Bloody Streets of Paris

9 best books like Bloody Streets of Paris (Léo Malet): Aya, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Footnotes in Gaza, Brother, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon, Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead, The Prone Gunman, Fiori sopra l'inferno, The Star Rover

Aya

Author	Marguerite Abouet
ISBN	1894937902

"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endures despite everything because, as we say back home, life goes on." --Marguerite Abouet

Ivory Coast, 1978. Family and friends gather at Aya's house every evening to watch the country's first...

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Author	George V. Higgins
ISBN	1841192627

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop named Foley is on to Eddie and he's leaning on him to finger Scalisi, a gang leader with a lot to hide. And then there's Dillon-a full-time bartender and part-time contract killer--pretending to be Eddie's...

Footnotes in Gaza

Author	Joe Sacco
ISBN	0805073477

From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and...

Brother

Author	David Chariandy
ISBN	1635572045

An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.

With shimmering...

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon

Author

Joe Dispenza

The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming...

Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead

Author	Tosha Silver
ISBN	1476789746

A collection of spiritual lessons, anecdotes, and thoughts on the Divine’s intervention in our lives, this brilliantly written and wonderfully entertaining book teaches us how to live purposefully and in line with the Force of Love.

“What if the Divine is constantly igniting roadside...

The Prone Gunman

Author	Jean-Patrick Manchette
ISBN	0872864022

Also available in a new, movie tie-in edition, titled The Gunman (Paperback ISBN: 978-0-87286-664-5. Ebook ISBN: 9780872866652). Film opened March 20, 2015 starring Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba and Ray Winstone, directed by Pierre Morel (Taken).

Martin Terrier is a hired killer...

Fiori sopra l'inferno

Author	Ilaria Tuti
ISBN	8830449814

«Tra i boschi e le pareti rocciose a strapiombo, giù nell'orrido che conduce al torrente, tra le pozze d'acqua smeraldo che profuma di ghiaccio, qualcosa si nasconde. Me lo dicono le tracce di sangue, me lo dice l'esperienza: è successo, ma potrebbe risuccedere. Questo è solo l'inizio. Qualcosa...

The Star Rover

Author	Jack London
ISBN	0812970047

The Star Rover, in the UK published as The Jacket, is a collection of short stories revolves around the concept of reincarnation. It tells the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life —and long stretches in a straitjacket— by withdrawing into...