Thomas Perry
1) The burglar
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From the New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry, "who can be depended upon to deliver high-voltage shocks" (Stephen King), comes a new thriller about an unlikely burglar--a young woman in her 20s--who realizes she must solve a string of murders, or else become the next victim. Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief--with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills,...
2) The old man
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2017.
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To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple driver's licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent...
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"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
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"In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been...
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2020.
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"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den -- the States -- to figure out why the mafia is after him -- again -- and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's...
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Butcher's boy volume Book 1
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EDGAR AWARD WINNER • After a high-level assassination, a professional hitman becomes a target himself and must fight to survive—while evading the government analyst who’s suddenly on his trail—in this “brilliantly plotted thriller” (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Perry.
With an Introduction by Michael Connelly
“Shrewdly planned and executed.”—The...
With an Introduction by Michael Connelly
“Shrewdly planned and executed.”—The...
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"Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both retirees of the LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a handgun, the two couples have little in common--until they are both hired to do damage control on the same murder case. As the book races toward a high-octane climax, the Abels must fend for their own lives as they circle ever closer to the...
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Jane Whitefield fights to save two very different people from a terrifying, cunning murderer in this “terse thriller” (San Francisco Chronicle) from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.
“Compelling . . . Nobody writes a chase better than [Thomas] Perry.”—The Washington Post Book World
Jane Whitefield is the patron saint of the pursued, a Native American “guide”...
“Compelling . . . Nobody writes a chase better than [Thomas] Perry.”—The Washington Post Book World
Jane Whitefield is the patron saint of the pursued, a Native American “guide”...
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The Native American guide is hunted for her knowledge in this "tour de force" thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Vanishing Act (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Jane Whitefield of the Seneca Nation has spent years helping desperate people disappear. But now she is about to become the hunted one. When James Shelby is unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, Jane spirits him out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in...
10) The informant
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"A master class in thriller writing" from the New York Times bestselling author of The Butcher's Boy and Sleeping Dogs (Los Angeles Times). In Thomas Perry's Edgar Award–winning debut The Butcher's Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believes he ever existed. Many years later, the Butcher's Boy finds his peaceful life...
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The butcher's boy volume Book 2
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Former Mafia hit man, after hiding out for ten years in England, is forced to go back to the U.S. after someone tries to kill him and resumes his old profession.
12) Strip
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As an odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, innocent bystander Joe Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war, while the actual thief journeys into territory more strange and violent than he ever imagined.
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Jane Whitefield takes on the mafia—and its money—in this “downright dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review) crime thriller from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.
“A terrifying ride . . . a terrific, pell-mell book.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Even before she heard the teenager’s story, Jane Whitefield’s...
“A terrifying ride . . . a terrific, pell-mell book.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Even before she heard the teenager’s story, Jane Whitefield’s...
14) Vanishing Act
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A disgraced police officer’s request sends Jane Whitefield on a perilous adventure of sacrifice, betrayal, and vengeance—a “gripping” (The Washington Post Book World) novel from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.
“A challenging and satisfying thriller . . . [with] many surprising twists.”—The New York Times
Jane Whitefield is a Native American...
“A challenging and satisfying thriller . . . [with] many surprising twists.”—The New York Times
Jane Whitefield is a Native American...
15) Shadow Woman
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Jane Whitefield inadvertently becomes the target of two professional assassins in this “compelling [and] truly frightening” (Chicago Tribune) thriller from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.
“[Thomas] Perry keeps the screws turned until the final page; suspense novels don’t get much more suspenseful.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jane Whitefield is a name...
“[Thomas] Perry keeps the screws turned until the final page; suspense novels don’t get much more suspenseful.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jane Whitefield is a name...
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The Native American rescue artist goes back on the job in "another excellently engineered thriller" from the New York Times–bestselling mystery author (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on the job, Jane McKinnon, née Whitefield, has settled into the quiet life of a suburban housewife in Amherst, New York. But that all changes when she sees all...
17) Runner
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The New York Times bestselling author "blend[s] the frenetic pacing of a top-notch thriller with Native American mysticism" in Jane Whitefield's return (Publishers Weekly). "The world's foremost specialist in hiding fugitives from their pursuers is back with a vengeance" in this "high-potency thriller" (Kirkus Reviews). For more than a decade, Jane Whitefield practiced her unusual profession: "I'm a guide . . . I show people how to go from places...
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Jane Whitefield must outsmart a savvy doppelganger in this suspense novel of “dazzling ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review) from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.
“The Face-Changers is brilliantly plotted and stylishly executed. Thomas Perry is a true original.”—Jonathan Kellerman
Jane Whitefield, legendary half-Native American shadow guide who spirits...
“The Face-Changers is brilliantly plotted and stylishly executed. Thomas Perry is a true original.”—Jonathan Kellerman
Jane Whitefield, legendary half-Native American shadow guide who spirits...
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When she agrees to help a woman escape a crazed ex-boyfriend who is friends with members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood, rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a wild chase through the Northeast from which only one party -- Jane or her pursuers -- will emerge alive.
20) Hero
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After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.



