Author: Stephen R. Donaldson Publisher: Forge Books ISBN: 1429973072 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
Running away from yourself never works. You'll always catch up. "Donaldson, at his trademark best, fleshes out the characters to the max...and it's all wrapped around a well-paced, cleverly-plotted mystery that will leave readers wanting more." --Charleston Post on The Man Who Killed His Brother Mick "Brew" Axbrewder was once a great P.I. That was before he accidentally shot and killed a cop--worse, a cop who happened to be his own brother. Then Mick's partner, Ginny Fistoulari, blew off her own hand protecting him from a confrontation brought on by his alcoholism. Unsurprisingly, Mick and Ginny aren't on great terms any more. Now, a week after an incident in which he was shot, barely back on his feet, Mick has agreed against his better judgement to join Ginny in providing security at a "murder mystery camp", where a dozen people stay in an isolated, snowbound lodge to play at being detectives. Then a real killer starts bumping people off, one by one... As ever, Stephen Donaldson shows why he's regarded as one of America's greatest storytellers, with a tale of human pain and human triumph in The Man Who Tried to Get Away. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Richard Stark Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226772861 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
In New York there was a contract on his life. In Nebraska there was an unscrupulous plastic surgeon guarded by a punch-drunk fighter. And somewhere in New Jersey there was an armored car stuffed with money. In the middle of it all was Parker. Parker goes under the knife in The Man with the Getaway Face, changing his face to escape the mob and a contract on his life. Along the way he scores his biggest heist yet, but there’s a catch—a beautiful, dangerous catch who goes by the name Alma.
Author: E.E. 'Doc' Smith Publisher: Gateway ISBN: 0575122765 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
Helena, second in command of the Empire Of Earth's security forces (and daughter of its head), has disappeared. She knows the identity of SOTE's two most highly trained operators and their lives are now in danger . . . they have to find her before she can reveal their identities. Getaway World is the fourth book in the Family d'Alembert series.
Author: Suzette Lewis Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1491855800 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
A young girl going through heartache, pain, and struggling to survive. Being one of the youngest siblings of 10 kids at the time, she had no choice but to step up and take care of home. Abuse from her father and other men, being raped and assaulted. Trying to find love in all the wrong places.
Author: Ernest S. Burch Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803213463 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Alliance and Conflict combines a richly descriptive study of intersocietal relations in early nineteenth-century Northwest Alaska with a bold theoretical treatise on the structure of the world system as it might have been in ancient times. Ernest S. Burch Jr. illuminates one aspect of the traditional lives of the I_upiaq Eskimos in unparalleled detail and depth. Basing his account on observations made by early Western explorers, interviews with Native historians, and archeological research, Burch describes the social boundaries and geographic borders formerly existing in Northwest Alaska and the various kinds of transactions that took place across them. These ranged from violence of the most brutal sort, at one extreme, to relations of peace and friendship, at the other. Burch argues that the international system he describes approximated in many respects the type of system existing all over the world before the development of agriculture. Based on that assumption, he presents a series of hypotheses about what the world system may have been like when it consisted entirely of hunter-gatherer societies and about how it became more centralized with the evolution of chiefdoms. ø Accounts of specific people, places, and events add an immediate, experiential dimension to the work, complementing its theoretical apparatus and sweeping narrative scope. Provocative and comprehensive, Alliance and Conflict is a definitive look at the greater world of Native peoples of Northwest Alaska.
Author: Gillian Aune Publisher: Createspace ISBN: 1499509278 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 120
Book Description
The Cleansers are a terrorist organization bent on starting the world over again. They have created a virus they claim eliminates the evil of the world. Join Cooper and fight again them, meet new characters and remember the fallen.
Author: Roger Granelli Publisher: Headline Accent ISBN: 190933555X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Fast moving and full of dramatic set pieces, Dead Pretty is a murderous journey with a twist in its tail. Mark Richards, having rebuilt his life after a traumatic, deprived past, is a private investigator in London. When his beautiful girlfriend, Lena, is brutally and sadistically slain his life is turned upside down. In his search for her killers, he becomes hunter and hunted, exacting revenge whilst trying to stay alive. His quest turns into a bloody rites of passage, which takes him from London to the Midlands, to the hills of south Wales, and, ultimately, to Amsterdam, where the savage climax of the book is played out amidst the seedy back alleys of the red light district. Mark Richards finds out more than he ever wanted to know, old demons rear up again in his mind, and he has to reach deep into his soul to survive. PRAISE FOR Dead Pretty: 'This is a thriller which will lead you by the nose through some fine writing. Granelli sets the scenes in London, South Wales and Amsterdam with keen observation and gives us characters that may sometimes be extreme but are always believable. The pace is electric and keeps you hooked. It would make a good film as well as a good read' Western Mail 'His characters breathe, make you care. One day the people who count will realise that Roger Granelli is one of the best street-level thriller writers around' Phil Rickman, Author 'Granelli should appeal to readers of grisly realistic thrillers and is the best such author to revel in his Welsh roots' Waterstones bookseller
Author: J.J. Parker Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1469124386 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 203
Book Description
CAUGHT - One More for the Good Guys tells the enduring, true story of a female undercover officer who faced and overcame great odds in the line of duty. It provides an insight into what it was like for a woman to be on the street with real life druggies,thieves and murderers lurking around. Through the author's view, readers will experience every emotion that a soul could experience: the excitement, fun, fear, danger, disappointment and the sense of accomplishment in doing something worthwile. Along the way, this book also reveals the politics of law enforcement, the impact crime has on the local community and much more.
Author: Stephen R. Donaldson
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Author: Suzette Lewis
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Author: Roger Granelli
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