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Simon & Schuster Audio, 2002-10-01. Audio Cassette. Very Good. 0743527224 From Publishers Weekly Bowden follows two bestsellers (Black Hawk Down; Killing Pablo) with a tragicomic tale based on a series of articles he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a reporter for two decades. Joey Coyle, at 28, is down and out, amiable but aimless, an unemployed longshoreman from South Philly who, despite his cheerful exterior, has a gnawing sense of inadequacy that he masks with methamphetamine. In February 1981, Joey has a spectacularly lucky or spectacularly unlucky, as Bowden shows with the tale's unfolding day: driving with a couple of guys from the neighborhood, he finds two sacks containing $1.2 million in cash. Despite major media attention on the money's disappearance from an armored car, Coyle decides to keep it. What ensues is partly a police procedural (will the cops find Joey?), but the drama, as Bowden relates the story, lies mainly in Coyle's rapid, drug-mediated deterioration into panic and paranoia as he attempts to launder and stash the money. Bowden's narrative is succinct and fast-moving, spare but complete, and ends in a farcical trial, in which Coyle tries an insanity defense, followed by Hollywood's muddled attempt to turn the story into a feel-good movie starring John Cusack. The tale has a sad conclusion, as Coyle's attempt to live up to his new role as a kind of urban hero fails. This is a smaller tale than Bowden's earlier ones, but a satisfying one, smartly told. (Oct.) Forecast: As Bowden writes, who doesn't dream of finding $1 million? This should have wide appeal, aided by Bowden's reputation. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Bowden's newest effort recounts true events that happened in early 1980s Philadelphia to Joey Coyle, a drug-addled, down-and-out longshoreman. One day, while on the way to score drugs, Joey and his two buddies spotted an armored van that had just spilled over $1 million in unmarked bills out onto the street. Without a second thought, Joey got out of the car and snatched up the bags. By all accounts (but especially his), this was Joey's lucky day until his drug-induced paranoia set in and his troubles really started. His frantic and pathetic attempts to launder the money are carefully chronicled by Bowden (Black Hawk Down; Killing Pablo), who pieces together all the facts and tries (as best he is able) to retrace the steps of Coyle and others whom he subsequently involved in his laundering efforts. Bowden's quick and intense story is like a joyride in print, but while interesting it is not as essential a purchase as his other works. Recommended for larger collections. Rachel Collins, "Library Journal" Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title., Simon & Schuster Audio, 2002-10-01, Toronto: Worldwide Library. Very Good. 2004. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. No spine crease.. 0.94 x 6.46 x 4.09 Inches. 256 pages. A Sam McCain Mystery, No. 5. When a beautiful corpse is found in a gazebo during a class reunion party, lawyer Sam McCain hopes to avoid involving himself in the ensuing complexities. However, the victim is the troubled daughter of a prominent family, and when local bad boy David Egan is accused of her murder, McCain finds himself saddled with a new client . . .and another tale of small-town murder in Black River Falls, Iowa. But McCain's heartbreaking, drag-racing client dies a fiery death in a car crash -- an accident that becomes murder when it's discovered the car's brake lines were cut. Working to clear Egan's name, McCain follows a trail of shattered dreams, cheating spouses and dark secrets to a third body lying lifeless in a bath, and to a tale of murder that embraces the vast human emotions that drive lovers to love . . .and killers to kill. ., Worldwide Library, 2004, Vintage, 2006. Paperback. Very Good+. Meet Dexter Morgan. He's a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He's a handsome, though reluctant, ladies' man. He's polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He's also a sociopathic serial killer whose "D ark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment. Mind you, Dexter's the good guy in this story. Adopted at the age of four after an unnamed tragedy left him orphaned, Dext er's learned, with help from his pragmatic policeman father, to channel his "gift," killing only those who deal in death themselves. But when a new se rial killer starts working in Miami, staging elaborately grisly scenes that are, to Dexter, an obvious attempt at communication from one monster to an other, the eponymous protagonist finds himself at a loss. Should he help hi s policewoman sister Deborah earn a promotion to the Homicide desk by findi ng the fiend? Or should he locate