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American Tabloid

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 55 mins)
• By James Ellroy
• Narrated By Jeff Harding

It's 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1,000 days of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant, Howard Hughes’ right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa’s hit man. Kemper Boyd, employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy’s drive against organised crime.

The Black Dahlia

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By James Ellroy
• Narrated By Stephen Hoye
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On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, a young Hollywood hopeful, had been brutally murdered. Her murder sparked one of the greatest manhunts in California history.

The Force: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Don Winslow
• Narrated By Dion Graham
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All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is the "King of Manhattan North", a highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of "Da Force". Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest - an elite special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs, and guns. Every day and every night for the 18 years he's spent on the job, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps.

The Golden House: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Salman Rushdie
• Narrated By Vikas Adam

Our guide to the Goldens' world is their neighbor René, an ambitious young filmmaker. Researching a movie about the Goldens, he ingratiates himself into their household. Seduced by their mystique, he is inevitably implicated in their quarrels, their infidelities, and, indeed, their crimes. Meanwhile, like a bad joke, a certain comic-book villain embarks upon a crass presidential run that turns New York upside-down.

Darktown: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Thomas Mullen
• Narrated By Andre Holland
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Responding to pressure from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers. It's a victory of sorts, though the newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers, and their authority is limited: They can't arrest a suspect unless a white officer is present; they can't drive squad cars; they can't even enter the station through the front door.

Clandestine: Mysterious Press - HighBridge Audio Classics

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 31 mins)
• By James Ellroy
• Narrated By William Roberts
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Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950s - a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all-American and squeaky clean. A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition - and it propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy. When the case implodes with disastrous consequences, it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall. His life is in ruins, his promising future suddenly a dream of the past.

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Dan Jones
• Narrated By Dan Jones

In 1307, as they struggled to secure their last strongholds in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Templars fell afoul of the vindictive and impulsive king of France. On Friday, October 13, hundreds of brothers were arrested en masse, imprisoned, tortured, and disbanded amid accusations of lurid sexual misconduct and heresy. They were tried by the Vatican in secret proceedings. But were they heretics or victims of a ruthlessly repressive state?

The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Kliph Nesteroff
• Narrated By Kliph Nesteroff
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In The Comedians, comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over 200 original interviews and extensive archival research, Nesteroff's groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past 100 years.

Red Harvest

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
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When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain. From the author of The Maltese Falcon.

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Nick Bilton
• Narrated By Will Damron
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In 2011, a 26-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine website hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything - drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye. It wasn't long before the media got wind of the new website where anyone - not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers - could buy and sell contraband detection-free.

Sherlock Holmes

• UNABRIDGED (62 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry - introductions
• Narrated By Stephen Fry

Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title.

The Big Sleep

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Raymond Chandler
• Narrated By Ray Porter

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.

The Power of the Dog

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Don Winslow
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Francis Spufford
• Narrated By Sarah Borges
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The spectacular first novel from acclaimed nonfiction author Francis Spufford follows the adventures of a mysterious young man in mid-18th century Manhattan, 30 years before the American Revolution.

The Complete Short Stories

• UNABRIDGED (65 hrs and 1 min)
• By J. G. Ballard
• Narrated By Ric Jerrrom, William Gaminara, Sean Barrett, and others

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius.

Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Jason Zinoman
• Narrated By Michael Goldstrom

In a career spanning more than 30 years, David Letterman redefined the modern talk show with an ironic comic style that transcended traditional television. While he remains one of the most famous stars in America, he is a remote, even reclusive figure whose career is widely misunderstood. In Letterman, Jason Zinoman, the first comedy critic in the history of the New York Times, mixes groundbreaking reporting with unprecedented access and probing critical analysis to explain the unique entertainer's titanic legacy.

Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 44 mins)
• By John le Carré
• Narrated By Michael Jayston
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George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy - which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. Why, then, did the man from the Foreign Office shoot himself in the head only hours later? Or did he? The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carre's chillingly amoral universe.

The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Michael Connelly
• Narrated By Dick Hill
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For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell.

Full Dark, No Stars

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht
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"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922", the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

The Dain Curse

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Dashiell Hammett
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone
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The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults. She has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying violently. Is Gabrielle the victim of a family curse? Or is the truth about her weirder and infinitely more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Jeff Guinn
• Narrated By Jonathan Hogan
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With dramatic flair, Jeff Guinn delivers the definitive portrait of Bonnie and Clyde. These media-savvy outlaws appealed to America's Depression-era hunger for swashbuckling characters. Glowing radio and newspaper reports transformed these "public enemies" into celebrities - much like the cinema gangsters of the time.

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

• UNABRIDGED (25 hrs and 23 mins)
• By David Talbot
• Narrated By Peter Altschuler

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful - and secretive - colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times best seller Brothers.

Brown's Requiem

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 28 mins)
• By James Ellroy
• Narrated By R. C. Bray
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Fritz Brown’s L.A. - and his life - are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem - a private-eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music - he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown’s life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap.

The Secret History of Twin Peaks

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Mark Frost
• Narrated By Len Cariou, Mark Frost, Michael Horse, and others

From the cocreator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years.

A vastly layered, wide-ranging history that deepens the mysteries of the iconic town in ways that will thrill disciples of the original series and will prep fans for the upcoming SHOWTIME® series like nothing else out there.