Message From Malaga


Book Description

"That delay in the delivery of the message from Málaga could have been absolutely disastrous. As it was, there had been irreparable loss: an agent dead." Under the Mediterranean sun, a drama begins in a cafe in Málaga. For Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter, but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier, a stranger to the deadly world of espionage, must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent. Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape, he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust...







Decision at Delphi


Book Description

Trust, thought Strang, is more than a delicate business when involved politics are at stake. When Kenneth Strang, a young New York architect, is dispatched to the Mediterranean to sketch ancient ruins for a national travel magazine, he believes the trip is just another routine assignment. However, during his journey from Athens to Sparta - and at last to Dephi - he becomes involved with a dangerous conspiracy that threatens both Strang and his photographer companion, Cecilia Hillard. For Strang, danger is no object, but when he fell in love with the beautiful Cecilia, he gave his enemies the one weapon they needed




Rose of Málaga


Book Description

Rose, a quiet and unassertive young violinist at the New England Conservatory is in love with the esteemed Maestro Johansson. However, when their love affair is exposed, Rose abandons the rehearsal room and tries to adapt to her suburban hometown but instead faces a vicious cycle of self-destruction and loneliness. When she finds the pressures to maintain her success and the restlessness of her life unbearable, she retreats to an undiscovered world. Rose finds herself reaching out to be what seems the least likely people in her life for inspiration and soon becomes fiercely independent and liberated by a journey all her own. A story about a young woman's romantic coming-of-age, Rose of Malaga takes us to that distant place of a young woman's first, hopeless, and heroic love.




Reading in History


Book Description

A collection of essays that offer a methodological framework for the history of reading. Focusing on a specific historical moment, it gathers statistics about such issues as literacy rates, library subscriptions, publication and sales figures, and print runs to answer questions about what was being read and by whom in a particular place and time.













Message Handling Systems


Book Description