this new killer himself, so he can expres s his admiration for the other's "art?" Or is it possible that psycho Dexte r himself, admittedly not the most balanced of fellows, is finally going co mpletely insane and committing these messy crimes himself? Despite his penchant for vivisection, it's hard not to like Dexter as his coldly logical personality struggles to emulate emotions he doesn't feel and to keep up his appearance as a caring, unremarkable human being. Breakout author Jeff Lindsay's plot is tense and absorbing, but it's the voice of Dexter and his reactions to the other characters that will keep readers glued to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, as well as mak., Vintage, 2006, -: Headline, 1991. Paperback. Good. -. Outline:- Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming.-> the publiser of this PAPERBACK book is Headline in 1991 it has null pages booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Headline, 1991, -: Arrow Books Ltd, 2001. Paperback. Good. -. Outline:- The year is 1925, and in Liverpool, Rose Ryder worships her father, a tram-driver. She nurses a secret dream of driving trams too, even though it`s not considered a job for women. Meanwhile, in Dublin, Colm O`Neill is happily settled - until his father gets a job working on the Liverpool-Birkenhead tunnel, and takes Colm across the water with him. When tragedy strikes and her beloved father is killed, Rose and her mother scrape a living by turning their home into a boarding house. And it is their boarding house which Colm and his father come to when they arrive in Liverpool. . --> Genre: Romance General-> the publiser of this PAPERBACK book is Arrow Books Ltd in 2001 it has null pages booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, Arrow Books Ltd, 2001, -: HarperCollins, 2003. Paperback. Good. -. Outline:- One of the country`s bestselling storytellers joins HarperCollins with her new page-turning drama about struggle and triumph over adversity The Beachcomber is the story of two people, each with a dream, each lonely in different ways, and just when everything seems to be coming right for them, fate steps in to turn their worlds upside down In the summer of 1952, two lonely people arrive in the pretty seaside hamlet of West Bay Strangers coming from very different backgrounds, they are there for the same reasons: to find peace of mind and the chance to start a new life A quiet, lonely man, Tom Troy has abandoned all his possessions and walked away from a highly paid job A year ago, he had a wife and two beautiful children, when suddenly his world was turned upside-down The car he was driving with his family was deliberately run off the seaside road high above the cliffs He was the only survivor The maniac driver - who Tom is sure intended to kill them all - has never been found Now, a year later, he needs to be alone to deal with the pain and contemplate his future Kitty Morris has tried to cling on to her zest for life and her sense of humour through times of pain and loneliness Recovering from her divorce, she seeks comfort in the arms of other men and parties But a shocking, revealing row with her mother is the final straw, and consequently when she inherits a rundown house in West Bay, she flees to Dorset For both Tom and Kitty, it seems there is hope of rebuilding their lives Yet even now, someone means to wreck both Tom and Kitty`s search for happiness People are jealous And a brutal killer is still on the looseSuddenly West Bay is not the peaceful place it was-> the publiser of this PAPERBACK book is HarperCollins in 2003 it has null pages booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK, HarperCollins, 2003, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967 McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1967. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; four dogeared page corners in rear. DJ: Near Fine; Price Clipped; light edge bumps and rubbing. Rose cloth boards and spine with gilt and white lettering on the spine. 216 pp 8vo. The author writes from her memories of 1948 India and its independence to 20 years later when she found India's proud dream of being a major nation has been killed by religious superstition, caste system, government corruption, and the weight of enormous poverty. The author fears that the daily realities of hunger, disease, indifference, and ignorance will drive the country to communism or fascism. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket., McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967, Kitabghar Prakashan, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 x 23 cm. