Author: Adam Hall
Publisher: HarperPrism
ISBN: 9780061005305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Quiller's back to face the toughest mission of his career deep in the heart of the Sahara. His orders from the Tango Briefing are to locate a small downed plane, photograph its dead crew, and identify its cargo. But Quiller's assignment turns into a suicide mission. Originally published in the U.S. by Doubleday.
The Tango Briefing
Author: Adam Hall
Publisher: HarperPrism
ISBN: 9780061005305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Quiller's back to face the toughest mission of his career deep in the heart of the Sahara. His orders from the Tango Briefing are to locate a small downed plane, photograph its dead crew, and identify its cargo. But Quiller's assignment turns into a suicide mission. Originally published in the U.S. by Doubleday.
Publisher: HarperPrism
ISBN: 9780061005305
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Quiller's back to face the toughest mission of his career deep in the heart of the Sahara. His orders from the Tango Briefing are to locate a small downed plane, photograph its dead crew, and identify its cargo. But Quiller's assignment turns into a suicide mission. Originally published in the U.S. by Doubleday.
The Special Branch
Author: LeRoy Panek
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criticism, trying both to place them in historical perspective and to describe and analyze the content and form of their fiction.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721787
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The author has chosen seventeen of the most important or representative British spy novelists to write about. He presents some basic literary analysis and criticism, trying both to place them in historical perspective and to describe and analyze the content and form of their fiction.
Spies and Holy Wars
Author: Reeva Spector Simon
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292739605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century, the books in this expansive study encompass spy novels and crime fiction, illustrating new connections between these genres and Western imperialism. Demonstrating the social implications of the popularity of such books, Reeva Spector Simon covers how the Middle Eastern villain evolved from being the malleable victim before World War II to the international, techno-savvy figure in today's crime novels. She explores the impact of James Bond, pulp fiction, and comic books and also analyzes the ways in which world events shaped the genre, particularly in recent years. Worldwide terrorism and economic domination prevail as the most common sources of narrative tension in these works, while military "tech novels" restored the prestige of the American hero in the wake of post-Vietnam skepticism. Moving beyond stereotypes, Simon examines the relationships between publishing trends, political trends, and popular culture at large—giving voice to the previously unexamined truths that emerge from these provocative page-turners.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292739605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century, the books in this expansive study encompass spy novels and crime fiction, illustrating new connections between these genres and Western imperialism. Demonstrating the social implications of the popularity of such books, Reeva Spector Simon covers how the Middle Eastern villain evolved from being the malleable victim before World War II to the international, techno-savvy figure in today's crime novels. She explores the impact of James Bond, pulp fiction, and comic books and also analyzes the ways in which world events shaped the genre, particularly in recent years. Worldwide terrorism and economic domination prevail as the most common sources of narrative tension in these works, while military "tech novels" restored the prestige of the American hero in the wake of post-Vietnam skepticism. Moving beyond stereotypes, Simon examines the relationships between publishing trends, political trends, and popular culture at large—giving voice to the previously unexamined truths that emerge from these provocative page-turners.
Sequels
Author: Janet G. Husband
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838909671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 793
Book Description
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838909671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 793
Book Description
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Tango One
Author: Stephen Leather
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1844568598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
***Now a motion picture, out 5th March 2018*** In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. Their brief? To become criminals; to work their way up through whatever criminal organisations they can get access to, and to collate evidence against the criminals they come across. Their target? One of the world's biggest drug dealers, Den Donovan, alias 'Tango One' - number one on HM Customs and Excise's List of most wanted criminals. Three years later all the recruits are getting close to their target. Too close, perhaps, to remember the rules . . . *********** Praise for Stephen Leather '[Leather] has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real' Daily Mail 'Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it' - Sun
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1844568598
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
***Now a motion picture, out 5th March 2018*** In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. Their brief? To become criminals; to work their way up through whatever criminal organisations they can get access to, and to collate evidence against the criminals they come across. Their target? One of the world's biggest drug dealers, Den Donovan, alias 'Tango One' - number one on HM Customs and Excise's List of most wanted criminals. Three years later all the recruits are getting close to their target. Too close, perhaps, to remember the rules . . . *********** Praise for Stephen Leather '[Leather] has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real' Daily Mail 'Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it' - Sun
The Ways We End
Author: Ann Christy
Publisher: Ann Christy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Christy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Write in Style
Author: Richard Palmer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136742506
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Write in Style is aimed at all for whom clarity and accuracy of expression are important skills. All the main styles and grammaticalrules are covered, their sense axplained and vivid examples given of how not to write. Plenty of sound and meticulous advice is offered in a friendly and enthusiastic toneand a large part of the book covers specific types of writing, from essays and articles to minutes and reportage. The many illustrations, examples and exercises throughout help the reader put into practice the techniques and skillds the book explores.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136742506
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Write in Style is aimed at all for whom clarity and accuracy of expression are important skills. All the main styles and grammaticalrules are covered, their sense axplained and vivid examples given of how not to write. Plenty of sound and meticulous advice is offered in a friendly and enthusiastic toneand a large part of the book covers specific types of writing, from essays and articles to minutes and reportage. The many illustrations, examples and exercises throughout help the reader put into practice the techniques and skillds the book explores.
