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Stieg Larsson (2010) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Complex, satisfying, intelligent, extraordinary! Stieg Larsson's last thriller before his early death.
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Stieg Larsson (2009) The Girl Who Played With Fire. Part 2 of the Millennium Trilogy. [Audio Book] Crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist and weird Lisbeth Salander once again team up to hunt down a sinister criminal enterprise. Larsson's second break-out-in-a-cold-sweat thriller is smart and crackles with stunning twists.
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Stieg Larsson (2009) The Girl Who Played With Fire. Crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist and weird Lisbeth Salander once again team up to hunt down a sinister criminal enterprise. Larsson's second break-out-in-a-cold-sweat thriller is smart and crackles with stunning twists.
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John Le Carré (2004) Absolute Friends. LeCarré is mad about what he sees as a fraudulent and unnecessary war in Iraq. The hero in his up-to-date novel, Ted Mundy, is an idealistic out-of-business spy from the Cold War era. He is hired by a mysterious benefactor to counter the widespread propaganda on behalf of an Iraqi war. Even if you don't like LeCarré's political slant, his writing is first class.
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John Le Carré (2005) The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. In Le Carré's first masterpiece Alec Leamas, a British agent in early Cold War Berlin, is responsible for keeping the double agents under his care undercover and alive. When the East Germans start killing them, Leamas is sent deep into Communist territory to find out why. But nothing is quite what it seems. "The finest spy story ever written" (Graham Green).
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Harper Lee (1988) To Kill a Mocking Bird. First published in 1960, the novel is a classic. It is set in Maycomb, a fictional representation of Monroeville, Alabama. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and within two years sold more than five million copies in 13 countries. Shame on you, if you have not read "the best novel of the century" (Library Journal).
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Don Lee (2004) Country of Origin. Lisa Countryman, a half-Japanese, half-black Berkeley graduate student goes to Japan for her dissertation research, but ends with a job as a hostess girl at a Tokyo men's club. When she disappears, Tom Hurley, lazy junior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy and police detective Kenzo Ota investigate the case, which leads them into the heart of Tokyo's nightlife.
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Dennis Lehane (2009) Shutter Island. (Reprint) Shutter Island is an army facility turned hospital for the criminally insane. When a patient escapes, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are called in to investigate. This is one of the best psychological thrillers of all time. One mind-bending plot twist after another!
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Dennis Lehane (2003) Shutter Island. [Audio Book] After his Mystic River (2001), Lehane returned with another blistering page turner about a hospital for the criminally insane.
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Dennis Lehane (2010) Prayers for Rain. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie, Angela Gennaro and their gun-toting friend Bubba Rogowski investigate the death of a former client.
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