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, takes us back to the spring in 1922, when wall street was booming and bootleggers were in business due to the alcohol ban. Nick travels to New York from the mid-west in order to become a bondsman. He takes residence in West Egg, next to a huge mansion which belongs to a mysterious Mr. Gatsby. Nick is reacquainted with Daisy and Tom Buchanan, a wealthy couple who lives across the bay from him. Nick befriends Gatsby, who is revealed to be infatuated with Daisy. Nick arranges for them to meet and they began to have an affair. Tom, who is also having an affair with a married woman, confronts Daisy and Tom and Daisy is forced to return to Tom. As Daisy and Gatsby drive off after-wards, they run over and kill Myrtle Wilson, Tom`s mistress. Tom lies to Myrtle`s husband and tells him that Gatsby was the driver, when in reality, Daisy was driving. Wilson shoots Gatsby at his home after-wards and then commits suicide. Nick is disillusioned with the life he planned for in New York and returns west to his home town. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby`s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby`s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him `great`, Nick reflects that the era of dreaming - both Gatsby`s dream and the American dream is over. Printed Pages: 132., Kitabghar Prakashan, 2015, Collins, UK, 2003. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 450 pages. Multiple copies of this title available. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are reasonably tanned. The country's bestselling saga writer joins HarperCollins with another page-turning drama about struggle and triumph over adversity. The Beachcomber is the story of two people, each with a dream, each lonely in different ways, and just when everything seems to be coming right for them, fate steps in to turn their worlds upside down. In the summer of 1952, two lonely people arrive in the pretty seaside hamlet of West Bay. Strangers coming from very different backgrounds, they are there for the same reasons: to find peace of mind and the chance to start a new life. A quiet, lonely man, Tom Troy has abandoned all his possessions and walked away from a highly paid job. A year ago, he had a wife and two beautiful children, when suddenly his world was turned upside-down. The car he was driving with his family was deliberately run off the seaside road high above the cliffs. He was the only survivor. The maniac driver - who Tom is sure intended to kill them all - has never been found. Now, a year later, he needs to be alone to deal with the pain and contemplate his future. Kitty Morris has tried to cling on to her zest for life and her sense of humour through times of pain and loneliness. Recovering from her divorce, she seeks comfort in the arms of other men and parties. But a shocking, revealing row with her mother is the final straw, and consequently when she inherits a rundown house in West Bay, she flees to Dorset. For both Tom and Kitty, it seems there is hope of rebuilding their lives. Yet even now, someone means to wreck both Tom and Kitty's search for happiness. People are jealous. And a brutal killer is still on the loose...Suddenly West Bay is not the peaceful place it was... Quantity Available: 2. Category: Fiction; Romance & Women's Fiction; ISBN: 000714606X. ISBN/EAN: 9780007146062. Inventory No: 13070021.. 9780007146062, Collins, 2003, England: Newsfield Publications, 1989. 82 pp. MLight wear. Cover art by Oliver Frey. This issue contains: Fiction: Driving Force by Stephen Gallagher; Come on in and Join Us by Guy N. Smith; and The Last Flight by Matthew Cage. Non-fiction: Fear Factor: Ken Russell; Daughters of Darkness - Ladies in the Literary Field; Super Mac - interview with Anne McCaffrey; It's Black and White - Dave Carson by Stephen Jones; The Dream Maker - Renny Harlin; Fantasy Favour - Robert Holdstock by Kim Newman; Carroll Part II - Jonathan Carroll; Blairing All - Linda Blair; Maniac Cop - Brian Campbell; and Tarot Tales from the Queen of the Cards - Rachel Pollack; along with the usual assortment of features and columns.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Oliver Frey;. 4to. Magazine., Newsfield Publications, 1989, Winston Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A.: John F Blair Pub, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $18.95. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spin, bright pages. 