In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Along ... |
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Just as Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida’s governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce’s and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson’s injuries suggests ... |
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Can a killer ever go free? When sixteen-year-old Drew Gamble shoots dead the cop who was abusing his family, he becomes the most hated person in Clanton, Mississippi. The townsfolk expect Drew to be convicted and go to the gas chamber. It falls to Jake Brigance, Clanton's most famous lawyer, to defend the kid. However reluctant he is to put himself in the firing line, Jake is determined to do his best to save Drew. And, as the folk in Clanton already know, when Jake Brigance takes on a case, even a cut and dried one like this, anything can happen. ... |
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Размяната на Джон Гришам е продължение на феноменалния му бестселър Фирмата . ... Преди петнайсет години младият адвокат Мич Макдиър разкрива престъпната дейност на мемфиската фирма, която пере парите на мафията. Животът му е застрашен, затова той и съпругата му Аби бягат в чужбина. С 8 милиона долара, изтеглени от фирмената сметка на Кайманите. Сега опасностите сякаш са останали в миналото. Мич вече е съдружник в нюйоркска фирма с офиси по целия свят. Когато негов колега в Рим се разболява, той се съгласява да поеме най-важния му случай - съдебен иск на турска строителна фирма срещу Либия в огромен размер. И се ... |
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Трилърът, който направи Джон Гришам световноизвестен писател. ... Когато Мич Макдиър завършва правния факултет на Харвард трети по успех, той получава предложения за работа от престижни адвокатски фирми на Уолстрийт. Тази, която избира, е малка, но се радва на отлична репутация в Мемфис. И предлага на служителите си неща, за които Мич дори не е мечтал: висока заплата, беемве, чудесна къща. На подобна оферта просто не се отказва. Амбициозният млад адвокат и очарователната му съпруга Аби са на върха на щастието. Но съвсем скоро започват кошмарите - тайни досиета, бръмбари в новата спалня, следене на всяка крачка, ... |
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Джон Гришам се завръща в Мисисипи с история за две момчета от семейства на имигранти, отраснали като приятели, но озовали се от двете страни на закона. Две семейства. Един драматичен съдебен процес. През последните сто години Билокси се е прочул със своите плажове, курорти и риболовна индустрия. Само че градът на Мексиканския залив има и тъмна страна. Носи му се позорна слава заради ширещата се корупция, хазарт, проституция, контрабанда на алкохол, наркотици и поръчкови убийства. Порокът се контролира от неголяма група мафиоти, много от които са заподозрени като членове на мафията Дикси. Кийт Руди и Хю Малко са ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... This stunning Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Demelza features an afterword by novelist Liz Fenwick. Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter rescued from a fairground rabble, is now Ross Poldark's wife. But events are set to test their marriage and their love... Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry - and of her husband - bring her confusion and heartache, despite her joy at the birth of their first child. Meanwhile, Ross begins a bitter struggle for the rights of the mining communities, sowing the seed of ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in Bloomsbury and must be silenced. But even with his memory taken from him, he is still a very dangerous witness. A taut thriller and a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt, The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene is ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption. Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton's pre-war underworld, "Brighton Rock" by Graham Greene is both a ... |
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognisable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What’s more, Lime is dead, accusations of racketeering have been laid at his feet, and the circumstances of his demise look suspicious. Determined to uncover the truth, Martins starts asking questions, but soon begins to fear for his own life. Accompanied here by twelve further stories that exhibit the full range of Graham Greene’s masterly storytelling, "The Third Man" ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war - it is a city of nightmares. Hitler’s agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in Bloomsbury and must be silenced. Even with his memory taken from him, he is still a very dangerous witness. In the hands of Graham Greene , this tale unfolds both as a taut thriller and as a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt. ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted... But when the fake reports he's been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed. Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, "Our Man in Havana" is Graham ... |
