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Summer Thrillers Star 'Bad Boys' with a Difference

Lee Child's Without Fail, Walter Mosley's Bad Boy Brawly Brown, and John Sandford's Mortal Prey -- NPR's Linda Wertheimer has put these "bad-boy mysteries" on her summer reading list, and interviewed their authors. On Morning Edition, Wertheimer sizes up the fictional tough guy who can be "romantic, even vulnerable, in between cracking heads."

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