Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Final Quest written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his last adventure Hammer's mission is to learn whether the White Horseman of the Apocalypse, Loredano Ziff, is dead or alive. If he is dead, Hammer must obtain proof that he is dead. If he is alive, Hammer is ordered to kill him"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Four Horsemen Volume Two written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ninth book of the Hammer Spade series Hammer and his friends are assigned to infiltrate a shadowy group who call themselves The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Their mission is nothing less than the destruction of Western Civilization. In volume one, Michael Clover infiltrates the Four Horsemen leadership council, Jack Kane and Clare Davis are assigned to the Black Horse of Famine group whose mission is to reduce the world¿s food supply. Dave Quigley and Jim Travis are sent to Algeria on a mission by Red Horse of War group, whose aim is to foment armed conflict. In volume two, Tim Whealton and Jerrel Neuhaus are dispatched to Papua, New Guinea where Willie Wanderer leads them to a plant that produces the world¿s most deadly natural poison. Hammer Spade and Shidee Callaway are sent to Tibet to learn from Tibetan wise man, Annyl Slohcin, how to destroy the souls of men. Then they all meet in Casablanca, Morocco where Michial Clover, aka Lord Phillip Norwich, has a surprise waiting for everybody.
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Diamond Smugglers written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Spade, private investigator in North Carolina, takes off for South Africa to chase down a diamond smuggling operation. Little does he know that his life will be in danger from the very thieves he chases.
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Merchants of Death written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Spade, a private investigator and bail bondsman in Durham, N.C., is hired by the United States government to eliminate the leader of a drug cartel. As Hammer and his friends pursue their prey, they meet one challenge after another along the picturesque North Carolina coast.
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Ring of Fire written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On their wedding day Xerxes, King of ancient Persia, gave a gold ring with mysterious qualities to his new Jewish Queen, Esther. It has been stolen from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Hammer Spade is hired to recover it.
Download or read book Hammer Spade and the Case of the Missing Husband written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hammer Spade, private investigator and bail bondsman in Durham, N.C., must help an international beauty find her missing husband.
Download or read book Those Whom the Gods Love written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brutal racial murders in Jacksonville, North Carolina A reluctant Vietnam veteran goes undercover to bring the murderer to justice. A beautiful partner named Bess. It adds up to a fast moving story of romance, intrigue, violence and thrills. The story is set in the early 1960s against a background of life in a Marine town adjacent to Camp Lejeune.
Download or read book 4 Women written by E. B. Alston and published by Righter Bookstore. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know women like these. They are strong women, who have what it takes to deal with life altering circumstances. Sometimes they have choices about what to do but other times, they have no other option. In Twilight for the Gods, Christina de La Rocha has risen from the impoverished slums of her small South American country to a position as personal confidant to the president. She has been working to change the political process in ways that benefit the poor and downtrodden in her country. Her crisis comes just when success seems to be within her grasp. She proves that ultimate courage is not the exclusive domain of men. In Colonial Justice fifteen-year-old Abigail Wagstaff must defy her violent Calvinist father to save the life of the man she loves.In Nowhere to Run, Lynn Pierce faces the kidnapping of one of her sons. How she turns the tables on the kidnappers is the stuff of legend. In A High Plains Christmas, Sarah Fitzgerald Montgomery is a refugee from a defeated Confederacy. The daughter of a wealthy planter, she grew up in aristocratic circumstances. But her way of life turns to dust after the defeat of the South. In 1866 she and her war-wounded husband moved west to Kansas to start over in a new place away from the ravages of war. When her husband dies from his wounds four months after their first child is born, Sarah is alone in snow-covered Kansas with a tiny baby to care for. But she is not a woman who will give up her dream.
Download or read book The Quest for the Steel written by P. Hacker and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was created using the foundation rooted in historical role-playing games that P. Hacker had created or participated in. The story begins with two young boys, Vilmare and Rondo, who are separated by mountains, oceans, and cultures. Our young adventurers find themselves on a collision course with destiny, which will forge a bond that seems unbreakable. But the trials of the world will thrust them into adventure around every corner, character growth under every stone, and perils waiting in the shadows. Which way will the wind blow to guide the young boys on their quest for the salvation of Stelvose? The quest will submerge you into courage, greed, deception, action, and love. Begin your adventure, meet some compelling characters, snuggle up to the possibilities, and immerse yourself into the world of Stelvose. Beware, the story is not for the faint of heart.
Download or read book The Gathering Book 1 Quest for the Steel written by P. Hacker and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation for this novel was created by taking inspiration from historical role-playing projects in which P. Hacker had participated in or created. It tells the tale of two boys, Vilmare and Rondo, who are separated by mountains, oceans, and cultures. Our young heroes are on a collision course with destiny, which will lead them to a bond that seems unbreakable. But the trials of this world will lead them into adventure at every turn, to character development under every stone, and to perilous situations waiting in the shadows. What direction will the wind blow to guide the young boys on their quest to save Stelvose? In the midst of an untimely quest, actions of courage, deception, and love will take place. Start your adventure, meet compelling characters, snuggle up to possibilities, and explore the world of Stelvose. Beware, the story is not for the faint of heart.
