Blaine McCracken, former government agent turned international troubleshooter, is on the trail of an international slaughter spree. He's as ruthless and resourceful as they come when battling evil, but he may have met his match. From the distant...
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This is a searing short novel, built of the interlocking fates of a badger-baiter and a disconsolate farmer, unfolding in a stark rural setting where man, animal, land and weather are at loggerheads. Their two paths converge with tragic...
Now available for the first time in English, this important addition to the Roth canon is rich in irony and exemplary of Roth's keen powers of social and political observation.
A novel fragment that was discovered among Joseph Roth's papers...
Charlotte d'Aubigne
Lottie came to her father's home in France a girl - but with a woman's beauty and desires. Lonely for her beloved English countryside, estranged from the boy she had always adored, she was soon to be swept away by the...
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 Shortlisted for New Writer of the Year in the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a...
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so...
Despite the wide-ranging action, these stories are unified by spare dialogue, tight plot development and a deadpan irony which is in evidence...
TOWARDS ARMAGEDDON…
During a US presidential campaign, anarchists force the Russian government into exile and menace the world’s capitals with terrorism. Police crackdowns meant to stifle the onslaught cause rioting in America’s...
In the 1970s two brothers came back from the Vietnam war with a souvenir—a garrote. When the city of Houston is terrorized by a serial killer, and a rookie cop’s son is abducted and murdered, it is paramount to stop what the media calls the...