Book Description
Fantomas returns to strike fear into the hearts of American readers with a new, even more vicious and mystifying series of crimes, and again comes up against his arch nemesis, Inspector Juve."
Author : Pierre Souvestre
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Fantomas returns to strike fear into the hearts of American readers with a new, even more vicious and mystifying series of crimes, and again comes up against his arch nemesis, Inspector Juve."
Author : Pierre Souvestre
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345352972
Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497685540
The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1438109121
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author : Wade Tarzia
Publisher : Wade Tarzia
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1403361460
Author : Richard Moran
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307425800
A "fascinating and provocative" story (The Washington Post) of high stakes competition between two titans that shows how the electric chair developed through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.
Author : Edward Smallwood
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1837
Category :
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Author : Edward Smallwood
Publisher :
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 1837
Category :
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Author : Edward Smallwood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2024-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385616204
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
Author : Walter Thornbury
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1881
Category : London (England).
ISBN :