Donald E. Westlake's ever-popular thief John Dortmunder and some pals have a new scheme in hand. They'll work as servants to a corrupt businessman, Monroe Hall, so that they can pull an inside job and steal his antique auto collection...

Eluding the law has always been high on Dortmunder's list. But getting caught red–handed is inevitable in his next caper, when a TV producer convinces this thief and his merry gang to star in a reality show that captures their next ...

At the request of the U.N. ambassador to the African nation of Talabwo, John Dortmunder and his ill-assorted group of hoodlums join forces to plan and execute the theft of the fabulous $500,000 Balabomo emerald, a priceless jewel of g...

Desperately confronting a fading writing career, author Wayne Prentice is faced with a unique proposition from best-selling writer Bryce Proctorr, who promises to split a multi-milion-dollar book contract with Wayne if Wayne will give...

Donald E. Westlake's ever-popular thief John Dortmunder and some pals have a new scheme in hand. They'll work as servants to a corrupt businessman, Monroe Hall, so that they can pull an inside job and steal his antique auto collection...

Dortmunder is in the midst of a routine burglary of a Long Island mansion when who shows up toting a gun but the owner, nasty billionaire Max Fairbanks. Worse, Fairbanks takes Dortmunder's supposedly lucky ring. Highly insulted, Dortm...

Hiding in the darkness of the trees, he was waiting for the state police car to move on, but it would not. Red lights filled the road below, flashlights began to search the woods around him. But he would not go back to Doctor Chax. He...

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and p...

Intrepid reporter Sara Joslyn, having escaped the clutches of the supermarket tabloid Weekly Galaxy, is finally going to be allowed to practice 'clean journalism.' Unfortunately, intrepid editor Jack Ingersoll has other plans, assigni...

The family of fence Arnie Albright thinks that a Club Med vacation might add some polish to his practically nonexistent manners. While that laudable aim remains unfulfilled, the Caribbean idyll does allow Arnie to make the acquaintanc...

What will a group of monks do when their century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is thr...

In the funniest crime caper ever from Grandmaster Donald Westlake, four teams of international thieves race through Paris to steal a king\'s ransom from the walls of a disassembled castle.\r\n\r\nWhen four groups of international heis...

The Grand Master of Mystery delivers "nerve-end-entertainment" when two of New York's finest set out to become two of New York's richest (Kirkus Reviews).  Tom and Joe have been walking the beat on the mean streets of the B...

THE MOVIE STAR AND THE MOVIE CRITIC -- HOW FAR WOULD THEY GO TO KEEP THEIR SECRETS BURIED? DOUBLE FEATURE Contains two CLASSIC Donald E. Westlake novellas, A Travesty and Ordo.WHAT'S HIDDEN BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN?In New York City, a...

Academy Award nominee Donald Westlake (The Grifters) returns with a never-before-published thriller based on his story for a James Bond movie that never got made! With an afterword by Bond producer Jeff Kleeman.A formerly rich busines...

JAILED FOR A JOKEIt isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just tryin...

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and ...