Political / legal thriller
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon The Taliban in Texas
Book SynopsisJoey Torino is a man who has tired of the busy, and dangerous, life he has led, and has simply decided to opt out. He is done with all that-the pressures of doing something that someone else wants him to do, the risks of doing things he questions, resents, or even disagrees with. And he has managed to escape that life, quietly, without fanfare or animosity, and with just enough income to be able to live, in the northern forests of Maine, in the secluded, modest style he prefers. And he is happy in his simple life here.But then a message from his past arrives. Pen Highsmith has another difficult mission for him, and although those dangerous episodes in Russia are long past now, Joey's "special skills" are needed again.Joey faces a difficult situation, involving the Russians, a complicated low-key civil conflict, ancient suspicions and animosities, and a ruthless, relentless enemy, hidden in the mountains-in Afghanistan. And the monumental investments of the Wilde Oil company might be put at risk, under certain circumstances and in some situations.There are clear risks, and potential dangers, which have to be dealt with and surmounted, in a country, in a region, which is complicated and potentially dangerous. So Highsmith reaches out to Joey Torino.
£16.20
Bergli Books Ltd Swiss Democracy In A Nutshell
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Next Chapter May It Please The Court
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El crimen de la Magistrada / The Magistrate's
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£17.56
Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V. Mindhunter: Cazador de Mentes.
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£14.24
Aiora Press Never Go to the Post Office Alone
Book Synopsis?Great historical events are never anonymous -- they sweep anyone in their path into the fray. Kevin Danaher, a foreign correspondent in Moscow, will discover exactly that, as he queues at the city's central post office one morning in 1989, waiting to send a fax to his newspaper in New York. How could he know that the beautiful East German woman standing in front of him was the means chosen by fate to throw him onto the stage of world history? With the Soviet Union collapsing and the Berlin Wall about to fall, this moment of history would change the world, and Kevin's life, forever. Stelios Kouloglou, himself a correspondent in Moscow at the time, blends fact and fiction in this compelling political thriller, as he guides us through the human side of history.Trade ReviewA witty, multilayered story ... for anyone who wants to know what Moscow was like in the twilight hours of Communism. - BRUCE CLARK / Times Literary SupplementNever Go To The Post Office Alone is a real political thriller in the fine tradition of John Le Carré. - Demosthenis Kourtovik / newspaper Ta Nea
£12.34
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Clear Line of Fire
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£5.96
Low Price Publications Beyond Twilight: A Thriller with Backlash of
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£28.12
Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. La estratagema
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£21.99
Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. Por ley superior
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£18.80
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Carta de un ateo guatemalteco al Santo Padre / Letter from a Guatemalan Atheist to the Holy Father
£22.65
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El despertar de la herejía / The Second Sleep
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Edhasa Teoría general del olvido
Book Synopsis For years Ludovica Fernandez Mano has been afraid to leave their home She lives indoors with her sister, but when her sister falls in love and marries, they move in with her new husband. One night the couple attends a party. The hours pass, the days pass and the couple hasn’t returned. Ludovica removes the door and raises a wall closing hesrelf in without thinking of what tomorrow will be like, only being accompanied by a dog. Beyond the walls there is a boiling world. In the three decades of isolating herself inside, Angola lives like heaven and hell: The illusion of liberation; the corrosive breakthrough of capitalism; the corruption; the greed, the vengeance. Inevitably, scraps of that world enter the house, altering and keeping her alive, preparing Ludovica for the final surprise.
£21.99
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Hermanos, enemigos / The Savages 2: The Spectre
£27.58
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La diabla en el espejo / The She-Devil in the Mirror
£21.49
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial En defensa de Jacob / Defending Jacob
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Alianza La Hoguera
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£18.18
Aarluuk Press The Bolivian Girl
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Aarluuk Press Arctic State
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Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Song of the Golden Sparrow: A Novel History of
Book SynopsisGuilty of the crime of sleeping on the job, the lowly yaksha Prem Chandra Guha, is banished to India on a punishment posting. During his stay here, he must write a sufficiently riveting history of the land of his exile. Prem Chandra arrives in India on the first dawn of her independence and fate brings him to Netarhat, an obscure town near the forests of Chhota Nagpur. It is here that he meets Manhoos, an orphaned urchin who repairs motor vehicles for a living, and his friend Mary, a feisty tribal girl from the nearby Santhal village.Assuming the shape of a common sparrow, Prem Chandra turns into an unobtrusive observer and follows the fortunes of Manhoos and Mary as they travel to Calcutta, and then to Rishikesh, Bangalore, Ahmedabad As they plunge from one adventure to another, a series of figures play key roles in their lives: the Naxal leader Charu Majumdar; Satyajit Ray, in his crisp dhoti and clipped accent; the ever-giggling Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; the powerful business magnate, Ameer Premji; and even a mysterious man with a 56-inch chest.
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HarperCollins India Bestseller She Wrote
Book SynopsisMaster storyteller Ravi Subramanian delves into the glitzy world of bestsellers, and uncovers a risky dalliance between a superstar novelist and his alluring protege.
