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Marcus Sakey
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Brilliant dialog and plotting make this thriller one of the best. Four thirty-something friends--bartender Alex, two other guys and Jenn, meet each week at Alex's bar. His boss, creep Johnney Love. has a get rich scheme involving drugs and dirty money--lots of both. They all know better but decide to steal the money with a perfect plan. It works: they get the money but someone gets killed and they end up with drugs belonging to the smartest, most vicious psychopath you've ever met. It's all downhill from there.
Full Series List in Order
Brilliance Trilogy
1 - Brilliance (Jul-2013)2 - A Better World (Jun-2014)
3 - Written in Fire (Jan-2016)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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The Blade Itself
- Jan-2007
- / Mystery
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Danny Carter thought he was safe in his new life until his old one came looking for him. In the working-class Irish neighborhood of Chicago where he grew up, you were only as strong as the reputation you built. Danny and his best friend Evan built th...
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At the City's Edge
- Feb-2008
- / Suspense
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Jason Palmer loved being a soldier. But after returning home from Iraq with an "other than honorable" discharge, he's finding rebuilding his life the toughest battle yet. Elena Cruz is a talented cop, the first woman to make Chicago's prestigious Ga...
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Good People
- Aug-2008
- / Thriller
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The spectacular Dutton debut of a thriller writer whose ecstatically acclaimed work draws comparisons to luminaries such as Elmore Leonard, George Pelecanos, and Dennis Lehane A family, and the security to enjoy it: that's all Tom and Anna Reed ev...
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The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away
- Jun-2009
- / Thriller
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Prepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this Thriller Short, bestselling author Marcus Sakey tells the tale of Cooper and ...
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The Amateurs
- Aug-2009
- / Thriller
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The new novel from "the electric jolt American crime fiction needs." (Dennis Lehane) Four friends take on a risky opportunity to steal a fortune in dirty money. But in this game, any misstep carries lethal consequences-and these four rank amateurs ar...
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As Breathing
- Jul-2010
- / Thriller
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Sammy’s the planner, good with electronics, surveillance, computers. Billy Dexter is the point man, the finisher. For years they were the most sought-after hit team in the country.Until Dex stopped killing.But when the woman he loves is in troubl...
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Gravity and Need
- Jul-2010
- / Thriller
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After you have sex with a total stranger on top of a three-thousand dollar television, what you’re supposed to do is zip up, exchange fake numbers, and never see each other again.But for two people who prefer for life and love to have an edge, that...
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No Turning Back
- Nov-2010
- / General Fiction
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Alex is failing as a father. Ian keeps dangerous secrets. Jenn wants adventure. Mitch wants Jenn. Four friends just scraping by, finding comfort in each other and the hope that things will get better. But as their twenties fade in the rear-view mirro...
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The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes
- Jun-2011
- / Thriller
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Marcus Sakey returns with his most ambitious novel, a captivating story of love and memory, where the only thing more frightening than the questions are the answers. A man wakes up naked and cold, half-drowned on an abandoned beach. The only sign ...
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Accelerant
- Jun-2013
- / Thriller
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Chicago is burning. A rash of arsons decimates the city, especially the gang-ravaged south side. Newly home from Iraq and still reeling from his “other than honorable" discharge, Jason Palmer wants nothing to do with the violence in his neighborho...
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Brilliance
- Jul-2013
- / Thriller
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In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’r...
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A Better World
- Jun-2014
- / Thriller
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The brilliants changed everything. Since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we’d only dreamed of. The ability to sense a person’s most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. For thirty years the w...
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Written in Fire
- Jan-2016
- / Thriller
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For thirty years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we tried to avoid a devastating civil war. We failed. The White House is a smoking ruin. Madison Square Garden ...
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Scar Tissue
- Oct-2016
- / General Fiction
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An anthology of seven short stories: “The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away” (nominated for Thriller and Macavity Awards) “The Days When You Were Anything Else” “No One” “Gravity and Need” “As Breathing” “Cobalt...
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Amatorler
Her persembe aksami ayni mekanda bulusan ve sonra normal hayatlarina geri donen dort siki arkadas.Diplerde yasayan Alex; tehlikeli sirlar saklayan Ian, maceradan uzak duramayan Jenn ve Jenn'den uzak duramayan Mitch.Siradan hayatlarindan bunalan bu do...