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United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor winner Dan Lensons mission is to observe an international military exercise involving the navies of South Korea Japan Australia and America It should be routine duty for Dan but old alliances are unraveling as North Korea threatens the US and China expands its influenceNow acting as both adviser and adversary to a ruthless South Korean taskforce commander Dan must stop a wolfpack of unidentified submarinesarmed with nuclear weaponswhich are trying to elude Allied surveillance and penetrate the Sea of Japan Is it the start of an invasionor an elaborate feint to divert attention from a devastating attackBattling faulty weapons a complacent Washington establishment and a fierce typhoon season at sea its time for Dan to act on his owneven if doing so means the end of his career the lives of his observers and the risk of nuclear war
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United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor winner Dan Lensons mission is to observe an international military exercise involving the navies of South Korea Japan Australia and America It should be routine duty for Dan but old alliances are unraveling as North Korea threatens the US and China expands its influence Acting as both adviser and adversary to a ruthless South Korean task force commander Dan must stop a wolfpack of unidentified submarines armed with nuclear weapons which is trying to elude Allied surveillance and penetrate the Sea of Japan Is it the start of an invasion or an elaborate feint to divert attention from a devastating attack Battling faulty weapons a complacent Washington establishment and a fierce typhoon season at sea Dan must act on his owneven if doing so means the end of his career the lives of his observers and the risk of nuclear war Featuring fierce action at sea and political intrigue at the highest levels Korea Strait is both a firstclass thriller and a prescient look at how the next major war might begin
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The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Timesbestselling author Randy Wayne WhitenbspDoc Fords old friend General Juan Garcia has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the US He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar He prefers what dealers call HPC itemshighprofile collectiblesbut when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fidel Castro between 196062 to a secret girlfriend its not a matter of money anymore Garcia has stumbled way out of his depthFirst Garcia disappears and then the man to whom he sold the letters When Doc Ford begins to investigate he soon becomes convinced that those letters contain a secret that someone or some powerful agency cannot allow to be made publicA lot happened between Cuba and the United States from 196062 Many men died A few more will hardly be noticed
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Straits Settlement sold for 56.89 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
A Straits Settlement LONGLISTEDnbspin the 2017nbspNGAIO MARSH AWARDnbspfor best crime novel written by a New Zealander In the third installment of the Le Fanu Mystery series the intrepid superintendent is promoted to InspectorGeneral of Police in 1920s Madras which proves to be more boring than he had envisagedInstead of pushing papers across his desk the Le Fanu focuses on the disappearance of a senior Indian Civil Service officer and an apparently unrelated murder As the two incidents intertwine the world weary detective is drawn into the worlds of indentured labor recruitment and antiquities theftBut as bureaucratic politics make his position vulnerable his superiors send the intrepid policeman across the Bay of Bengal to pursue the cases in the Straits Settlements Le Fanu immediately becomes embroiled in the activities of secret societies and the British colonial intelligence services The appearance of a mysterious Chinese woman renders his professional life uncertain as he wonders anew about the British imperial future
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Strait Is the Gate Twentieth sold for 50.31 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Strait is the Gate first published in 1909 in France as La Porte etroite is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism André Gide 1869 1951 was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 Gides career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars Gides work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty His selfexploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself without at the same time betraying ones values For Gide was very different from the picture most people had of him He was the very reverse of an aesthete and as a writer had nothing in common with the doctrine of art for arts sake He was a man deeply involved in a specific struggle a specific fight who never wrote a line which he did not think was of service to the cause he had at heart Francois Mauriac