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Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Terror-Organisation: 'The Dawn of the True Islam'
Book SynopsisSamir and Siobhan, a young Dutch radical Muslim and a young Northern-Irish woman, are radicalising. Samir, from within the fundamentalist Islam, Siobhan from with the real IRA who co-operates with the terror-organisation: The Dawn of the True Islam. This international Islamic terror-organisation has developed a secret weapon: a tiny poisonous ball that is capable of destroying all life with a few minutes in a certain room or building. Siobhan is going to test the secret weapon after her training in the desert of Lybia on the murderer or her grandfather, who was killed during Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland. The murderer lives in the Algarve, Portugal. After a successful test the secret weapon is going to be used to commit terror attacks in Amsterdam, London and New York. The goal is to destroy the values of the Western World and to establish a Great Islamic Empire. Samir, who is apparently an excellent intern in a multicultural elderly home in Holland, is the contact person of the Dutch terrorcell (of the international Muslim terror-organisation) in Holland. On the inside he is a radicalised Muslim with a hurt ego. In the international Muslim terror-network he thinks he is taken seriously. Before Siobhan can test the secret weapon in Portugal she is abducted by the Israeli Mossad. She ends up in Israel. She can choose: either work with the Israelis to help in dismantling the international Muslim terror-organisation or she will be left on her own with all the consequences. In the meantime there are also terrorist attacks and threats in Amsterdam and London. It is bringing the two countries in a state of imbalance.
£15.26
The American University in Cairo Press Of Noble Origins: A Palestinian Novel
Book SynopsisThe Qahtan are a Palestinian family that claims to have originated in the Arabian Peninsula, descended from the family of the Prophet Muhammad. This connection has given its members a certain ascendancy in their society, and has influenced their cultural and political choices. The true test occurs when the Qahtanis, like other Palestinians, confront two enemies after the First World War: the British Mandate and the Zionist movement. Observing the gradual and increasing illegal Jewish immigration and land appropriation, the Palestinians come to realize they have been betrayed by a power that "fulfilled their promises to the Jews and reneged on their promises to the Arabs." Sahar Khalifeh brings to the forefront the inner conflicts of Palestinian society as it struggles to affirm its cultural and national identity, save its threatened homeland, and maintain a semblance of normalcy in otherwise abnormal circumstances.
£19.86
The American University in Cairo Press Munira's Bottle: A Saudi Arabian Novel
Book SynopsisIn Riyadh, against the events of the second Gulf War and Saddams invasion of Kuwait, we learn the story of Munirawith the gorgeous eyesand the unspeakable tragedy she suffers as her male nemesis wreaks revenge for an insult to his character and manhood. It is also the tale of many other women of Saudi Arabia who pass through the remand center where Munira works, victims and perpetrators of crimes, characters pained and tormented, trapped in cocoons of silence and fear. Munira records their stories on pieces of paper that she folds up and places in the mysterious bottle given to her long ago by her grandmother, a repository for the stories of the dead, that they might live again. This controversial novel looks at many of the issues that characterize the lives of women in modern Saudi society, including magic and envy, honor and revenge, and the strict moral code that dictates malefemale interaction. Yousef al-Mohaimeed is a rising star in international literature. Muniras Bottle is a rich and skillfully crafted story of a dysfunctional Saudi Arabian family. One of its strengths lies in its edgy characters: Munira, a sultry, self-centered, sexually repressed woman; Ibn al-Dahhal, the bold imposter who deceives and betrays her; and Muhammad, her perpetually angry and righteous brother, a catalyst who forces the events. Western readers will welcome it for its opening door into Arab lives and minds.Annie Proulx Mohaimeed writes in a lush style that evokes a writer he cites as an influence, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. [He] takes on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world.