201 pages. - Publishers Weekly The undercurrents, both numinous and tragic, in the lives of grocery-store clerks, salesmen, janitors and other ordinary folk are revealed in this breathtaking second story collection (after A Dream of Old Leaves) from novelist Lott. Thanks to incisive, empathetic characterization and graceful prose, these 16 stories and one novella of often difficult situationsadultery, job loss, the death of a spouseexude energy and wisdom. In "How to Get Home," Paul, a salesman, is in the hospital, felled by a mysterious, life-threatening illness. Lott vivifies the strange details of such an experience: how time loses its coherence as Paul sleeps away entire days and watches soap operas where "People lived lives, worked, made love, killed one another, all simultaneously"; how recovery can dislocate a life as surely as sickness. An edgy lyricism inhabits "Lights," in which a young woman, tired of arguing with her husband, becomes almost transcendently aware of all the lights that surround her, and of their healing effect. In the novella, "After Leston," Lott reprises Jewel Hilburn, the title character of his novel Jewel, as the Mississippi native makes a life for herself and her retarded daughter in Redondo Beach after the death of her husband. Lott writes intelligent, poignant stories that distill the beautiful and painful truths of the everyday. (July) Library Journal These stories, culled from everyday life experiences, are not dramatic. Rather, they portray our struggles to survive the quiet challenges of daily existence. Lott's (Reed Beach, LJ 9/1/93) unpretentious characters could be any of us: Paul's self-esteem suffers when he loses his job; Lee and Carol look at houses they cannot afford; Jewel makes sacrifices for her mentally handicapped daughter; a husband realizes the complexities of adultery; a family pet dies; a widower grieves; a salesman ponders the death of an associate, brutally killed "on the route"; and a father takes his soon-to-be-driving teenagers to the site of a fatal accident. These "down home" folks work through their lives with smiles, tears, hope and despair. Recommended for larger collections.Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.., John F Blair Pub, 1996, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1946. Young Moderns. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), illus. endpapers, map illus. frontis., uncut, x + 308 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: When Captain Cook mapped the coast line of New Zealand in 1769 he left pigs behind, which multiplied exceedingly. After Captain Cook there came occasional whalers, who traded firearms with the Maoris and so helped them to kill each other. After the whalers came settlers. Gold was discovered and more settlers arrived. Children were born, whose native land was a country of unexplored mountain ranges, unbridged rivers, unfenced plains; a country of sunshine, wind, blue sky, and driving clouds. Then The long bright land of the Maoris began to make history. Bob Cornish was born into such a setting, to dream of the time when he would be old enough to have his own horse and dogs and sheep and ride across the plains to the distant mountains. The dream came true but at the end of school days, years after Bobs first meting on the plains with the old Scotch shelpherd, when Bob shared with Jock the secret of Jim Buchanan, the stock thief, and became the owner of the stumpy-tailed pup. This is a story only a New Zealander could write, one who knows his native land with the intimacy of childhood, yet looks back on his childhood with the wisdeom and humor learned from many lands., Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1946. Young Moderns., 1946, NEW YORK: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. FINE BOOK AND DUST JACKET. SOME SUNBURN ON THE TOP PAGES. Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming. A master storyteller, sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting. His characters sparkle with life. And his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns. - The San Diego Union-Tribune., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Romas -- Front Cover. 1/4 dark blue coloured cloth covered backstrip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 light blue coloured boards.Illustrated dustwrapper, by Romas, with white coloured titles to the front panel and white and yellow coloured titles to the backstrip.A novel that deals with psychoanalysis, dreams, madness and travel – all within a person's mind. In the near future you can enter a dreambean parlour, eat a cephalic apple and leave reality behind.But, a new apple arrives, and it doesn't just give temporary diversion – that drives people into full blown madness. Quinjin must find crew created the apple (and why), and, if at all possible kill it. Softening to the backstrip edges along with some fading. Bumping to the top book corners with rubbing of the lower book edges. Age toning of the textblock edges and panels. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. There is a 0.75" tear to the top left-hand corner of the rear panel. Rubbing to the dustwrapper with a little fading to the backstrip. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 274, [2] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Romas -- Front Cover. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 003062861X. ISBN/EAN: 9780030628610. Inventory No: 0117313. . 9780030628610, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984, Global Vision Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 x 23 cm. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, takes us back to the spring in 1922, when wall street was booming and bootleggers were in business due to the alcohol ban. Nick travels to New York from the mid-west in order to become a bondsman. He takes residence in West Egg, next to a huge mansion which belongs to a mysterious Mr. Gatsby. Nick is reacquainted with Daisy and Tom Buchanan, a wealthy couple who lives across the bay from him. Nick befriends Gatsby, who is revealed to be infatuated with Daisy. Nick arranges for them to meet and they began to have an affair. Tom, who is also having an affair with a married woman, confronts Daisy and Tom and Daisy is forced to return to Tom. As Daisy and Gatsby drive off after-wards, they run over and kill Myrtle Wilson, Tom`s mistress. Tom lies to Myrtle`s husband and tells him that Gatsby was the driver, when in reality, Daisy was driving. Wilson shoots Gatsby at his home after-wards and then commits suicide. Nick is disillusioned with the life he planned for in New York and returns west to his home town. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby`s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby`s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him `great`, Nick reflects that the era of dreaming - both Gatsby`s dream and the American dream is over. Printed Pages: 132. NA, Global Vision Press, 2015, Independently published, 2019. Paperback. New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches., Independently published, 2019, Independently published, 2019. Paperback. New. 120 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.28 inches., Independently published, 2019, New York. 1989. July 1989. Grove Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. ISBN:0802110924. Translated from the Spanish by Ann Tashi Slater & Andrew Hurley. 106 pages. hardcover. Cover: Bascove. Author photograph by Lizaro C. Carriles. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The two stories of this terrifying and beautiful novel converge on a single charged point in the lives of a Cuban mother and son. We first meet Old Rosa in the blazing ruins of her farmhouse, weeping tears that seem to have no beginning or end. As the fire spreads, her life passes before her, and we see her as a young woman, shy but firm in her chastity, then as a bride, mother, and mistress of her prosperous farm. Tall, proud, shrewd, she is always in control-of her husband, her children, her workers, her land, even her God. But when her oldest son runs off to join Fidel Castro’s rebels, her world begins to crumble, and when she finds her youngest son, Arturo, her favorite, her ‘brightest star,’ in bed with another boy, her despair burns more fiercely than the encroaching flames that drive this powerful story from present to past and back again. The second story, ‘The Brightest Star,’ finds this son imprisoned in one of Castro’s camps for homosexuals, where his life is unrelieved, mind-numbing labor and brutality. To survive, Arturo writes, on anything he can find, on paper bags and torn-off scraps of political posters and in the margins of stolen official documents. He writes to open a window of freedom, to preserve a dream of beauty and love, with such passion and soaring poetry that we can see the magnificent castles, the lush hanging gardens, the crystal palaces of his imagination - which always revolve, and dissolve, around the image of Old Rosa, their fateful confrontation, the house in flames, the charred body of his mother, the one who loved him enough to kill him. inventory #13022 ISBN: 0802110924., Kitabghar Prakashan, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 x 23 cm. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, takes us back to the spring in 1922, when wall street was booming and bootleggers were in business due to the alcohol ban. Nick travels to New York from the mid-west in order to become a bondsman. He takes residence in West Egg, next to a huge mansion which belongs to a mysterious Mr. Gatsby. Nick is reacquainted with Daisy and Tom Buchanan, a wealthy couple who lives across the bay from him. Nick befriends Gatsby, who is revealed to be infatuated with Daisy. Nick arranges for them to meet and they began to have an affair. Tom, who is also having an affair with a married woman, confronts Daisy and Tom and Daisy is forced to return to Tom. As Daisy and Gatsby drive off after-wards, they run over and kill Myrtle Wilson, Tom`s mistress. Tom lies to Myrtle`s husband and tells him that Gatsby was the driver, when in reality, Daisy was driving. Wilson shoots Gatsby at his home after-wards and then commits suicide. Nick is disillusioned with the life he planned for in New York and returns west to his home town. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby`s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby`s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him `great`, Nick reflects that the era of dreaming - both Gatsby`s dream and the American dream is over. Printed Pages: 132., Kitabghar Prakashan, 2015, Kitabghar Prakashan, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 x 23 cm. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, takes us back to the spring in 1922, when wall street was booming and bootleggers were in business due to the alcohol ban. Nick travels to New York from the mid-west in order to become a bondsman. He takes residence in West Egg, next to a huge mansion which belongs to a mysterious Mr. Gatsby. Nick is reacquainted with Daisy and Tom Buchanan, a wealthy couple who lives across the bay from him. Nick befriends Gatsby, who is revealed to be infatuated with Daisy. Nick arranges for them to meet and they began to have an affair. Tom, who is also having an affair with a married woman, confronts Daisy and Tom and Daisy is forced to return to Tom. As Daisy and Gatsby drive off after-wards, they run over and kill Myrtle Wilson, Tom`s mistress. Tom lies to Myrtle`s husband and tells him that Gatsby was the driver, when in reality, Daisy was driving. Wilson shoots Gatsby at his home after-wards and then commits suicide. Nick is disillusioned with the life he planned for in New York and returns west to his home town. Nick reflects that just as Gatsby`s dream of Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth. Though Gatsby`s power to transform his dreams into reality is what makes him `great`, Nick reflects that the era of dreaming - both Gatsby`s dream and the American dream is over. Printed Pages: 132., Kitabghar Prakashan, 2015, St. Martin's Paperbacks. Mass Market Paperback. 0312971303 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches From Publishers Weekly Former FBI agent and computer hacker Jay Fletcher, known as the vigilante Ladykiller in Holt's previous novel, Watch Me, returns in this slick, grisly page-turner to play cat-and-mouse with an escaped serial killer she helped incarcerate. Jay is trying to master glassblowing and become comfortable with a new identity as a member of the Witness Security Program when she is contacted electronically by brilliant and vicious Billy Bones, a young murderer in the mold of Jeffrey Dahmer. (In Holt's first novel, Jay happened upon the Internet meeting-place of serial killers and rid the world of four of them, including the notorious Ricky Stiles, mentor of her present quarry, before turning herself in.) Billy, who believes himself the offspring of Charles Manson and cult member Mary Jane Shorter, escaped while being transported to a brain research program at the National Institute of Mental Health; he drops tantalizing clues regarding his imminent killing sprees via Internet messages to Jay. Once an anthropologist at New York's Museum of Natural History, Billy leaves a Heliconius specimen at each crime scene in a nod to "the butterfly effect" ("the flapping wings of a butterfly in one part of the world could eventually result in a hurricane in some other place at a later time")Aan example of chaos theory, which drives Billy to produce what he calls a perfect death. As the mutilated bodies pile up, including those of children, both Billy and Jay reflect at interminable length on the killer's motivations, struggling to give a cerebral spin on what remains essentially butchery. "People like me are a different species entirely," Billy blithely tells one victim. "I kill people because it gives me a rush.... Because fear is just one big turn-on." It is also a turn-on for many fans of this genre, at which Holt is adept. JayAhaunted by having been raped when she was youngAis an appealing character, though Holt's insistent use of italics for her stream-of-consciousness is annoying. Though this up-to-the-minute thriller feels overly manipulated, in the end it provides an abundance of old-fashioned fright. (Aug.