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The sweetheart of Héctor Balascorán Shaynes adolescencethe same one who has become a famous Mexican movie starhas disappeared into the magical reality of the USMexico Border Her daughter hires the detective to find her and bring her home He wanders la frontera traveling the empty roads between Tijuana and Mexicali and Juárez Between nostalgia and reality He falls in and out of love he talks with the ghost of Pancho Villa he asks lonely questions about the dirty business of narcotraficantes and he listens closely to the story of the whores of Zacatecas They like his sweetheart seem to have disappeared forever their absence creating chaos back home Balascorán Shayne who at heart is an anarchist and incurable romantic answers his own questions with two sticks of dynamite Only then can he say goodbye to the beloved of his youthThe Héctor Balascorán Shayne detective series are best sellers in Mexico Latin America and Europe In the US Belascorán Shayne has a rabid and growing clan of aficionados but to insure that the popularity of the series continues to grow editor Bobby Byrd and translator William Verner add an Afterword for Frontera Dreams Their essay includes a biography of the detective a brief synopsis of the novels to date and an artists sketch of him The drawing portrays all the scars on his bulletriddled body and details in which novel Paco Ignacio Taibo II inflicted these myriad wounds on his beleaguered hero
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Caveworld A Novel sold for 249.21 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Adam Gnades second novel Caveworld is a howl of desperation as its characters fight to find love and meaning in a society with which they feel out of step Richly encyclopedic and set in the twin border towns of Tijuana and San Diego the book tells two love stories separated by a gulf of twenty years Caveworld is made up of the various events both subtle and seismic that change lives in an instant Gnade covers a lot of ground sex and pervasive loneliness in teenage bedrooms lifeshaping horror in the Vietnam jungle birth school work marriage depression crime murder moodflushed road trips crossing the continent exile whether on Mexican rooftop or country estate and living rooms smoky with the sad and ofttimes devastating absurdity of sex drugs and rock n roll Equally influenced by Joan Didions West Coast storytelling Faulkners Yoknapatawpha County and James Joyces early examinations of place Gnades Caveworld is an epic sprawling saga of American life
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Find tips, reviews, and features on The Umbrella Man the Inspector sold for 29.81 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Jake Needham is Asias most stylish and atmospheric writer of crime fiction nbspThe Singapore Straits TimesNeedham writes so you can smell the spicy street food mingling with the traffic jams the sweat and the garbage nbspnbspLibris ReviewsTHE FIRST BOMB cracked the Hilton like an egg The second gutted the lobby of the Marriott And the third peeled the front off of the Grand Hyatt Three massive explosions all at American hotels in the heart of the city and all within a few horrifying seconds Hundreds are dead and thousands are injured Singapore is bleedingInspector Samuel Tay is a senior inspector in the Special Investigation Section of Singapore CID but he is frozen out of the investigation from the beginning He has some serious enemies in Singapores Internal Security Department and he has even more enemies at the American embassy so Tay is assigned routine cases while his colleagues join with the CIA and the FBI in a feverish search for the bombersThree days after the explosions the smell of death still sticky in the citys air Tay is sent to a rundown apartment near the Malaysian border where two children have found the body of a Caucasian male with a broken neck Tay feels an immediate connection with the dead man although he doesnt think he has seen him beforeAs Tay searches the dead mans past for clues to who he was and who his killer might have been Tays own past begins to give up its secrets A longdead father he can barely remember reaches out of the grave to point to the truth about both the murdered man and the bombingsnbspAnd the horror of Singapores destruction becomes a personal horror for Samuel Tay
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Water Dancer A Novel sold at 56.94 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Several years after being ranked the top female marathon swimmer Dorey Thomas determines to swim the as yet uncrossed San Antonio Strait and turns for training to Sarge Olssen who lost his only son to the strait
