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Grieving over the loss of his beloved fiancee Charlie, the usually irrepressible Marcus Moon now focuses his attention on his civil engineering company, CONDES. Enter sinister businessman Sir Adrian Driver, with an offer to buy out Moon's company for a cool two million pounds. But when Moon and his partner Hugo Elmes refuse to play ball, they soon discover that the ruthless Sir Adrian is not a man to take no for an answer. Set Against a high-o...

Marcus Moon finds himself in and out of the country with a big Middle Eastern deal that could catapult his career. But things turn sinister and our hero decides that there's nothing else for it: trespassers will be mutilated.

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Excerpt from The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 6: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Throught of the Present Time Fennell, James, tragedian, was born in London, Dec. 11, 1766, and made his début as an actor in Edinburgh in 1787. Soon after he was seen as Othello at the Con...

Commissioned to design the prestigious 'Gateway to the Gulf' project, Marcus Moon and his co-director, Hugo Elmes, have a highly lucrative opportunity on their hands. But events do not run nearly as smoothly as they'd hoped. A lascivious beautiful blonde, crooked agents, an all-powerful Arab sheikh, a devious architect, Thai ladyboys, trade union skulduggery and the boys in the Frog and Nightgown, all come into play. To top it all, when the Or...

The charming little village of Winona Lake, Ind., is once again a tourist destination as lovers of art, culture, education, and good food come to experience life at the little artisan village nestled on the eastern shore of Winona (formerly Eagle) Lake in north-central Indiana. Winona is currently in its third wave of development and popularity. In its first wave--beginning in 1881 and culminating in Spring Fountain Park and the religious Chau...

White provides the most comprehensive scholarly compilation of fictional work of legal suspense in existence. Almost 2, 000 annotations and biographical synopses of major American, British, and European authors make this a unique reference work and essential acquisition for both the scholar of popular culture and the general reader. In addition, its appendices--such as Series Characters, References, and Craft Notes by novelists and trial lawye...

On September 14, 2001, Kent State University's Ashtabula campus sponsored the David K. Shipler Colloquium on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1998 book A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. This is a collection of 18 of the papers. The essays explore such topics as blacks and whites in the performing arts, racial profiling, racism in American baseball, race, work and wholeness, musical style as a symbol of black cultural identity, th...

Excerpt from Flowers From Arcadia: A Series of Rondeaux and Verses Showing the Various Flowers of Affection That Blossom by the Wayside of Life, Illustrated With Steel Engravings and Embellished With California Wild Flowers, A Christmas Greeting Eyes that shine with light serene, Mirrored from Love's happy skies, Like thine own, dear, - are, I ween, Sweetest eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare a...

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Excerpt from A Garden of Remembrance A Garden of Remembrance was written by James Terry White in 1918. This is a 147 page book, containing 17956 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

Excerpt from The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 3 Such a work of historical biography has never before been attempted. Previous works have either excluded the living, or limited them to a well-known few in the cen tres of activity. But this Cyclopaedia is unique. It has been prepared upon new lines which insure its being the biographical authority of the century. It is intended to make this Cyclopaedia National, representing...

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The national cyclopaedia of American biography is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanseb...

Set in London, Wiltshire and Orkney There Came A Big Spider sees the young Marcus Moon attempting to climb the ladder of success at his new company.Bitterly resented by a ruthlessly ambitious rival, they are thrown together to design a big government project near the small market town of Kingscastle.This town was site of the Saxon camp of Alfred the Great, and his treasure was lost when the Danes invaded WIltshire.Marucs is asked to minimize t...

Grieving over the loss of his beloved fiancee Charlie, the usually irrepressible Marcus Moon now focuses his attention on his civil engineering company, CONDES. Enter sinister businessman Sir Adrian Driver, with an offer to buy out Moon's company for a cool two million pounds. But when Moon and his partner Hugo Elmes refuse to play ball, they soon discover that the ruthless Sir Adrian is not a man to take no for an answer.Set against a high-oc...

More from the irresistible Marcus Moon: civil engineer, wanton lover, and protector of all things 'Moon', especially when it comes to his long-suffering girlfriend, Charlie. With her attentions seemingly being diverted by upper class socialite D'Arcy Lyell, Marcus finds himself in and out of the country with a big Middle Eastern deal in the offing that could catapult his career. Not able to keep his eye fully on his prizes, he must ensure the ...

Marcus Moon and his company, CONDES, are back to take on another job - a lucrative port design project in the remote Indian Ocean. Typically, things don't go according to plan and they unwittingly become embroiled in a dodgy enterprise involving crooked MPs and greedy government officials.As ever, the Moon nose sniffs out the rotten apple in the form of Nobby Garside - MP for Mexborough East and deputy chairman of the Department for Internatio...

After five long years of hard work, Marcus Moon and his co-director are about to celebrate the closing of a deal worth $2 million... then they discover they have been well and truly shafted by Mazin Al Jabril, their shrewd Middle Eastern agent.Marcus devises and executes a clever plan to recover their money and stuff Mazin in this very funny story of greed, revenge and romance.