Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: New York : Fromm International, 2000., 2000
ISBN 10: 0880642203 ISBN 13: 9780880642200
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Fromm International ed. ; ix, 276 pp. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0880642203; 9780880642200 LCCN: 00-28029 ; OCLC: 43599142 ; LC: E169.04; Dewey: 973.92 ; black cloth with metallic red lettering, photographic dustjacket ; ".[I]n the tradition of Bill B ryson and P. J. O'Rourke, Jeffreys takes us on a rarely-seen tour of the underbelly of our culture recorded with a sure sense for telling detail, the hilarious, the colorful, and the grotesque."--dustjacket ; FINE/FINE. Book.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Ballantine Books, New York, 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0345505492 ISBN 13: 9780345505491
Anbieter: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; x, 436 pages : map ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780345505491, 0345505492 OCLC 781434346 ; black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation by the author on the title page to Chief Justice George Holmes Carley (1938-2020). Carley's father, Maj. George L. Carley, Jr. (1908-1986), was a member of the United States Public Health Service and while posted in Rangoon, Burma, His son, George Carley, attended the eighth and ninth grades at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India, from 1951 to 1953. He himself served in the United States Army, on active duty in 1956 and then in the Reserve until 1960. He received his A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1960 and his LL.B. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1962, becoming a "Double Dawg". He married Sandra Marie Lineberger (1940-2025), a well-known Atlanta interior designer. George H. Carley was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1993 by then-Gov. Zell Miller. In May 2012, he was sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice, serving as leader of Georgia's judicial system until Dec. 31, 2012 ; Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address. Logging on, he's shocked to see Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who's saved his life more than once, being tortured at the hands of a mysterious man who has a single demand: Bring me the artifact she's asked you to keep safe. The only problem is, Malone doesn't have a clue what the man is talking about, since Cassiopeia has left nothing with him. So begins Malone's most harrowing adventure to date-one that offers up astounding historical revelations, pits him against a ruthless ancient brotherhood, and sends him from Denmark to Belgium to Vietnam then on to one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world: the tomb of China's First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, which has inexplicably remained sealed for more than two thousand years-its mysteries about to be revealed.; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.