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A persuasive, original plot. Realism about the underside of modern life is combined with psychological insight in an excellent thriller."--Jessica Mann, Literary Review "A persuasive, original plot. Realism about the underside of modern life is combined with psychological insight in an excellent thriller."--Jessica Mann, Literary Review

As a young child, Mark Johnson and his siblings would turn up to school battered and bruised by their alcoholic father, but no one ever investigated their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks and kept on falling for years. He was stealing at the age of six, was drinking by the age of eight, and took his first hit of heroin when he was just eleven. A sensitive and intelligent boy, art college beckoned, but he ended up in prison inste...

With the possible exception of the expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s, no single group of American literary figures has achieved as much fame or notoriety as the New York sophisticates who met to match wits and attempt to outshine each other as members of what came to be called the Algonquin Round Table. The humorists Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, playwrights Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman, novelists Edna Ferber and Ale...

The vivid and emotional story of one soldier's heroic struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Commissioned exclusively for this anthology and featuring the bestselling, always compelling mystery writer Michael Connelly, as well as his broody LAPD police detective Harry Bosch, and such award-winning, A-list talents in the field of crime fiction as Terence Faherty, Gar Anthony Haywood, Dick Lochte, Stuart Kaminsky, and Bill Pronzini, this collection of Hollywood tales sets a literary Klieg light on the most famous intersection in moviela...

A bluesy neo-noir crime thriller pitting an Iraq war vet against the Chicago mob. A veteran of the war in Iraq, where he suffered extreme injury, and a refugee from a sad Kentucky family history, Tommy McClain places his faith in a beat-up blue Chevy and his future in the city of Chicago. He's got a friend there he can count on. What he doesn't count on is Lisa DePietro. She's pretty, openhearted, with dark eyes you could drown in, and she's...

Originally published in French as: Les bonheurs de Sophie: une initiation a la philosophie en 30 mini-lecons.

Michael Rose exposes a grim reality: Iraqi insurgents have adoptedthe same guerrilla warfare tactics used during the American Revolution.

One man links The Deer Hunter, Blade Runner, The Italian Job, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man and The Man Who Fell To Earth. Producer Michael Deeley, an urbane Englishman in Hollywood, had to fight wars to get these movies made, from defending the legendary sex scene of Don't Look Now from a disapproving Warren Beatty to seizing control of Convoy from a cocaine- ridden Sam Peckinpah. This is a no-holds-barred look at the true stories behind som...

This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his well-traveled wolf. After acquiring Brenin as a cub, it quickly became apparent that Breinin was never to be left alone, as the consequences to Mark's house and its contents were dire. As a result, Brenin and Mark went everywhere together-from classroom lecture to Ireland, England, and France. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerte...

The best mystery and crime fiction ever produced by African-American writers.

An intimate memoir that provides a unique perspective on the lifeand legacy of Stieg Larsson, author of The Millennium Trilogy.

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U2 is the biggest band in the world, has sold over 120 million records, played over one thousand concerts in thirty-one countries, and reached number one on the charts with nine studio albums. The sheer longevity and worldwide success of this Irish rock band, with no change in lineup or manager, continues to confound the critics. Visnja Cogan delves into the personal story of U2, beginning with the members' backgrounds, their days in the 1970s...

In this eye-opening book, a grim truth is revealed about the ongoing war between the U.S. and Iraq: while the U.S. forces are trained for conventional warfare, Iraqi insurgents have adopted the same guerilla tactics used in the American Revolution.

In the past ten years, it's become obvious that crime and mystery fiction has become the most popular form of entertainment for literary and television audiences alike. And as more readers are discovering, mystery fiction isn't limited to the longer forms. Some of the most enjoyable, startling, and memorable crime and mystery fiction can be found in the shorter lengths.

From the author of "The Patient's Eyes" comes the latest thrilling episode of Holmesian mystery after a number of women fall victim to bizarre assaults in Edinburgh brothels.

Kenneally makes the priesthood a thrilling, cut-throat world, with ambition, power, greed and treachery all thrown in. His underworld is wonderfully shadowy. . . . ("The Remnant" is) a slickly stylized thriller--"Sunday Tribune" (Dublin).

The most intriguing riddle mysteries in literary history, including tales from Bradbury, Dahl, Huxley, O. Henry, and Twain Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continually arresting collection come with an irresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, the reader, to determine how they end. For ultimately it's the reader who authors the fate of the brave youth as he contemplates which of the tw...

Chester Himes, the greatest hardboiled crime writer since Raymond Chandler, is back in print with Pegasus Books. After arriving on the American literary scene with novels of scathing social protest like "If He Hollers Let Him Go" and "The Lonely Crusade, " Chester Himes created a pioneering pair of dangerously effective African-American sleuths, Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, Harlem's toughest detective duo, must carry the day agai...