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Author: James Lasdun Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393292339 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasdun’s acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall Guy is a complex moral tale as well as a gripping suspense story, probing questions of guilt and betrayal with ruthless incisiveness. Who is the real victim here? Who is the perpetrator? And who, ultimately, is the fall guy? Darkly vivid, with an atmosphere of erotic danger, The Fall Guy is Lasdun’s most entertaining novel yet.
Author: James Lasdun Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393292339 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
In this taut psychological thriller, a couple and their houseguest find themselves caught in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and revenge. It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasdun’s acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall Guy is a complex moral tale as well as a gripping suspense story, probing questions of guilt and betrayal with ruthless incisiveness. Who is the real victim here? Who is the perpetrator? And who, ultimately, is the fall guy? Darkly vivid, with an atmosphere of erotic danger, The Fall Guy is Lasdun’s most entertaining novel yet.
Author: Chuck Roberson Publisher: North Vancouver, B.C. : Hancock ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 356
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Life as John Waynes stuntman. Chuck Roberson fell off horses for thirty years, doubling for some of the biggest names in moves - John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Gable, Mitchum, and Heston. He and his great horse Cocaine devised a running horse fall that was safe but a spectacular improvement on the cantering lie down horse fall used before, and together they galloped their way into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame. When Cocaine finally quit after 27 years before the cameras, Roberson say his "heart wasn't in it any more." Now retired, he recalls the highlights of his career in this humorous book.
Author: Alasdair Gray Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 1838853863 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 135
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It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition, a megalomania surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive attempts at friendship and romance. Yet is he all bad, or are the true villains the establishment figures who he tricks and deceives? And, ultimately, does it matter? Gray’s twist on the follies of religion, the media and the imperial British centre is as relevant now as ever.
Author: Liz Reinhardt Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1782951237 Category : Love stories Languages : en Pages : 466
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Fiery Evan Lennox is dreading community service, until she meets Winchester Youngblood. Winch is mysterious and sexy as hell, and Evan soon finds herself falling for his bad boy charm. But Winch has some dark secrets of his own and they threaten to destroy everything. Should Evan follow her instincts and give into temptation . . . or will Winchester prove too hot to handle? 'Winch and Evan sizzle on every page. Keep a fan handy . . . or a fire extinguisher!' Tammara Webber Also by Liz Reinhardt: Double Clutch Junk Miles Slow Twitch
Author: Nathan Filer Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 0007491441 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 261
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WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014
Author: Barbara Fradkin Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 1554698375 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 126
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Handyman Cedric O'Toole likes his simple life. He lives by himself on a hardscrabble farm, collecting sheds full of junk and dreaming of his next invention. Then one day a slick city lawyer drives down his lane and his nightmare begins. Lori-Anne Wilkins, the wife of a wealthy local businessman, has fallen to her death from a deck Cedric built, and the furious widower has slapped him with a lawsuit. When Cedric goes to check out the accident site, he discovers that someone has tampered with the railing around the deck. It appears he's been set up to take the blame. But who might want Mrs. Wilkins dead? Then, when someone runs him off the road, he realizes that his life is in danger too. To clear his name and save his life, Cedric has to use his inventive mind to trap the real killer.
Author: Tristan Bancks Publisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 1760892653 Category : Accidents Languages : en Pages : 287
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In the middle of the night, Sam is woken by angry voices from the apartment above. He goes to the window to see what's happening - only to hear a struggle, and see a body fall from the sixth-floor balcony. Pushed, Sam thinks. Sam goes to wake his father, Harry, a crime reporter, but Harry is gone. And when Sam goes downstairs, the body is gone, too. But someone has seen Sam, and knows what he's witnessed. The next twenty-four hours could be his last.
Author: Mark T. Sullivan Publisher: Pinnacle Books ISBN: 9780786001767 Category : Money laundering Languages : en Pages : 480
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A former investment banker who destroyed his career by laundering money for a powerful drug cartel, Jack Farrell is on the run from both the FBI and ruthless drug lords, until a deadly challenge from a seductive filmmaker puts him on a collision course with his past. Reprint.
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