Donald E. Westlake

Can a monk on Park Avenue save his home from the wrecking ball? What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly...

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 businessman, thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the British, decides to fix his dire financial problems and take revenge...

Jailed for a joke. It 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 Knt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates'...

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not ageing comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours. And not the five remaining members of the People’s Revolutionary Army, who’ve decided that kidnapping Koo would be the...