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In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it—if he lives long enough!
Author : F. Van Wyck Mason
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1479442895
In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it—if he lives long enough!
Author : Francis Van Wyck Mason
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Van Wyck Mason
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479444601
In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it--if he lives long enough!
Author : Francis van Wyck Mason
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Hong Kong (China)
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Author : Francis Van Wyck Mason
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Graham Andrews
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,55 MB
Release : 2023-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476647631
This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper's Harvey Birch, based on a real-life counterpart, appeared in his novel The Spy in 1821. While Harvey Birch's British rivals dominated spy fiction from the late 1800s until the mid-1930s, American spy fiction came of age shortly thereafter. The spy boom in novels and films during the 1960s, spearheaded by Bond, heavily influenced the espionage genre in the United States for years to come, including series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Matt Helm. The author demonstrates that, while American authors currently dominate the international spy fiction market, James Bond has cast a very long shadow, for a very long time.
Author : Guy M. Townsend
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1434403890
The Mystery Fancier, Volume 4 Number 6, November/December 1980, contains: "Spy Series Characters in Hardback, Part V," by Barry Van Tilburg, "Favorite Magazine Issues: Manhunt (3:6)," by Jeff Banks, "Old Time Radio Lives," by Carl Larsen, "Pow-Wo on the Potomac (Bouchercon)," by John Nieminski, and "Bouchercon Scrapbook," commentary by Guy M. Townsend.
Author : Robin Winks
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526123533
Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.
Author : Janet G. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838909671
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Author : Kate Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
In this unique and engrossing story, Kate Whitehead shows how murders committed in Hong Kong reflect various aspects of its life. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in Hong Kong, Chinese culture and society, and psychology.