Download or read book The Dead Man written by Drac Von Stoller and published by Drac Von Stoller. This book was released on 2024-11-09 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wilson mansion loomed against the autumn sky like a dying thing, its Victorian turrets piercing the low-hanging clouds. Located miles from the nearest town, the estate's wrought-iron gates were perpetually rusted half-open, as if eternally inviting – or warning away – visitors. Local teenagers whispered stories about the place, about the screams that sometimes echoed across the overgrown grounds on moonless nights. But Dr. Clive Wilson paid no attention to such tales. In his basement laboratory, surrounded by humming machines and walls of mysterious equipment, he was on the verge of something unprecedented. The doctor's hands, once steady enough to perform the most delicate surgeries, now trembled with excitement as he reviewed his notes for the thousandth time. 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Just before the experiment began, Maria burst into the laboratory, her face glowing with joy, an engagement ring sparkling on her finger. "Derrick and I are getting married!" she announced. The look that crossed Dr. Wilson's face in that moment was something Dr. Timmons would never forget – a flash of such primal rage and fear that it transformed his features

Download or read book Dead Man Coming written by Charles Postell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Dead Man in Deptford written by Anthony Burgess and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn' Irish Times A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by the theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England. 'A fast, funny, flawless recreation' Hilary Mantel See also: Earthly Powers

Download or read book Dead Man Upright written by Derek Raymond and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before available in the U.S., the final episode in the Factory Series is another unrelenting investigation with the nameless detective into the black soul of Thatcher’s England. The fifth and final book in the author’s acclaimed Factory Series was published just after Derek Raymond’s death, and so didn’t get the kind of adulatory attention the previous four titles in the series got. The book has been unavailable for so long that many of Derek Raymond’s rabid fans aren’t even aware there is a fifth book. But Dead Man Upright may be the most psychologically probing book in the series. Unlike the others, it’s not so much an investigation into the identity of a killer, but a chase to catch him before he kills again. Meanwhile, the series’ hero—the nameless Sargent from the “Unexplained Deaths” department—is facing more obstacles in the department, due to severe budget cutbacks, than he’s ever faced before. However, this time, the Sargent knows the identity of the next victim of the serial killer in question. But even the Sargent’s brutally blunt way of speaking can’t convince the besotted victim, and he’s got to convince a colleague to go against orders and join him in the attempt to catch the killer... before it’s too late.

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Download or read book Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization written by Elizabeth Rudnick and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelization of the upcoming Walt Disney Studios film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, starring Johnny Depp as the unforgettable Captain Jack Sparrow! The newest film in the box-office smashing franchise Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Men Tell No Tales features the return of fan-favorites Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, and Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa, alongside franchise newcomers Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall), Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner), and Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent).

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Download or read book Forgiving Promises written by Susan A. Perkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgiving Promises is the third volume in the Promises Series. It continues the inter-related stories of the people whose lives were touched by Yeshua during his time on earth. Our favorite Bible characters come alive in this charming story that includes their neighbors, families, and pets. Through this wonderful fictional telling of the story, our lives seem to merge with their own, and we too are brought face to face with the difference Forgiving Promises can make in our lives.

Download or read book Deadman Switch written by Timothy Zahn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death-row inmates are used for a lethal mining operation—but one is innocent—in this science fiction novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Only the recently dead can helm the “deadman switch” to pilot a ship through the Cloud, a mysterious solar entity that shields the Solitaire solar system and its valuable heavy metals. Two convicted murderers are routinely sacrificed for this task—one to enter the system, one to exit. Gilead Raca Benedar is a Watcher, employed by the wealthy head of an intergalactic mining company as a human lie detector of sorts. When Benedar is sent to Solitaire, with its metal-rich moons, to assist with the acquisition of its valuable mining rights, he and the crew are able to make it to Solitaire safely, and all goes well. That is, until Benedar’s Watcher powers show him that the second convict they are traveling with—the one meant to helm the deadman switch on their return journey—is innocent.

Download or read book Dead Man s Noose written by Morgan Hill and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You may put a rope on my wrists,” the captured outlaw Duke McClain taunts Sheriff Matt Blake, “but you’ll never put one on my neck.” A death sentence awaits McClain in Tucson for his robberies, massacres, and senseless murders—but it lies across miles of unforgiving desert, full of cruel traps and bloodthirsty villains. Although Blake is determined to bring the outlaw to justice, a single thought repeats itself in his head with every thirsty step: A lot of things could happen before they reach Tucson...

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