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Brookland A Novel sold at 45.67 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Since her girlhood Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance Now established as the owner of the enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from her father she can begin to realize her dreamSet in eighteenthcentury Brooklyn this is the story of a determined and intelligent woman who is consumed by a vision of a bridge a gargantuan construction of timber and masonry she devises to cross the East River in a single magnificent span With the help of the local surveyor Benjamin Horsfield and her sistersthe highspirited obstreperous Tem who works with her in the distillery and the silent uncanny Pearlshe fires the imaginations of the people of Brooklyn and New York by promising them a bridge that will meet their most pressing practical needs while being one of the most ambitious public works ever attempted Prues own life and the life of the bridge become inextricably bound together as the costs of the bridge both financial and human rise beyond her direst expectationsBrookland confirms Emily Bartons reputation as one of the finest writers of her generation whose work is blessedly postironic engaging and heartfelt Thomas Pynchon
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An atmospheric and complicated saga of crimes that crisscross the narrow strait between Sweden and Denmarkgreat cop charactersand some imaginatively grisly perps Sunday TimesWould you kill for the one you love Thats the question that international bestseller Stefan Ahnhems The Ninth Grave A Fabian Risk Novel seeks to answer in this spinetingling thriller set six months before the events in Victim Without a FaceOn a cold winter evening the Swedish minister of justice disappears without a trace from the short walk between the house of Parliament and his car At the same time the wife of a famous Danish TVstar is found brutally murdered in her luxury home north of Copenhagen Soon more bodies are discovered all missing different body parts As criminal investigator Fabian Risk and Danish counterpart Dunja Hougaard race to put the pieces together they are dragged into a conspiracy worse than anyone could imagine
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Pure goldOne of the best books by this most versatile of writersPenelope LivelyTroy meant one thing only to the men gathered here as it did to their commanders Troy was a dream of wealth and if the wind continued the dream would crumble As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis frustration and political impotence turn into a desire for the blood of a young and innocent womanblood that will appease the gods and allow the troops to set sail And when Iphigeneia Agamemnons beloved daughter is brought to the coast under false pretences and when a knife is fashioned out of the finest and most precious of materials it looks as if the ships will soon be on their way But can a father really go to these lengths to secure political victory and can a daughter willingly give up her life for the worldly ambitions of her father Throwing off the heroic values we expect of them Barry Unsworths mythic characters embrace the political ethos of the twentyfirst century and speak in words we recognize as our own The blowhard Odysseus warns the men to not marginalize Agamemnon and to strike while the bronze is hot Highsounding principles clash with private motives and dark comedy ensues Here is a novel that stands the world on its head
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Killing Plato The Jack Shepherd sold for 31.03 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
The gritty and taut KILLING PLATO is 100 unadulterated attitude Needhams provocative views about Asian culture jump at you from every page nbspThe Singapore Straits TimesJake Needham is that rare author we should all treasure Hes a classic master of crime intrigue and edgy thrillersnbspJames Grady New York Times bestselling author of SIX DAYS OF THE CONDORJack Shepherd was a politically connected American lawyer until he traded the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life of a college professor in Thailand Everything had been going pretty well for him there too at least it had until the day he walked into a bar on the jetset island of Phuket and found the worlds most famous fugitive waiting for himPlato Karsarkis was an international celebrity straight out of Vanity Fair until a New York grand jury indicted him for smuggling Iraqi oil and charged him with racketeering and money laundering Theres also the matter of a woman he may or may not have murdered to cover it all up When Karsarkis fled the United States and disappeared the worlds media whipped itself into a frenzy searching for him Karsarkis is waiting for Shepherd in that Phuket bar because he wants to hire him He figures a presidential pardon would be his ticket back to America and he thinks Shepherds connections to the White House just might get it for him But the US Marshals are in Phuket too and they need Shepherds help as well The marshals want Shepherd to set a trap for Karsarkis so they can grab him and drag him back to New York All Shepherd wants is for everybody to go away and leave him alone At least he does until he learns a chilling secret that plunges him a violent spiral of friendship and betrayal and pulls him straight back into the life he thought he had left behind in Washington The marshals arent really in Phuket to arrest Plato Karsarkis Theyre there to kill him
