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|title=The Professionals

|sort=Professionals, The

|publisher=Corvus

|date=July 2014

|website=http://owenlaukkanen.com/

|summary=What does it take to be a professional criminal? A cool exterior and the ability to think on the job. ''The Professionals'' explores what happens when a supposedly professional gang of kidnappers starts to unravel fast. Can Agents Stevens and Windermere catch up with the gang before the criminal underworld do?

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The professional criminal is the type of person who gets in, does the job and then gets out again. Sounds like the perfect way to stay undetected as a lifelong miscreant, but does not sound like the most exciting narrative for a story. Instead, take a bunch of young kidnappers who are drunk on their own success, whose racket goes wrong one day when they pick up the wrong mark. Watching their lives spiral out of control would be a much more thrilling read. A read just like ''The Professionals''.