Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146751
Hugo Greest has a TV adventure series. Unexpectedly he is approached by the Foreign Office. It seems that a Sheik is in the middle of a small war needs a military advisor and wants Hugo for the job. Of course, the international arms trade is involved, and of course there is much more to the post than at first apparent ...
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146727
Hazlerigg, Bohun, Mercer and Petrella all feature in turn in this collection of eighteen short stories; police procedurals and action packed thrillers. Why did the man rob the bank? How could a man disappear in a deserted street? And sixteen more!
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075514676X
The slaughter of World War I in the trenches continues unabated. Luke Pagan finds himself in the Intelligence Corps, investigating an illegal organisation controlled by a Belgian, which is encouraging British soldiers to desert and move across to the German side. Pagan enters dangerous territory and faces disaster.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146867
Explosives destined for a terrorist bombing campaign are being smuggled into the UK. One plot is foiled but the security services suspect another. A seemingly unconnected problem occurs with race riots in London. The true extent of the nightmare facing the government and the solution depends on a single, quite astonishing, piece of evidence.
Author : Patrick Agte
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811733351
Accounts of what it was like to command a tank in combat Contains maps, official documents, newspaper clippings, and orders of battle Volume Two follows Michael Wittmann and his unit into Normandy to defend against the Allied invasion. A week after D-Day, Wittmann achieved his greatest success. On June 13, 1944, near Villers Bocage, the panzer ace and his crew attacked a British armored unit, single-handedly destroying more than a dozen tanks and preventing an enemy breakthrough. The exploit made Wittmann a national hero in Germany and a legend in the annals of war. He was killed two months later while attempting to repulse an Allied assault, but the book continues beyond his death until the Leibstandarte's surrender.
Author : Patrick Agte
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2006-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0811743365
German Panzer ace Michael Wittmann was by far the most famous tank commander on any side in World War II, destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns with his Tiger. In this continuation of his story, Volume Two follows Wittmann and his unit into Normandy to defend against the Allied invasion and provides maps, official documents, newspaper clippings, and orders of battle. A week after D-Day, Wittmann achieved his greatest success. On June 13, 1944, near Villers Bocage, the panzer ace and his crew attacked a British armored unit, single-handedly destroying more than a dozen tanks and preventing an enemy breakthrough. The exploit made Wittmann a national hero in Germany and a legend in the annals of war. He was killed two months later while attempting to repulse an Allied assault, but the book continues beyond his death until the Leibstandarte's surrender.
Author : Reeva S. Simon
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292723008
Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century, the books in this expansive study encompass spy novels and crime fiction, illustrating new connections between these genres and Western imperialism. Demonstrating the social implications of the popularity of such books, Reeva Spector Simon covers how the Middle Eastern villain evolved from being the malleable victim before World War II to the international, techno-savvy figure in today's crime novels. She explores the impact of James Bond, pulp fiction, and comic books and also analyzes the ways in which world events shaped the genre, particularly in recent years. Worldwide terrorism and economic domination prevail as the most common sources of narrative tension in these works, while military "tech novels" restored the prestige of the American hero in the wake of post-Vietnam skepticism. Moving beyond stereotypes, Simon examines the relationships between publishing trends, political trends, and popular culture at large—giving voice to the previously unexamined truths that emerge from these provocative page-turners.
Author : Jean-Marie Blas de Robles
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590516761
Winner of the Prix Médicis, this multifaceted literary novel follows the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher across 17th century Europe and Eleazard von Wogau, a retired French correspondent, through modern Brazil. When Eleazard begins editing a strange, unpublished biography of Kircher, the rest of his life seems to begin unraveling—his ex-wife goes on a dangerous geological expedition to Mato Grosso; his daughter abandons school to travel with her young professor and her lesbian lover to an indigenous beach town, where the trio use drugs and form interdependent sexual relationships; and Eleazard himself starts losing his sanity, escalated by loneliness, and his work on the biography. Patterns begin to emerge from these interwoven narratives, which develop toward a mesmerizing climax. Shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize and the European Book Award, and already translated into 14 languages, Where Tigers Are At Home is large-scale epic, at once literary and entertaining, that belongs in the company of Umberto Eco and Haruki Murakami.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755132270
Will Dylan is an electoral favourite, the government’s golden boy. Jonas Killey is a small-time lawyer – determined, uncompromising and obsessed. He is hounding Dylan in the hope of bringing him into disrepute. Jonas suddenly finds himself pursued by those who want him to keep quiet about one incident, but is determined the truth will be heard.
Author : Michael Gilbert
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755146573
More than a year after Cannon Whyte fell from the cathedral gallery, unease still casts a shadow over peaceful living in the Close. In a separate incident, head verger Appledown is being persecuted, before being found dead. Inspector Hazlerigg is called in. Investigations suggest someone connected to the cathedral is responsible.
