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The Professionals   Owen Laukkanen
A group of twenty-somethings who can’t get decent work become professional kidnappers. An FBI agent and a Minnesota BCA cop hunt them down. I liked the criminals the most, though all the characters had a little more depth than usual in this genre. Couldn’t put it down.

Satori   Don Winslow
Very entertaining “prequel” to Trevanian’s Shibumi. Nicholai Hel is entrapped to work as an assassin for the Americans, kills everything in sight, falls in love, deftly eludes those trying to kill him, avenges his mother, helps lay the foundations for the Vietnam war, and barely gets out alive. All based on the game Go. A lot of fun.