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Based on the novels by James SA Corey this Syfy series debuted in 2015 In the 23rd century police detective Josephus Miller Thomas Jane space freighter first officer James Holden Steven Strait and United Nations official Chrisjen Avasarala Shohreh Aghdashloo become entwined in a complex interplanetary conspiracy that could threaten the future of humanity itself With Cas Anvar Dominique Tipper Wes Chatham Paulo Costanzo13 episodes on 3 discs 8 12 hrs Widescreen Enhanced So
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Based on the novels by James SA Corey this Syfy series debuted in 2015 In the 23rd century police detective Josephus Miller Thomas Jane space freighter first officer James Holden Steven Strait and United Nations official Chrisjen Avasarala Shohreh Aghdashloo become entwined in a complex interplanetary conspiracy that could threaten the future of humanity itself With Cas Anvar Dominique Tipper Wes Chatham Paulo Costanzo 13 episodes on 4 discs 8 12 hrs Widescreen Enhanced S
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A witty and romantic novel of Regency love family and appalling scandal from a latterday Jane AustenWhen their straitlaced domineering father Sir Clement Carnell dies Valentine throws open their Devonshire estate of Pennacombe to their fashionable cousins from London and Louisa feels free at last to reject the man Sir Clement wanted her to marrySoon the temptations of Regency London beckon including the beautiful scandalous and very married Lady Harriet Eversholt with whom Valentine becomes dangerously involved Meanwhile Louisa finds that freedom of choice is as daunting as it is exciting Will the opportunity to indulge in a little folly lead to fulfillmentor disaster A Little Folly is a novel to make Jane Austen proud and Georgette Heyer envious An acclaimed author of historical fiction Jude Morgan weaves together the very best of Regency era writing with refreshingly original characters an intriguing plot and an elegantly ironic style RT Book Reviews on Indiscretion In this exciting new novel Morgan delivers a story that yet again will bring cheers from critics and readers alike
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A witty and romantic novel of Regency love family and appalling scandal from one of our greatest historical novelistsSir Clement Carnell was the most domineering and straitlaced of fathers and his death has left his children Louisa and Valentine with a sense of release While Valentine throws open the Devonshire estate of Pennacombe to their fashionable cousins from London Louisa feels free at last to reject the man her father chose as her prospective husband Pearce Lynley Soon the temptations of Regency London beckon including Lady Harriet Eversholt beautiful scandalous and very married with whom Valentine becomes dangerously involved while Louisa finds that freedom of choice is as daunting as it is exciting Will the opportunity to indulge at last in a little folly lead to fulfillment or disaster
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A witty and romantic novel of Regency love family and appalling scandal from a latterday Jane AustenWhen their straitlaced domineering father Sir Clement Carnell dies Valentine throws open their Devonshire estate of Pennacombe to their fashionable cousins from London and Louisa feels free at last to reject the man Sir Clement wanted her to marrySoon the temptations of Regency London beckon including the beautiful scandalous and very married Lady Harriet Eversholt with whom Valentine becomes dangerously involved Meanwhile Louisa finds that freedom of choice is as daunting as it is exciting Will the opportunity to indulge in a little folly lead to fulfillmentor disaster A Little Folly is a novel to make Jane Austen proud and Georgette Heyer envious An acclaimed author of historical fiction Jude Morgan weaves together the very best of Regency era writing with refreshingly original characters an intriguing plot and an elegantly ironic style RT Book Reviews on Indiscretion In this exciting new novel Morgan delivers a story that yet again will bring cheers from critics and readers alike
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The sequel to the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling original graphic novel is here with TEEN TITANS EARTH ONE VOL 2Picking right up after the cliffhanger ending to the first volume Cyborg Beast Boy Terra and Aqualad are in desperate straitstheyre homeless destitute and on the run from Cadmus the project that created them Unfortunately Cadmus has more surprises up its sleeve and a whole new set of teenage weapons with none of the bothersome morals of the originalsFrom writer Jeff Lemire SWEET TOOTH ANIMAL MAN and illustrator Andy McDonald comes the highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed original graphic novel in TEEN TITANS EARTH ONE VOL 2
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