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The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray woke up in the hospital a month later, he was missing an eye, and his father was dead.Then things started to get bad...

From the incomparable Donald E. Westlake comes a devastating story of betrayal and revenge, exploring the limits of family loyalty and how far a man will go when everything he loves is taken from him.

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Джон только вышел из тюрьмы, а друг уже предлагает ему новое дело. Нужно похитить бесценный изумруд из тщательно охраняемого центра. Все идет как задумано, но появляется охрана и арестовывает сообщника, который… глотает камень! Для Джона освободить коллегу и заполучить камень – дело принципа. Знал бы он, сколько раз ему придется красть этот проклятый изумруд…

В любом ограблении главное – хороший план. И никто лучше Дортмундера этого не знает, ведь именно ему и предстоит составить свой очередной гениальный план для похищения великолепного изумруда. Проблема только в одном – изумруд похоже проклят и одним единственным планом тут не обойтись. Возможно, знай, сколько в итоге придётся поработать, Дортмундер и его команда отказались бы сразу, но слишком уж заманчиво всё выглядело поначалу.

Алена СКРИПКИНА «Я И МОЙ АНГЕЛ» Дональд УЭСТЛЕЙК «ЧАС КИЛЛЕРА»

THE CRIME WAS OVER IN A MINUTE – THE CONSQUENCES LASTED A LIFETIME Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul’s facing steep odds – and a bleak fate if he fails… This final, never-before-published novel by three-time Edgar Award winner Donald E. Westlake is a noir masterpiece, a dark and painful portrait of a man’s struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity.

After a brutal act of violence leaves him suffering devastating memory loss, actor Paul Cole struggles to recover his identity while under the watchful, hostile eye of the police.

All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull thief John Dortmunder into a game he never wanted to play. With no choice, he musters his always-game gang and they set out on a perilous treasure hunt for a long-lost gold and jewel-studded chess set once intended as a birthday gift for the last Romanov czar, which unfortunately reached Russia after that party was over. From the moment Dortmunder reaches for his first pawn, he faces insurmountable odds. The purloined past of this precious set is destined to confound any strategy he finds on the board. Success is not inevitable with John Dortmunder leading the attack, but he's nothing if not persistent, and some gambit or other might just stumble into a winning move.

Артур ТАБОЛОВ «ЧОКНУТЬСЯ С ДЬЯВОЛОМ»

Дональд УЭСТЛЕЙК «БАНК, КОТОРЫЙ БУЛЬКНУЛ»

From the Grand Master of Mystery comes the latest novel featuring the ever-lovable but hapless crook John Dortmunder.
The con is on. The mark is Monroe Hall, a corrupt CEO who lavished more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. The loot? A fleet of vintage automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The catch? Trying to outsmart a collection of angry union men who've been taken for a ride and blue-blooded suckers who've been taken for their family fortunes. But if Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks are to drive off with the loot, they'll have to act fast before they get caught in a deadly crossfire.

- After a year on the lam, the return of bumbling thief Dortmunder is a cause celebre. The author's most recent Dortmunder caper. "The Road to Ruin, and the short story collection, "Thieves' Dozen, received rave reviews in the "New York Times Book Review, New York Daily News, and "Kirkus Reviews (starred review), among other publications.- "Money for Nothing (Mysterious Press, 4/03) and "Put a Lid On It (Mysterious Press, 2002), two stand-alone mysteries, have sold over 68,000 hardcover and paperback copies combined.- Hollywood loves Dortmunder, too. "What's the Worst That Could Happen?, starring Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito, was a major motion picture in 2001.- Donald E. Westlake was named Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master (1993); has won Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Best Novel, Screenplay, and Short Story; and was nominated for an Academy Award* for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Grifters.

Американского писателя-детективиста можно назвать своеобразным биографом преступного мира Нью-Йорка. Приключения, происходящие с героями на страницах его произведений, многообразны и захватывающи. Но в многочисленных схватках, традиционно, всегда побеждает правый.

What, you ask, is a Fred Fitch? Well, for one thing, Fred Fitch is the man with the most extensive collection of fake receipts, phony bills of sale, and counterfeit sweepstakes tickets in the Western Hemisphere, and possibly in the entire world. For another thing, Fred Fitch may be the only New York City resident in the twentieth century to buy a money machine. When Barnum said, "There's one born every minute, and two to take him," he didn't know about Fred Fitch; when Fred Fitch was born, there were two million to take him.
Every itinerant grifter, hypester, bunk artist, short-conner, amuser, shearer, short-changer, green-goods worker, pennyweighter, ring dropper, and yentzer to hit New York City considers his trip incomplete until he's also hit Fred Fitch. He's sort of the con-man's version of Go: Pass Fred Fitch, collect two hundred dollars, and move on.

Dortmunder, longtime partner Andy Kelp, and shysters Fitzroy Guilderpost and Irwin Gabel help exhume the body of a Pottaknobbee native, and replace it with Little Feather's great-grandfather. Little Feather Redcorn, a Las Vegas showgirl, as the last surviving member of the Pottaknobbee tribe, would inherit one-third of the tribal-operated Silver Chasm Casino. Falling from one crisis to the next, the narrative comments on subjects from tourism to modern technology, tribal politics, and the endemic stupidity of the average small-time crook.

Wayne Prentice is a midlist author who must face the hard fact that the world no longer values his work. He has watched a pseudonym, two careers, and his sales disappear and feels like it may be time to quit writing for good. On the other hand, Bryce Proctorr fires out one bestseller after the next and has a multi-million dollar deal for his next book. Unfortunately, his divorce has given him writer's block and Bryce cannot solve his dilemma as his deadline rapidly approaches. So, Bryce proposes a partnership to Wayne: give Bryce his unpublished manuscript and the two of them can split the advance 50/50. There's just one small catch -- Wayne has to put Mrs. Proctorr six feet under.

June 1969, New York. John Dortmunder is approached to carry out a heist by one of his former accomplices, Kelp, an expert in stealing cars. The plan is to take advantage of an African art exhibition to steal its star attraction - an emerald worth half a million dollars - for an obscure African state where the invaluable stone has special importance. Though reluctant to do it and ill-at-ease when meeting the silent partner behind the operation, Dortmunder lets himself be convinced - and starts to recruit the crack team that will nab the emerald...

Сложная интрига, сложные противоречивые герои известного американского автора детективов держат читателя в постоянном напряжении. В первом романе из клиники сбегает опасный и очень хитрый сумасшедший, что приводит к серии кровавых убийств, во втором - двое полицейских вступают в сговор с главарем мафии и… попадают в смертельную ловушку. В книгу также вошли рассказы писателя.

Премия Эдгара Аллана По (часто, премия «Эдгар», англ. Edgar), названная в честь американского писателя Эдгара По, вручается ежегодно ассоциацией «Детективных писателей Америки».
В этот комплект вошли произведения лауреатов этой премии.

Сложная интрига, сложные, противоречивые герои известного американского автора детективов держат читателя в постоянном напряжении. В первом романе из клиники сбегает опасный и очень хитрый сумасшедший, что приводит к серии кровавых убийств (`И только потом пожалели`), во втором двое полицейских вступают в сговор с главарем мафии и... попадают в смертельную ловушку (`Полицейские и воры`). В книгу также вошли рассказы писателя.

Герой романа известной английской писательницы, мастера психологического детектива Рут Ренделл `Заклание волков` полицейский Марк Дрейтон влюбляется в женщину, которая оказывается убийцей.