£10.99
The American University in Cairo Press Dates on My Fingers: An Iraqi Novel
Book SynopsisSaleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade. Noah looks and acts like a new man, and Saleem sets out to discover the mystery of his father's presence in Spain and his altered life. In doing so, he recalls formative moments in Iraq of familial love, war, and the haunting accidental death of his cousin Aliya, Saleem's partner in the hesitant, tender exploration of sexuality. When the renewed relationship with his father erupts in a violent conflict, Saleem is forced to rediscover his sense of self and the hard-won stability of his life. Through Saleem's experiences and reflections, the fast-paced narrative carries the reader between Spain and Iraq to a surprising resolution.Trade Review"A powerful portrait of an oppressed Iraq, Ramli's novel transforms incidents from the recent past into timeless fables, allowing readers to draw their own parallels."--India Stoughton, The Daily Star
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The American University in Cairo Press The Open Door: A Novel
Book SynopsisThe Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of sexual and political age, in the context of the Egyptian nationalist movement preceding the 1952 revolution. The novel traces the pressures on young women and young men of that time and class as they seek to free themselves of family control and social expectations. Young Layla and her brother become involved in the student activism of the 1940s and early 1950s and in the popular resistance to continued imperialist rule; the story culminates in the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Gamal Abd al-Nasser's nationalization of the Canal led to a British, French, and Israeli invasion. Not only daring in her themes, Latifa al-Zayyat was also bold in her use of colloquial Arabic, and the novel contains some of the liveliest dialogue in modern Arabic literature."Not only a great novel, but a literary landmark that shaped our consciousness."--Abdel Moneim Tallima "A great anticolonialist work in a feminist key."--Ferial Ghazoul "Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers."--Naguib MahfouzTrade Review"Absorbing . . . Superbly translated . . . Arguably the best modern [Egyptian] novel not written by Nobel laureate Mahfouz."—Kirkus Reviews"Recommended."—Choice"Latifa al-Zayyat greatly helped all of us Egyptian writers in our early writing careers."—Naguib Mahfouz"A pioneering work on many levels."—Al Jadid"A great anti-colonialist work in a feminist key."—Ferial Ghazoul"Not only a great novel, but a literary landmark that shaped our consciousness."—Abdel Moneim Tallima
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The American University in Cairo Press A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me: A Novel
Book SynopsisIn 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, to seek his fortune elsewhere. They fall in love, but trouble brews on the horizon. A bitter struggle rages over construction of the monumental Hassan II Mosque—it will destroy their neighborhood but the government insist this is a necessary sacrifice for the good of Morocco. The two young lovers find themselves caught up in events beyond their control, and in a world that seems to work against their happiness at every turn. A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me is a narrative tour de force: one of power plays and petty jealousies, deceit and corruption, written with masterful attention to detail.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation“The work of a master storyteller, A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me juxtaposes the grand designs of the privileged against the minutiae of the lives of the less fortunate in a passionate, furious work of protest against injustice. Set in the historical, working-class quarter of Casablanca, whose residents are being expelled to accommodate the construction of the new grandiose Hassan II Mosque, the novel centers on a tragic love story, which is traced in witty, playful and humane prose, including the use of local dialect. Overall, the tone of the novel is grand and classical, and this confers upon the book a certain furious dignity that has been brilliantly captured in Alexander E. Elinson’s sensitive and accomplished translation.” —Judges' comments, Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize"Fadel’s novel is deeply human and humane....astonishing" —Asymptote Journal"An ambitious novel in form, with captivating narrative and language, that poses questions beyond its immediate context.” —Mohamed Berrada, author of Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated"Masterfully translated . . . A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me will draw readers into a world that, on the surface, may be unfamiliar, but is, in fact immediately recognizable for what it reveals about our human desires, flaws and triumphs."—Elizabeth Nunez, author of Prospero’s DaughterPraise for Youssef Fadel:“[Fadel’s] books are full of hopeful, human interactions; through these, the reader is able to catch a glimpse of a better world.”—The New Yorker"An astonishing novel." —Le Monde Diplomatique"[Fadel is] a valued asset of modern Moroccan literature." —Aujourd'hui Le Maroc"A masterful history of modern Morocco."—bookshy"Reads like a taut and claustrophobic detective story."—Literary Hub"Fadel's novel brings out the importance of seeing one's place even in the darkest of times."—Wawa Book Review"Events progress rapidly with the acute tension of a detective novel." —The National
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Armida Publications Ltd From Beyond the Sea
Book SynopsisWhile many of the heroes of Greek literature of the pre and post-war era are caught up in the guiding national narrative and its myths, Dimitri is a person with more than one home. His story is a story of the Greek diaspora, one of curiosity, awakening, humorous observation, and the broadening of horizons. The second volume in Miltiades Hatzopoulos’ trilogy has Dimitri arriving in Paris in 1956, a stranger in a foreign land, bewildered and bemused, but soon swept up in the reality of a country he has so far learned about only through his reading of French medieval literature. A sophisticated French family welcome him into their confusingly shabby upper-class home, where he lodges together with a colourful cast of characters on the sixth floor.Now permanently exiled from Cyprus, Dimitri is committed to his adoptive country. Grateful for the opportunities that the French Republic has so generously bestowed upon him, he becomes a French citizen and volunteers for military service just as the political unrest of the 60s hits the streets of Paris. In counterpoint to his own inner turmoil, the French colonial war in Algeria, the Arab-Israeli War and the military coup in Greece all take place while he is in France, and meanwhile the tragedy of Cyprus continues to unfold. Dimitri’s humorous observation of life in the army is one of the many glories of this book, along with the fine descriptions of character, Paris and the provinces, the niceties of French society, the complexity of personal relations, and a vivid introduction to the politics of the time from a first-hand perspective. Historically enlightening and vivid, the book takes us along Dimitri’s own personal journey, which is defined and dictated by the events going on around him, as he grapples with a world that sweeps him along, amused, confused and enchanted.
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Diversified Publishing Coded Justice
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Independently Published Clear and Convincing Evidence
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Independently Published Natural Justice: A Legal Thriller
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Blackstone Publishing A True Verdict
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Large Print Press Never
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Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Company The Quantum Solution
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£36.70
Thorndike Press a Part of Gale a Cengage Company All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller
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£34.57
Thorndike Press Large Print The Secret Hours
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£36.22
Gale, a Cengage Group Dead Fall
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£21.59
Greenleaf Book Group Press The Blockchain Syndicate
£21.84
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC Los chicos de Biloxi / The Boys from Biloxi
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Austin Macauley The Best Way to Make Money
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Authors Equity Fade in
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