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Author: Michael Gilbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755132254 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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Robert Broke is an authority on Etruscan terracotta. He is the last person to become mixed up in anything risky. But when two men arrive in Florence, Broke’s world is upset as he becomes involved in a ring of spies, the mafiosi and fraud. He then finds himself charged with manslaughter, and must fight for his innocence and his life.
Author: Michael Gilbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755132254 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
Robert Broke is an authority on Etruscan terracotta. He is the last person to become mixed up in anything risky. But when two men arrive in Florence, Broke’s world is upset as he becomes involved in a ring of spies, the mafiosi and fraud. He then finds himself charged with manslaughter, and must fight for his innocence and his life.
Author: Sam Solecki Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0228015774 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the Christian era their wooden temples and writings had vanished, the Romans and the early church had melted their bronze statues, and the people had assimilated. After the last Etruscan augur served the Romans as they fought back the Visigoths in 408 CE, the civilization disappeared but for ruins, tombs, art, and vases. No other lost culture disappeared as completely and then returned to the same extent as the Etruscans. Indeed, no other ancient Mediterranean people was as controversial both in its time and in posterity. Though the Greeks and Romans tarred them as superstitious and decadent, D.H. Lawrence praised their way of life as offering an alternative to modernity. In The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected return to intellectual and cultural history, beginning with eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists. The resurrection of this vanished kingdom occurred with remarkable vigour in philosophy, literature, music, history, mythology, and the plastic arts. From Wedgwood to Picasso, Proust to Lawrence, Emily Dickinson to Anne Carson, Solecki reads the disembodied traces of Etruscan culture for what they tell us about cultural knowledge and mindsets in different times and places, for the way that ideas about the Etruscans can serve as a reflection or foil to a particular cultural moment, and for the creative alchemy whereby artists turn to the past for the raw materials of contemporary creation. The Etruscans are a cultural curiosity because of their disputed origin, unique language, and distinctive religion and customs, but their destination is no less worthy of our curiosity. The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination provides a fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and modern civilizations.
Author: Michael Gilbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755146581 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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Barhaven, on the south coast, is a fairly sleepy place and it seems incredulous that it could be where local councillors manage to line their own pockets. Enter a young lawyer, who finds himself at the centre of a major campaign against racketeering. The public and the press become involved and it ends with a twist that is totally unexpected.
Author: Michael Gilbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755146565 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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Chief Inspector Mercer is called when the skeleton of a girl is found on Westlaugh Island in the upper reaches of the Thames. What appears to be routine leads to unexpected events and a string of unlikely characters, including a one armed garage proprietor. The finale involves two nights of violence before the twisted truth finally emerges.
Author: Michael Gilbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755146867 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 283
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Explosives destined for a terrorist bombing campaign are being smuggled into the UK. One plot is foiled but the security services suspect another. A seemingly unconnected problem occurs with race riots in London. The true extent of the nightmare facing the government and the solution depends on a single, quite astonishing, piece of evidence.
Author: Michael Gilbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755146727 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 293
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Hazlerigg, Bohun, Mercer and Petrella all feature in turn in this collection of eighteen short stories; police procedurals and action packed thrillers. Why did the man rob the bank? How could a man disappear in a deserted street? And sixteen more!
Author: Michael Gilbert Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 0755146697 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 235
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A German spy ring directs Zeppelins to keep an eye on the British fleet. Two ships are blown up and Luke Pagan is ordered to watch a suspected British Officer. This leads to the uncovering of an Irish terrorist plot and an international conspiracy run by a German. There is a race against time to identify all espionage and terrorist activities.
Author: Michael Gilbert
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