Timelines
Author: Darrel Dillon
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098000099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Going where no sci-fi adventure has gone before, The DTRIS File: Timelines is a good-versus-evil allegory of galactic proportions. The story opens as David Mark is resurrecting his life from the depths of disillusionment with humanity's moral decay. After meeting a mysterious man named Lewis Chester, he gets a thought-recording device implanted in his brain, the first step in the process of leaving planet Earth""and then the global rains begin. It's his twin sister, Darla, who unravels the story of David's fantastic space adventure as she transcribes his DTRIS file a year later. She was transported to the Logos Station, a spherical sanctuary at the edge of a void, shortly after her brother disappeared. Through this intriguing tale, you'll learn how events of Earth's past, present, and future are tied to invisible forces and secret agendas, as the actions of the Nobel, the Sangar, the Earing, the Ictol, and other alien species are unveiled. This first book in a compelling new science-fiction saga, The DTRIS File: Timelines narrates the spellbinding story of how the universe arrives at the precipice of all-out intergalactic war in the not-so-distant future.
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098000099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Going where no sci-fi adventure has gone before, The DTRIS File: Timelines is a good-versus-evil allegory of galactic proportions. The story opens as David Mark is resurrecting his life from the depths of disillusionment with humanity's moral decay. After meeting a mysterious man named Lewis Chester, he gets a thought-recording device implanted in his brain, the first step in the process of leaving planet Earth""and then the global rains begin. It's his twin sister, Darla, who unravels the story of David's fantastic space adventure as she transcribes his DTRIS file a year later. She was transported to the Logos Station, a spherical sanctuary at the edge of a void, shortly after her brother disappeared. Through this intriguing tale, you'll learn how events of Earth's past, present, and future are tied to invisible forces and secret agendas, as the actions of the Nobel, the Sangar, the Earing, the Ictol, and other alien species are unveiled. This first book in a compelling new science-fiction saga, The DTRIS File: Timelines narrates the spellbinding story of how the universe arrives at the precipice of all-out intergalactic war in the not-so-distant future.
Stylistics
Author: Jonathan Hope
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113482372X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope provide an `interactive' introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. Divided up into five sections; the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the clause, text structure and vocabulary, the book also provides an introduction to the basics of descriptive grammar for beginning students. * Presumes no prior linguistic knowledge * Provides a comprehensive glossary of terms * Adaptable: designed to be used in a variety of classroom contexts * Introduces students to an enormous range of 20th century literature from James Joyce to Roddy Doyle A practical coursebook rather than a survey account of stylistics as a discipline, the book provides over forty opportunities for hands-on stylistic analysis. For each linguistic feature under discussion the reader is offered a definition, a text for analysis, exercises and tasks, in addition to a suggested solution. Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook is genuinely `student friendly' and will be an invaluable tool for all beginning undergraduates and A-level students of language and literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113482372X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Using a wide range of twentieth-century literary prose Laura Wright and Jonathan Hope provide an `interactive' introduction to the techniques of stylistic analysis. Divided up into five sections; the noun phrase, the verb phrase, the clause, text structure and vocabulary, the book also provides an introduction to the basics of descriptive grammar for beginning students. * Presumes no prior linguistic knowledge * Provides a comprehensive glossary of terms * Adaptable: designed to be used in a variety of classroom contexts * Introduces students to an enormous range of 20th century literature from James Joyce to Roddy Doyle A practical coursebook rather than a survey account of stylistics as a discipline, the book provides over forty opportunities for hands-on stylistic analysis. For each linguistic feature under discussion the reader is offered a definition, a text for analysis, exercises and tasks, in addition to a suggested solution. Stylistics: A Practical Coursebook is genuinely `student friendly' and will be an invaluable tool for all beginning undergraduates and A-level students of language and literature.
The Double Game
Author: Dan Fesperman
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 030774440X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Seattle Times Best Mystery of the Year A Times of London Best Crime/Thriller Book of the Year A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a fan who grew up as a Foreign Service brat in the very cities where Lemaster set his plots, the story creates a brief but embarrassing sensation. More than two decades later, Cage receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. Spiked with cryptic references to some of his and his father’s favorite old spy novels, the note is the first piece of a puzzle that will lead Cage back to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth, even as he discovers that the ghosts of Lemaster’s past eerily—and dangerously—still haunt the present. As the suspense steadily increases, decades of secrets begin to unravel.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 030774440X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Seattle Times Best Mystery of the Year A Times of London Best Crime/Thriller Book of the Year A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a fan who grew up as a Foreign Service brat in the very cities where Lemaster set his plots, the story creates a brief but embarrassing sensation. More than two decades later, Cage receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. Spiked with cryptic references to some of his and his father’s favorite old spy novels, the note is the first piece of a puzzle that will lead Cage back to Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in search of the truth, even as he discovers that the ghosts of Lemaster’s past eerily—and dangerously—still haunt the present. As the suspense steadily increases, decades of secrets begin to unravel.