Praise for The Haul A Los Angeles Times Best Summer Read Finalist for the 2026 CALIBA Golden Poppy Book Award for Fiction "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 "Gripping. What makes The Haul so arresting is its mix of old tropes and fresh twists." --Jim Ruland, Alta Journal "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 "Gary Phillips has never published a dull sentence in his life . The Haul is no exception." --Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine "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.