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Gary Phillips

The Haul: A Heist Novel

by Gary Phillips (Author) Format: Hardcover

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A professional thief takes the chance of a lifetime when he agrees to mastermind the raid of a tech billionaire’s secret bunker in this action-packed heist thriller set in the heart of contemporary Los Angeles, from master of West Coast noir Gary Phillips. Perfect for fans of Sara Paretsky and Michael Connelly.

After years of close calls, O’Conner—the former “Warlord of Willow Ridge”—spends most of his time in semi-retirement, running his legitimate businesses and playing pickleball. Except for his longtime girlfriend, no one in his middle-class neighborhood is the wiser to his double life.

But O’Conner’s past refuses to stay dead. When he’s approached with a job he can’t resist, he agrees to mastermind his biggest heist yet: a multi-million-dollar raid of a tech billionaire’s secret bunker, hidden beneath his newly constructed basketball arena. As the job goes down, testing O’Conner’s mettle with new challenges, the promise of the score attracts ghosts from his past he thought were long buried.

Interwoven with flashbacks to O’Conner’s coming-of-age as an orphan in Los Angeles, this pulse-pounding story is both an homage to Donald Westlake’s Parker series and a rich portrait of a morally gray thief at a crossroads.

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Print length

304 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Soho Crime
Publication date

July 14, 2026
Dimensions

5.75 x 1.02 x 8.52 inches
ISBN-10

164129664X
ISBN-13

978-1641296649

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A Los Angeles Times Best Summer Read

“L.A.’s own Phillips reinvigorates the heist novel while paying homage to Donald Westlake’s iconic Parker series . . . Buckle up for loads of action and a wild ride through SoCal history and haunts.”
—Los Angeles Times

“Phillips revisits O'Connor, the master criminal antihero of The Warlord of Willow Ridge (2012), in this turbo-charged outing . . . Crime fiction aficionados will devour this action-packed yarn.”
—Booklist

“Punchy... a raucous, ripped-from-the-headlines heist novel.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Praise for Gary Phillips

“Phillips is a storyteller first . . . The wounds of 1963, and the foreshadowing of both better days and harsher ones, feel unnervingly fresh, and a reminder that progress, much as we wish otherwise, never adheres to a linear timeline.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Excellent . . . Phillips’ descriptions of the utter conflagration that was Watts as well as the mysterious fictional events that follow capture the spirit of the social and political upheaval of 1960s Los Angeles with a veracity that chilled me.”
—Los Angeles Times

“One of the high points of the year for mystery fans.”
—Parade

“For thirty years Phillips has been a must-read writer, and One-Shot Harry is probably his best ever—tense and suspenseful, of course, but also deep, resonant and intelligent. It's a story that needed to be told, and therefore a book that needs to be read.”
—Lee Child

“In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett . . . Makes us feel that the war he’s waging is for our own salvation.”
—Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins series

“Gary Phillips is my kind of crime writer.”
—Sara Paretsky, New York Times bestselling author

About the Author

Gary Phillips has published novels, comics, novellas, short stories and edited or co-edited several anthologies, including the Anthony-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Almost thirty years after its publication, his debut, Violent Spring, was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer and co-producer on Snowfall, a show streaming on Hulu about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Soho Crime
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 14, 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 164129664X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1641296649
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.08 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.02 x 8.52 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #517,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,874 in Organized Crime Thrillers
- #2,973 in Black & African American Urban Fiction (Books)
- #8,082 in Science Fiction Crime & Mystery

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Weaned on the images of Kirby and Steranko in comics and Hammet and Himes in prose, Gary Phillips was born under a bad sign and only through writing does he hope to get out from under. For more of his work, please visit his website at: www.gdphillips.com.

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