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Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099537826ISBN 13: 9780099537823
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first novel in Ellroy's extraordinary Underworld USA Trilogy as featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read. 1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Pete Bondurant - Howard Hughes's right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell - a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy's drive against organised crime. The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men's hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamours for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963. 592 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099539098ISBN 13: 9780099539094
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Emphasizing the importance of the future and those who will live through it, this statement seeks to address the lessons that can be learned from the past. Striving to prevent the next generation from making the same mistakes as its predecessors, this recollection highlights those who struggled for justice and inspired the author in his daily work. Disentangling the real questions from the day-to-day business of politics, this autobiography lends strength to the two fires that have burned from the beginning of time--the flame of anger against injustice and the flame of hope. 176 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099534681ISBN 13: 9780099534686
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family. The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong-willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing . At the dawn of the new millennium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events that will have readers laughing out loud. Tom Sharpe's trademark humour abounds in this new novel, marking him out once again as an outstanding and unique British storyteller. 272 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099514591ISBN 13: 9780099514596
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - __________________________________'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series__________________________________The sixteenth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross seriesThey've come for Detective Alex Cross's family. Now he's coming for vengeance.At a family celebration, Alex Cross hears the shocking news that his niece Caroline has been murdered. Grieving and furious, Cross's investigation takes him to Washington D.C.'s wild underground subcultures - and reveals that Caroline wasn't this killer's only victim.Partnering with his girlfriend, Detective Brianna 'Bree' Stone, Cross finds himself confronting a world of unchecked power, where the capital's most powerful people are hiding dirty, dangerous secrets that they'll stop at nothing to protect.As they close in on the killer, the evidence begins to point to the unimaginable - a revelation about a very powerful man that could rock the entire world. 496 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099549492ISBN 13: 9780099549499
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p\*\*stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the cash dispenser, the work of the great and the not-so-great is here sent up with little hope of coming down. 112 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099537834ISBN 13: 9780099537830
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963.Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan.This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. The Cold Six Thousand is historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece. 688 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099537796ISBN 13: 9780099537793
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the damned and the soon-to-be damned. WAYNE TEDROW JR: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to none. His journey will take him deeper into the darkness.DWIGHT HOLLY: Hoover's enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible crimes. As Hoover's power wanes, his destiny lurches towards Richard Nixon and self-annihilation.DON CRUTCHFIELD: a kid, a nobody, a wheelman and a private detective who stumbles upon an ungodly conspiracy from which he and the country may never recover.All three men are drawn to women on the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; all are compromised and ripe for destruction. Blood's a Rover is an incandescent fusion of fact and fiction, and is James Ellroy's greatest masterpiece. 656 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0099520265ISBN 13: 9780099520269
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Claudia and her younger sister, Jenny, live with their parents, Louisa and Cormack Muldoon, in their grandmother's house in Blodwen Street. They assume they are settled for life, but then Grandpa Muldoon has a seizure and begs his son to return to Kilnevin and the family croft.
Verlag: Cornerstone Jun 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 0434020486ISBN 13: 9780434020485
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour. She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy.