Author: Tricia Goyer
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 9780800733360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a Jew, adopted by Christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral Switzerland. Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) close to Nazi Germany. When she is asked to risk her life to safely "courier" Engel out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands. If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing nuclear capabilities. But in a time of traitors and uncertainty, whom can she trust along the way? This fast-paced, suspenseful novel takes readers along treacherous twists and turns during a fascinating--and deadly--time in history.
The Swiss Courier
Author: Tricia Goyer
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 9780800733360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a Jew, adopted by Christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral Switzerland. Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) close to Nazi Germany. When she is asked to risk her life to safely "courier" Engel out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands. If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing nuclear capabilities. But in a time of traitors and uncertainty, whom can she trust along the way? This fast-paced, suspenseful novel takes readers along treacherous twists and turns during a fascinating--and deadly--time in history.
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 9780800733360
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
It is August 1944 and the Gestapo is mercilessly rounding up suspected enemies of the Third Reich. When Joseph Engel, a German physicist working on the atomic bomb, finds that he is actually a Jew, adopted by Christian parents, he must flee for his life to neutral Switzerland. Gabi Mueller is a young Swiss-American woman working for the newly formed American Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) close to Nazi Germany. When she is asked to risk her life to safely "courier" Engel out of Germany, the fate of the world rests in her hands. If she can lead him to safety, she can keep the Germans from developing nuclear capabilities. But in a time of traitors and uncertainty, whom can she trust along the way? This fast-paced, suspenseful novel takes readers along treacherous twists and turns during a fascinating--and deadly--time in history.
The Courier
Author: Gerald Brandt (Science fiction writer)
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756411394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Set in the year 2140 in the futuristic Los Angeles region, motorcycle courier Kris Ballard sees something she wasn't supposed to while making a delivery. Now she's stuck with a package that everyone seems to want, and the corporations that make all the rules want her gone. So Kris takes to the Level 1 streets, the only place she can hide from these corporate killers.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756411394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Set in the year 2140 in the futuristic Los Angeles region, motorcycle courier Kris Ballard sees something she wasn't supposed to while making a delivery. Now she's stuck with a package that everyone seems to want, and the corporations that make all the rules want her gone. So Kris takes to the Level 1 streets, the only place she can hide from these corporate killers.
The Courier
Author: Kjell Ola Dahl
Publisher: Orenda Books
ISBN: 1495655040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The international bestselling godfather of Nordic Noir takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in a stunning standalone thriller ... NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL** **LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER**` ____________________ 'The Courier is a stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi noir ... Ola Dahl ratchets up the tension from the first pages and never lets go' The Times 'Absorbing, heart-rending and perfectly plotted. Kjell Ola Dahl's The Courier passes seamlessly from the present to the dark past of WWII. Fabulous!' Denzil Meyrick 'Cleverly braiding together past and present, the who and why of murder and betrayal are unpicked. The detail is impressive' Daily Mail ____________________ In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, twenty-five years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter. But where has he been, and what is the real reason for his return? Ester stumbles across information that forces her to look closely at her past, and to revisit her war-time training to stay alive... Written with Dahl's trademark characterization and elegant plotting, The Courier sees the hugely respected godfather of Nordic Noir at his best, as he takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in an exceptional, shocking thriller. ____________________ 'A dark but richly described backdrop and a relentless, underlying tension drive this sad story to its bittersweet conclusion. Fans of Nordic noir will be satisfied' Publishers Weekly 'Skilfully juggling three Oslo timelines — in 1942, 1967 and 2015 — Dahl starts his story with Germany's occupation of Norway and the work of those who tried to resist, then brings his characters forward to a post-war unravelling of what really happened in those dangerous days — and the traumatic rewriting of personal stories' The Times 'A fascinating, intricate, provocative read, set in motion by events in 1942, and brilliantly highlighting human need and emotions ... 'The Courier' sent a shiver coursing through me, it is a truly eloquent and rewarding tale, and oh that ending!' LoveReading 'Written with Dahl's trademark characterisation and clever plotting, The Courier sees one of Norway's most critically acclaimed authors at his best ... This stunning and compelling wartime thriller is reminiscent of the writing of John Le CarrÉ and William Boyd' New Books Magazine 'Kjell Ola Dahl's novels are superb. If you haven't read one, you need to – right now' William Ryan 'The kind of masterful, detailed plotting that Dahl is known for ... the power of The Courier is how Dahl has given a complex, human face to such an inhuman tragedy' Crime Fiction Lover
Publisher: Orenda Books
ISBN: 1495655040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The international bestselling godfather of Nordic Noir takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in a stunning standalone thriller ... NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **SHORTLISTED FOR THE PETRONA AWARD FOR BEST SCANDINAVIAN CRIME NOVEL** **LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER**` ____________________ 'The Courier is a stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi noir ... Ola Dahl ratchets up the tension from the first pages and never lets go' The Times 'Absorbing, heart-rending and perfectly plotted. Kjell Ola Dahl's The Courier passes seamlessly from the present to the dark past of WWII. Fabulous!' Denzil Meyrick 'Cleverly braiding together past and present, the who and why of murder and betrayal are unpicked. The detail is impressive' Daily Mail ____________________ In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, twenty-five years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter. But where has he been, and what is the real reason for his return? Ester stumbles across information that forces her to look closely at her past, and to revisit her war-time training to stay alive... Written with Dahl's trademark characterization and elegant plotting, The Courier sees the hugely respected godfather of Nordic Noir at his best, as he takes on one of the most horrific periods of modern history, in an exceptional, shocking thriller. ____________________ 'A dark but richly described backdrop and a relentless, underlying tension drive this sad story to its bittersweet conclusion. Fans of Nordic noir will be satisfied' Publishers Weekly 'Skilfully juggling three Oslo timelines — in 1942, 1967 and 2015 — Dahl starts his story with Germany's occupation of Norway and the work of those who tried to resist, then brings his characters forward to a post-war unravelling of what really happened in those dangerous days — and the traumatic rewriting of personal stories' The Times 'A fascinating, intricate, provocative read, set in motion by events in 1942, and brilliantly highlighting human need and emotions ... 'The Courier' sent a shiver coursing through me, it is a truly eloquent and rewarding tale, and oh that ending!' LoveReading 'Written with Dahl's trademark characterisation and clever plotting, The Courier sees one of Norway's most critically acclaimed authors at his best ... This stunning and compelling wartime thriller is reminiscent of the writing of John Le CarrÉ and William Boyd' New Books Magazine 'Kjell Ola Dahl's novels are superb. If you haven't read one, you need to – right now' William Ryan 'The kind of masterful, detailed plotting that Dahl is known for ... the power of The Courier is how Dahl has given a complex, human face to such an inhuman tragedy' Crime Fiction Lover
The Fourth Courier
Author: Timothy Jay Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1948924129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
** "Sharply drawn characters, rich dialogue, and a clever conclusion bode well for any sequel." —Publishers Weekly ** ** “Smith skillfully bridges police procedural and espionage fiction, crafting a show-stealing sense of place and realistically pairing the threats of underworld crime and destabilized regimes.” -- Booklist ** For International Espionage Fans of Alan Furst and Daniel Silva, a new thriller set in post-Soviet era Poland. It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent to help with the investigation. When he learns that a Russian physicist who designed a portable atomic bomb has disappeared, the race is on to find him—and the bomb—before it ends up in the wrong hands. Smith’s depiction of post-cold war Poland is gloomily atmospheric and murky in a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Suspenseful, thrilling, and smart, The Fourth Courier brings together a straight white FBI agent and gay black CIA officer as they team up to uncover a gruesome plot involving murder, radioactive contraband, narcissistic government leaders, and unconscionable greed.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1948924129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
** "Sharply drawn characters, rich dialogue, and a clever conclusion bode well for any sequel." —Publishers Weekly ** ** “Smith skillfully bridges police procedural and espionage fiction, crafting a show-stealing sense of place and realistically pairing the threats of underworld crime and destabilized regimes.” -- Booklist ** For International Espionage Fans of Alan Furst and Daniel Silva, a new thriller set in post-Soviet era Poland. It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the defunct Soviet Union. The FBI sends an agent to help with the investigation. When he learns that a Russian physicist who designed a portable atomic bomb has disappeared, the race is on to find him—and the bomb—before it ends up in the wrong hands. Smith’s depiction of post-cold war Poland is gloomily atmospheric and murky in a world where nothing is quite as it seems. Suspenseful, thrilling, and smart, The Fourth Courier brings together a straight white FBI agent and gay black CIA officer as they team up to uncover a gruesome plot involving murder, radioactive contraband, narcissistic government leaders, and unconscionable greed.
Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier
Author: Jon Day
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1910749303
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Cyclogeography is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1910749303
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Cyclogeography is about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and also a portrait of London as seen from the saddle. In the great tradition of the psychogeographers, Jon Day attempts to depart from the map and reclaim the streets of the city. Informed by several grinding years spent as a bicycle courier, he lifts the lid on the solitary life of the courier. Traveling the unmapped byways, shortcuts, and urban edgelands, couriers are the declining, invisible workforce of the city. The parcels they deliver keep things running. For those who survive the crushing toughness of the job, the bicycle can become what holds them together.
The Couriers
Author: Brian Wood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781607066415
Category : Bicycle messengers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tells the tale of mercenary bike messengers in New York City who do the jobs no one else will: the black market runs, the smuggling, the hits and the double crosses.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781607066415
Category : Bicycle messengers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tells the tale of mercenary bike messengers in New York City who do the jobs no one else will: the black market runs, the smuggling, the hits and the double crosses.
Start Your Own Courier Business
Author: Craig Wallin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781676937562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
If you've been downsized, outsourced, grown tired of the rat race or just need more income and a brighter future, this book is for you. If you're ready to take charge and become your own boss, this book is for you.The demand for local, fast courier and delivery services is booming. Independent local couriers can provide the services that are in demand, like same-day deliveries that are just not available from UPS or Fedex. What does a courier do? They pick up and deliver packages, documents, even pets, for businesses and individuals. This service is always in demand, even in smaller in town, as there is always someone who needs a package or document delivered today. A courier service is the perfect "shoestring startup," as it requires very little money to start. All you need is a reliable vehicle and a smartphone.. No formal training is required, just the ability to communicate clearly with customers. Your new courier business can be home-based. This reduces overhead costs, and your only commute is to your next customer! The list of potential customers is almost endless: Architects, engineers, contractors, printers, doctors and medical labs, grocers, pharmacies, caterers, flower shops, accountants, attorneys, busy individuals who don't have the time to run errands and homebound individuals such as seniors and those recovering from an accident or illness.An independent courier service offers you: Flexible hours. Be your own boss. Scalability - grow as big as you want. A recession-proof business. Start on a shoestring.In this book, you'll learn: How to earn an instant income from day one. A simple tax break that could pay for your new delivery van. Software and smartphone apps to help you grow. Free and low-cost marketing ideas that work. How to set up your own website for under $200. How to pick the right vehicle for your new courier business and make it last 300K miles. Forms for your new courier business.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781676937562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
If you've been downsized, outsourced, grown tired of the rat race or just need more income and a brighter future, this book is for you. If you're ready to take charge and become your own boss, this book is for you.The demand for local, fast courier and delivery services is booming. Independent local couriers can provide the services that are in demand, like same-day deliveries that are just not available from UPS or Fedex. What does a courier do? They pick up and deliver packages, documents, even pets, for businesses and individuals. This service is always in demand, even in smaller in town, as there is always someone who needs a package or document delivered today. A courier service is the perfect "shoestring startup," as it requires very little money to start. All you need is a reliable vehicle and a smartphone.. No formal training is required, just the ability to communicate clearly with customers. Your new courier business can be home-based. This reduces overhead costs, and your only commute is to your next customer! The list of potential customers is almost endless: Architects, engineers, contractors, printers, doctors and medical labs, grocers, pharmacies, caterers, flower shops, accountants, attorneys, busy individuals who don't have the time to run errands and homebound individuals such as seniors and those recovering from an accident or illness.An independent courier service offers you: Flexible hours. Be your own boss. Scalability - grow as big as you want. A recession-proof business. Start on a shoestring.In this book, you'll learn: How to earn an instant income from day one. A simple tax break that could pay for your new delivery van. Software and smartphone apps to help you grow. Free and low-cost marketing ideas that work. How to set up your own website for under $200. How to pick the right vehicle for your new courier business and make it last 300K miles. Forms for your new courier business.
The Courier's Archive & Hymnal
Author: Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981497594
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. THE COURIER'S ARCHIVE & HYMNAL navigates a purgatory made nearly pastoral by a necrotic vision of consumptive rivers, ghost mazes, corpsethieves, and stalkerish moons. With an exacting, halted diction, Joshua Marie Wilkinson swerves us deeper toward the source of this dark archive, stirring our courier to contemplate Basho, Beckett, Kafka, Matta-Clark in hope of materializing a "name for no becoming, stammering through wind." The result is a hypnotizing meditation of mood, mind, perdition, and image. In other words, book three of Wilkinson's No Volta pentology picks up exactly where its predecessors SELENOGRAPHY and SWAMP ISTHMUS leave off. That is to say, beyond the good myths, to a decidedly singular poetic territory "recasting the future freshly black."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981497594
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. THE COURIER'S ARCHIVE & HYMNAL navigates a purgatory made nearly pastoral by a necrotic vision of consumptive rivers, ghost mazes, corpsethieves, and stalkerish moons. With an exacting, halted diction, Joshua Marie Wilkinson swerves us deeper toward the source of this dark archive, stirring our courier to contemplate Basho, Beckett, Kafka, Matta-Clark in hope of materializing a "name for no becoming, stammering through wind." The result is a hypnotizing meditation of mood, mind, perdition, and image. In other words, book three of Wilkinson's No Volta pentology picks up exactly where its predecessors SELENOGRAPHY and SWAMP ISTHMUS leave off. That is to say, beyond the good myths, to a decidedly singular poetic territory "recasting the future freshly black."
The Courier's Collection
Author: T. S. Valmond
Publisher: T.S. Valmond
ISBN: 1775361098
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
The perfect courier A rebel princess A dangerous opponent -And she’s all three. Sixteen-year-old Rasha Indari is a royal posing as an undercover courier in a world of mermaids, dragons, and political intrigue. Anything to avoid the throne. She does what it takes to get the job done and doesn’t ask questions until one day she finds she’s transporting a princess. It forever changes the course of her life and the lives of her friends. However, she’ll have to risk it all to save her people and the world. The Courier’s Collection includes: The Courier’s Code The Courier’s Conflict The Courier’s Quest +Bonus epilogues and more If you like feisty heroines, original worlds, and life and death stakes, you’ll love T.S. Valmond’s legendary tale. Buy The Courier’s Collection and step into the fantastical world of Bolaji today.
Publisher: T.S. Valmond
ISBN: 1775361098
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
The perfect courier A rebel princess A dangerous opponent -And she’s all three. Sixteen-year-old Rasha Indari is a royal posing as an undercover courier in a world of mermaids, dragons, and political intrigue. Anything to avoid the throne. She does what it takes to get the job done and doesn’t ask questions until one day she finds she’s transporting a princess. It forever changes the course of her life and the lives of her friends. However, she’ll have to risk it all to save her people and the world. The Courier’s Collection includes: The Courier’s Code The Courier’s Conflict The Courier’s Quest +Bonus epilogues and more If you like feisty heroines, original worlds, and life and death stakes, you’ll love T.S. Valmond’s legendary tale. Buy The Courier’s Collection and step into the fantastical world of Bolaji today.
The Courier's Quest
Author: T. S. Valmond
Publisher: T.S. Valmond
ISBN: 1775361055
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
How do you find something that no one has ever seen before? You enlist the help of a warrior princess who delivers. Rasha returns to her life as a courier with a new partner but she won't get to enjoy it for long before she's called to attend the royal Choosing. But this princess isn't ready to settle down. When a friend mysteriously goes missing and a plague sweeps across the eleven kingdoms of Bolaji it's up to her to get answers. She'll be forced on a perilous journey filled with twists and turns to save the ones she loves while she fights an enemy with family ties. Rasha will have to enlist friends old and new to save her world before it's too late. If you want to escape into a young adult fantasy adventure on a faraway world, you’ll love this one. Buy The Courier’s Quest and immerse yourself in the world of The Bolaji kingdoms again!
Publisher: T.S. Valmond
ISBN: 1775361055
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
How do you find something that no one has ever seen before? You enlist the help of a warrior princess who delivers. Rasha returns to her life as a courier with a new partner but she won't get to enjoy it for long before she's called to attend the royal Choosing. But this princess isn't ready to settle down. When a friend mysteriously goes missing and a plague sweeps across the eleven kingdoms of Bolaji it's up to her to get answers. She'll be forced on a perilous journey filled with twists and turns to save the ones she loves while she fights an enemy with family ties. Rasha will have to enlist friends old and new to save her world before it's too late. If you want to escape into a young adult fantasy adventure on a faraway world, you’ll love this one. Buy The Courier’s Quest and immerse yourself in the world of The Bolaji kingdoms again!