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The Seersucker Whipsaw
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Author : Ross Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers
Release Date : 2011-10-04
The Seersucker Whipsaw written by Ross Thomas and has been published by Overamstel Uitgevers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Fiction categories.
An old-school Southerner is recruited to run a political campaign in a dangerous African election Clinton Shartelle doesn’t seem like a good choice to run a political campaign in Albertia. For one thing, he’s American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the English Crown. For another, Shartelle is Southern and fiercely proud of it, and his ideas about racial politics veer unpredictably from progressive to rigidly old-fashioned. But Shartelle is the best, and the political future of Albertia is too important to be left to anyone else. If history is any indication, this first fair election will probably be the country’s last. Rich natural resources make it attractive to businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic, opening Albertia up to political corruption. For his part, Shartelle is hired to make sure that a British industrialist’s favored candidate wins the presidency. But the opposition is backed by the CIA, for whom murder is just another political tool.
The Seersucker Whipsaw
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Author : Oliver Bleeck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Seersucker Whipsaw written by Oliver Bleeck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
Seersucker Whipsaw
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Author : Ross Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Seersucker Whipsaw written by Ross Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
African Settings In Contemporary American Novels
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Author : Dave Kuhne
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-05-30
African Settings In Contemporary American Novels written by Dave Kuhne and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Africa has long captured the Western imagination as a land shrouded in danger and mystery. British and American novels written before World War II established popular conventions and stereotypes about Africa that have been increasingly challenged by contemporary American novels set in Africa. Kuhne's book overviews the ways in which Africa has been employed as a powerful setting for American novels written since World War II. Kuhne argues that contemporary American novels with African settings are largely didactic, that these novels convey specific lessons about Africa and Africans, and that they compare African and American cultures in order to evaluate and critique the two worlds. The book begins by summarizing the conventions and themes Westerners have traditionally associated with Africa and by detailing how British and American authors from Aphra Behn to Ernest Hemingway depicted Africa before World War II. It then looks at contemporary American novels set in invented African nations, novels that typically suggest that the problems that trouble actual African nations are the result of colonialism. A separate chapter then examines the African novels of African Americans, which generally aim to correct the historical record, refute stereotypes, and detail the horrors of the slave trade. The volume also looks at genre fiction set in Africa, while a final chapter discusses postcolonial novels with African settings.
Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers
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Author : NA NA
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-25
Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers written by NA NA and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Fourth Durango
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Author : Ross Thomas
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2007-04-01
The Fourth Durango written by Ross Thomas and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Fiction categories.
The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state supreme court, followed by son-in-law Kelly Vines to act as his emissary to the beautiful and savvy mayor. Following them come a false priest, and a run of murders. It takes a Ross Thomas to stir these characters into a witty and ingenious mix readers will not be able to -and certainly would not want to-resist.
Perdition U S A
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Author : Gary Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Perdition U S A written by Gary Phillips and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Fiction categories.
Black private eye Ivan Monk’s search for a connection between three Black men murdered in Los Angeles leads to the unraveling of a white supremacist conspiracy that spans the West Coast. The mystery series that launched Gary Phillips's career. Robert “Scatterboy” Williams is a small-time hustler selling bogus Cartier watches in Pacific Shores, a port city south of Los Angeles. One day, he’s gunned down in the street, seemingly at random. Then drug dealer Ronny Aaron is shot and killed leaving a liquor store. Shortly thereafter, college student Jimmy Henderson is rendered comatose after two bullets to his body. The three victims have nothing in common save the neighborhood where they were shot—and the color of their skin. The police categorize Scatterboy’s murder as business as usual. But his girlfriend convinces private eye Ivan Monk to find the killer. What looks like three unrelated shootings of Black men in Southern California will put Monk on a tortuous trail unraveling a larger nefarious plan: the rise of an extremist demagogue.
Covert Capital
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Author : Andrew Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2013-08-02
Covert Capital written by Andrew Friedman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-02 with History categories.
The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales. American Crossroads, 37
Mysteries Of Africa
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Author : Eugene Schleh
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1991
Mysteries Of Africa written by Eugene Schleh and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
"Using the highly popular genre of detective/mystery fiction, this volume explores the insights available in African centered stories. The sample of writings used ranges from the colonial era to the present and covers the work of both Africans and outside observers from Europe and North America".--BOOKJACKET.
The Fools In Town Are On Our Side
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Author : Ross Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2007-04-01
The Fools In Town Are On Our Side written by Ross Thomas and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Fiction categories.
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" -- Mark Twain Ross Thomas chose the quotation from Huckleberry Finn as the text of his post World War II story as well as for the title. When Lucifer Dye is released from three months in a Hong Kong prison, debriefed, handed a false passport, a new wardrobe and a $20,000 check, his haughty control makes it clear that Dye's career with his country has been permanently terminated. But a good agent is always in demand, and just a few hours later Dye is being interviewed for a highly ingenious position. Victor Orcutt, although a not very good imitation of a British pre-war gent, has creative talents of his own. He has his sights a small southern city, with the ordinary run-of-the-mill corruption one would expect in such a place. The canny Orcott knows there's no profit in that . His creed is "To get better, it must be much worse." He and his two associates have looked up Dye's history, and he now offers the ex-spy's a mission. For two and a half times the government's bounty, Dye is to thoroughly corrupt the town. And the sly Dye takes the offer.