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Kirkus Reviews The title isn't the only familiar note Holt strikes in bringing rogue FBI agent Jay Fletcher (Watch Me, 1995) up against another mean serial killer. After executing murder-master Ricky Stiles at the close of her blood-soaked debut, Jay's been eased out of the Bureau and into the Witness Protection Program. She thinks her life has settled down, except of course for her dreams of carnage and summary justice. But when Stiles protg William Paris Bonisteel, a.k.a. Billy Bones, breaks out of his mental institution, Jay is the first person he gets in touch with, since his computer expertise makes it child's play for him to find out her new home and alias. And since the second person Billy taps is the head of the US Marshals' Fugitive Operations Division, warning that if Jay isn't put back on the job of tracking him, he'll go berserk (as if this isn't already a serious possibility), Jay's soon back in the saddle, the unofficial, unarmed partner of bearish Deputy Marshal Jack Dane. The two follow Billy's spectacularly grisly trail from New York to Massachusetts to the bayous of Louisiana, with a brief, tender time-out in Key West before the finale on a tiny island in Washington's Siren Bayand the inevitable movie-inspired coda. Billy's improbable habit of leaving clues to his next move at every murder scene keeps up the suspense without a break. But since the rules of Billy's warped game stay the same, the stakes never rise, and the characters, despite their obsession with Hannibal Lecter, are just barely dimensional enough to keep the pot boiling, the repeated patternJay and Jack puzzle out the clue the killer has left them, race to the next scene, and arrive too lategives an effect that can be monotonously thrilling too, as if Holt were writing a series of linked stories books carefully packed and shipped promptly . Very Good. 2001., St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001, New York. 1991. Putnam. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. ISBN:0399135790. 382 pages. hardcover.. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming. 'A master storyteller, sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking, but always riveting. His characters sparkle with life. And his fast-paced plots are wonderfully fiendish, taking unexpected twists and turns.' - The San Diego Union-Tribune. inventory #26120 ISBN: 0399135790., Chicago, Illinois,-- New York, NY; USA.: Fictioneers, Inc. / Popular Publications, Inc., 1944. ACE-HIGH WESTERN STORIES (January 1944; Volume VII, #4); >>> "All stories NEW - NO Reprints"; >> A Stirring Novel "Blast the Iron Trail West!" by Le Roy Boyd (The way was lined with death and gunsmoke, but young Tom Weldon swore he'd drive that shining road of empire through - even though his own railroading dad had given the command: 'Blast his iron road to hell!') Two Gun-Swift Novelettes (1) "Those Nesters Die Tonight!" by C. William Harrison (Backed by a deputy's star, Brian Kirby was hell-bent to destroy the nesters he hated - even if it meant killing everything that was worth while in himself!) (2) "Dry Graves and Wet Cattle!" by Ralph Berard (The gun-mad rustler held title to the herd that meant the Square Q's life - but Art Fresno held another morgage, signed by Colonel Colt and payable in blood!) Five Thrilling Stories (1) "Old Home Week - In Hell!" by R. S. Lerch (Stormy Gil Bartlett found a strange homecoming in a man-trap canyon - where he had to die, that the honest cowman he once had been might live!) (2) "Half-Pint Hero" by Lee McGee (He couldn't do a man's work or eat a man's food - but he proved he could die a man's death); (3) "Badge of the Damned" by John G. Pearsol (John Clay, king of the owlhoot, must either betray his lifelong friends, or shoot it out with his own badge-toting son!) (4) "Smoky Glory" by Wayne D. Overholser (Wickert and his wife had slaved to build a spread for their son - never dreaming the harvest would be bullets!) 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In an effort to keep up with the Joneses, fading real estate broker Drew Hagel sinks all his money into a hedge fund that goes bust. Meanwhile, his second wife, psychologist Ronnie, is pregnant with twins, and his teenage daughter, Shannon, is experiencing first love with Ian, one of Ronnie's young patients, whose mother died of cancer when he was 14, leaving him a large sum of insurance money that he will inherit when he turns 18. Ian's uncle, David, a decent man with few prospects, plans on using the inheritance to fulfill his dream of owning a bar in North Carolina. Finally, Carrie Manning has grown restless and uncomfortable with her broker husband's wealth and embarks on a brief affair. All these lives collide on one fateful night when Ian accidentally strikes and kills a bicyclist while driving home from an end-of-year high school party; the vehicle belongs to Jamie, Carrie's hard-drinking teenage son. It all sounds a bit like Peyton Place, but Amidon's intentions are far more serious. Writing with a sociologist's insight, he crafts a sharp page-turner mined with moments of dark satire. Amidon's previous novels had moments of profundity, but this exceptional novel delves deeper and more passionately into the fractured lives of people whose lives revolve around money. Its impact lingers long after the final credits roll., Viking<

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