Muller wants to avenge his parents, but he also wants to destroy the Semper, who have despatched professional killers to get him, and his entire team. Hedi Meyer, the electronic genius goth, is the latest to be hit. Muller's investigations again take him to Western Australia, to the isolated Woonnalla Station in the Kimberley outback, to find the Hargreaves, who possesses information dangerous enough to the precipitate the eventual downfall of the Semper. But the Semper have despatched one oftheir most accomplished and highly successful assassins to stop him.
Under the strain, in this psychically terrifying thriller, the Sultan maintains his hidden secrets but realizes his soon to be demised situation could lead to the danger of the one other thing he cares for the most.
Henri Devos was stretched back in a reclining sun chair, one stamped with the green-and-white logo of Holiday Inn, ... Moon Child wore Moe Howard bangs and a T-shirt that had been washed into cheesecloth and showed her nipples.
In material terms, the hunters have been all but vanquished, yet in this profound and passionate book, Brody utterly dispels the notion that theirs is a lesser way of life."--Jacket.
Edward Sapir, “The Status of Linguistics as a Science,” in David G. Mandelbaum, ed., Selected Writings of Edward Sapir ... Perhaps the most influential of such analyses has been historian Lynn White Jr.'s much-reprinted essay “The ...
A breathtakingly spare and shattering novel that explores the unseen aftereffects—and unacknowledged casualties—of war, Waiting for Eden is a piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty, friendship, betrayal, and love. ...
Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press.
Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives.
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has ...
This is the story of one man's unflinching resolve and success in righting a public wrong, of a Cornishman looking to the glory of his nation and finding that enthusiasm, brilliant ideas and promises are not always enough.
All twelve years of Eden's life have been spent in an antique oil lamp.