Download or read book Haunted written by Leo Braudy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity. Continuing his interest in the history of emotion, this book explores how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity. From the Protestant Reformation to contemporary horror films and fiction, he explores four major types: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous. Haunted is a compelling and incisive work by a writer at the height of his powers.
Download or read book The Quest of the Chief Good Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes with a New Translation by Samuel Cox A Commentary for Laymen written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I the Jury written by Mickey Spillane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in Mickey Spillane's classic detective series starring hard-boiled private eye Mike Hammer. I, the Jury is a double-strength shot of sex, violence, and action that is vintage Spillane all the way. It's a tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans.
Download or read book L A Noir written by Alain Silver and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles has always been as much a star in film noir as any actor, be it Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner or Jack Nicholson. In L.A. Noir: The City as Character renowned film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini explore the world of noir cinema in the context of Los Angeles. The book features dozens of noir and neo-noir landmark films from Double Indemnity, Criss Cross, Sunset Boulevard, Gun Crazy, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, and Touch of Evil in the classic period (1940-1960) to such neo-noir notables as Chinatown, L.A. Confidential, Mulholland Drive, and Pulp Fiction. L.A. Noir illustrates how these noir films use L.A.'s diverse cityscape and architecture to convey a unique vision of urban corruption and existential fatalism, not only in the ever-changing, chaotic downtown of Bunker Hill, Main Street, and Chinatown, but in its affluent coastal communities (Santa Monica, Malibu) as well as its deceptively sunny suburbs (South Bay, San Fernando Valley). The authors deftly analyze the key films of noir while integrating them into the geography and history of this "dark city" which became such an important icon of noir literature and film. L.A. Noir is profusely illustrated with approximately 150 photographs-many of them appearing in print for the very first time-including production stills from the movies discussed, archival photos of the locations from the films and new photographs of the locations today, chronicling the ever-changing cityscape of this noir character-Los Angeles.
Download or read book Tragedy written by Rebecca Bushnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too distant from their own language and world. Argues that today's most popular television shows and films thrive on the type of violence, passion, madness, and catastrophe first introduced to the stage in fifth century Athens Offers selected case studies that exemplify the compelling qualities of tragedy Reviews the history of tragic performance and the qualities of the classic tragic hero, and clarifies the role of plot in defining traged Analyzes the difference between a tragedy, a catastrophe, and a mere unhappy ending Explores the past and future of the tragic form
Download or read book Film Noir Compendium written by Alain Silver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essential study of film noir, editors Alain Silver and James Ursini select the most significant and influential articles on the movement from their highly respected Film Noir Reader series and assemble them into a single, convenient, heavily illustrated volume. Still included, of course, are many rare early articles and such seminal essays as Borde and Chaumeton's “Towards a Definition of Film Noir” from Panorama du Film Noir Americain, Paul Schrader's “Notes on Film Noir ” and “Paint It Black: the Family Tree of the Film Noir” by Raymond Durgnat. With newer studies such as “Lounge Time” by Vivian Sobchack, “Manufacturing Heroines in Classic Noir Films” by Sheri Chinen Biesen, and “Voices from the Deep: Film Noir as Psychodrama” J. P. Telotte, this collection of over 30 articles probes this most influential American film movement from varying angles: formalist, feminist, structuralist, sociological, and stylistic; narrative-thematic historical, and even from the point of view of a pure aficionado. There is something in this volume for every student or devotee of film noir. Plus like the readers that have proven an invaluable tool for academics planning a syllabus, it can serve as the most complete core text for any of the myriad of film noir courses taught throughout the world.
Download or read book Street with No Name written by Andrew Dickos and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Dickos's Street with No Name traces the film noir genre back to its roots in German expressionist cinema and the French cinema of the interwar years. Dickos describes the development of the film noir in America from 1941 through the 1970s and examines how this development expresses a modern cinema. He argues that, in its most satisfying form, the film noir exists as a series of conventions with an iconography and characters of distinctive significance. Featuring stylized lighting and urban settings, these films tell melodramatic narratives involving characters who commit crimes predicated on destructive passions, corruption, and a submission to human weakness and fate. Unlike other studies of the noir, Street with No Name follows its development in a loosely historical style that associates certain noir directors with those features in their films that helped define the scope of the genre. Dickos examines notable directors such as Orson Welles, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, and Robert Siodmak. He also charts the genre's influence on such celebrated postwar French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard. Addressing the aesthetic, cultural, political, and social concerns depicted in the genre, Street with No Name demonstrates how the film noir generates a highly expressive, raw, and violent mood as it exposes the ambiguities of modern postwar society.
