual score: stealing a suitcase full of the original Spanish deeds to Buenos Aires. In the right hands, they are worth a fortune, but first they must be returned to Spain&mdash;and only Huuygens can get them there. He will do it as he does everything: with wit, style, and a firm grip on the element of surprise.</div>

The Tricks of the Trade

<div><B>A reckless bet in a New York club draws Kek Huuygens into a deadly game</B><BR /><BR /> As rain pummels Manhattan, two men play blackjack in one of New York&rsquo;s most exclusive clubs. After an evening of comfortable low-stakes play, Kek Huuygens makes an outlandish bet: $10,000 on the next hand. He can afford it. The most accomplished smuggler in Europe, Huuygens never makes a bet unless he is sure to win. He is a lucky man, but his luck is about to be tested.<BR />  <BR /> In the shadows, Victor Girard&mdash;a French gangster who gambles not just with money, but with people&rsquo;s lives as well&mdash;watches him place the bet. Like his opponent, Girard prefers sure things. He knows Huuygens&rsquo; reputation, and offers him $50,000 to bring a certain priceless item through United States customs. Huuygens has made a career humiliating border agents, but he will find that Americans are not so easy to fleece&mdash;and that this is a wager that he cannot afford to lose.</div>

The Wager

<div><B>On a transatlantic cruise, three elderly gentlemen have the adventure of a lifetime</B><BR /><BR /> When the captain of the <I>SS Sunderland</I> sees the three grey-haired passengers, he does not expect them to cause any trouble. He is mistaken. If he knew how much trouble they will cause, he&rsquo;d likely leap over the railing and swim for shore. Carruthers, Simpson, and Briggs are three of the most dangerous men in the world. Founders of the British Mystery Writers Club, they were once well-known authors of detective fiction. But recently, their business has shifted from writing about murders to committing them.<BR />  <BR /> As members of the Murder League, the men are willing to kill any man on earth for the price of $1,000, and kill him in style. The <I>Sunderland</I> is in for a very blood crossing, and there will be plenty of work for the Murder League.</div>

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

<div><B>In the roughest precinct in New York, one cop tries to hold back the flood of crime</B><BR /><BR /> It&rsquo;s a lovely autumn in the Big Apple, and the weather is perfect for trouble. Over the weekend, a teenage gang rumbled on the playground, leaving a fifteen year-old stabbed and a younger boy beaten half to death; a high-speed chase left one dead and two badly injured; and a fire in a tenement killed two&mdash;and the police found the arsonist standing outside, relishing his handiwork. It was a beautiful weekend in the city, and every deadly incident found its way across the police blotter of the Fifty-Second Precinct and into the hands of Lieutenant Clancy.<BR />  <BR /> One of the hardest detectives on the force, Clancy will be tested with everything from a recluse&rsquo;s murder to an assassination attempt at the United Nations this fall. It may be his job, but it is never routine.</div>

Police Blotter

<div><B>To save a fellow cop, a detective is asked to free a hardened thug </B><BR /><BR /> For most of his life, Pop Holland has carried a .38 revolver. This afternoon, when he retired from the San Francisco police department, he said goodbye to the gun forever. But when he steps into his car on the way to his retirement party, he feels the familiar shape of a .38 pressed to his neck. The gun cuts into his skin, and blood runs down his back. Another man gets into the car, handcuffs Holland&rsquo;s hands and feet, and takes him into the night.<BR />  <BR /> A half hour later, homicide lieutenant James Reardon sips cognac, waiting for Pop to arrive at the party. The phone rings, and the kidnappers whisper the news: They have Pop, and he will be dead by morning if Reardon disobeys their instructions. They are willing trade Holland for one of their own, a criminal who deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars. To save one life, Reardon must contemplate putting countless others at risk.<BR /><BR /> Deadline: 2 A.M. <I>is the 4th book in the Lieutenant Reardon Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

Deadline: 2 A.M.

<div><B>Lieutenant James Reardon hunts for a gang of killers terrorizing San Francisco&rsquo;s banks</B><BR /><BR /> The men enter the Jerold Avenue branch of the Farmers &amp; Mercantile Bank wearing matching suits, hats, and plastic masks. They demand cooperation, and their machine guns ensure that they get it. Less than three minutes after they enter, they leave, their bags bulging with the shipyard payroll. A passing cop tries to stop them, emptying his revolver as they peel away, and catches a bullet in the heart for his trouble. This is the gang&rsquo;s first job in San Francisco, and it has been baptized with blood.<BR />  <BR /> Taking the criminals down falls to homicide lieutenant James Reardon, who has never encountered such determined thieves. The gunmen leave no trace behind, but witness testimonies suggest there may have been an inside man. To break up the gang, Reardon will have to follow them across the country, and put his neck on the line.<BR /><BR /> Bank Job <I>is the 3rd book in the Lieutenant Reardon Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

Bank Job

<div><B>A peculiar diamond sale pits Captain Jos&eacute; Da Silva against his cousin</B><BR /><BR /> It is an ancient scam: Offer a wealthy American a massive diamond for a bargain price, have a jeweler confirm the stone is genuine, and swap it for a fake as soon as the money changes hands. At first, Captain Jos&eacute; Da Silva assumes Senator Hastings has been taken in by an ordinary conman, but the diamond is all too real. There is a more elaborate con in progress here, and only one man in Rio would be daring enough to execute it. He is Da Silva&rsquo;s cousin Nestor, and he is a true genius of crime.<BR />  <BR /> According to Nestor&rsquo;s scheme, the senator was supposed to sail that afternoon on the <I>Bolivar</I>, along with three other targets of the plot. But Senator Hastings deviated from the plan and left the boat at the last minute, which means Da Silva still has a chance to set things right&mdash;assuming he&rsquo;s quick enough to outwit his own flesh and blood.</div>

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