Download or read book Her Majesty s Hit Man written by Allan Prior and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the British government needs to make an enemy disappear, Jay is the man they call on. He doesn't ask questions, because he doesn't want to know the answers. Jay is a contract killer and for him the rules of the game are simple - kill or be killed. His latest contract will not only require him to push his SAS training to its limit, but also put to the test the patriotism and sense of duty that set him on the path to becoming a cold blooded killer-for hire. A classic thriller from the creator of Z-Cars and Softly, Softly.
Download or read book At Her Majesty s Pleasure written by Robert Douglas and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the Yorkshire Dales. He tells us of his prison experiences, with anecdotes about many of the most famous criminals in British history -- the Krays, the Richardsons, the Great Train Robbers, Soviet spies and many more. Told in the same endearing and fascinating voice that readers of LAST SONG OF THE NIGHT TRAM and SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD first fell in love with, this volume continues the story of Robert's remarkable journey of self-education, introducing us to larger-than-life characters on both sides of the bars, and evoking a strong sense of social change as Britain emerged from the post-War gloom into the bright lights of the Beatles years.
Download or read book Hitman written by Garth Ennis and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contract is put out on Tommy Monaghan -- a.k.a. Hitman -- and Tommy's closest friends may suffer the consequences before it's over. This bullet-riddled volume also features a tale of Tommy's first childhood experience with firearms.
Download or read book Her Majesty s Philosophers written by Alan Smith and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informative, entertaining, against the grain, Her Majesty's Philosophers highlights the artificiality of prison life. By a Guardian correspondent (and with extracts to be published in that newspaper) this book is set to be a penal affairs classic which every student of crime and punishment should read. Building on his Guardian pieces about teaching Philosophy in prison, this is Alan Smiths account in extenso. From introducing Plato to ever-changing groups of hard-nosed prisoners to them wrestling with Bentham, Larkin and Shakespeare, it is packed with insights and unexpected turns. It paints a picture in which worlds collide and conventional morality is turned inside out as new modes of discourse change the mens thinking and ideas. At times surreal the book brings fresh perspectives to the minutiae of prison life: survival, coping, soap, teabags, cell mates, the constant noise and immediacy. And needless to say, the men come up with philosophical gems of their own. Her Majesty Philosophers is also about isolation, the long hours, knockbacks and the emotional mutilation of imprisonment; and whilst philosophy is soft and fluffy it contrasts starkly with the pragmatic world of prison officers, for whom the Holy Grail is Security, Keys and Prison Craft. The book charts how learning changes lives, especially for prisoners who missed out on formal education, whoonce motivatedbecome voracious readers and extraordinary students. It demonstrates more than any official report the value of a wider agenda than Basic Skills. Prisons have been labelled Universities of Crime, but colleges are increasingly populated by those who began their studies in a prison cell. In a book packed with wisdom and humour the author laments the fact that prison policy means that this is becoming a far less easy step.
Download or read book The Bucket and Other Weird Stories written by Isaiah J. King and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaiah J. King's second book of short stories. A collection of previously unpublished works of weird fiction ranging from humorous to nihilistic to completely bizarre.
Download or read book Report by Her Majesty s Commissioner and Correspondence on the Subject of the Insurrection in the Sierra Leone Protectorate 1898 written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is It Just Me Or Has The Shit Hit The Fan written by Alan McArthur and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the bestselling IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? survey the post-crash landscape. Are we better people now, or just the same people with less money? From bank bailouts to enviro-copouts; from Tory politicans listening to The Jam to celebrity credit crunch 'victims' Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner; from BNP coppers to Christian theme parks to middle-class shoppers banging on about budget supermarkets; plus everyone banging on about The Wire . . . Funny, sharp and timely, IS IT JUST ME OR HAS THE SHIT HIT THE FAN? asks the crucial questions of the new age, like; why are the people who screwed the world still running the world and screwing the world until we're all screwed more than we've ever been screwed before?
Download or read book Dictionary of Americanisms Briticisms Canadianisms and Australianisms written by V.S. Matyushenkov and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary Of Americanisms, Canadianisms, Briticisms and Australianisms is a complete, modern, and comprehensive dictionary featuring a large word list of more than 20000 entries. The purpose of this book is to provide a generous sampling of words and expressions of the various spheres of life in the USA, Great Britain, Australia and Canada during the last centuries. The dictionary also features a collection of slang and colloquial expressions in these four countries in the twentieth century. It has a clear, easy-to-use format and is ideal for students, schools, libraries, tourists and anyone who is interested in varieties of English spoken in major English-speaking countries.
Download or read book The Twinkling written by Jewel M. Scott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AND YOU SHALL BE CHANGED Jade Stillwater knew something was wrong with her. Shortly after her thirtieth birthday she began experiencing strange rages and violent outbursts. While on her way to have lunch with her best friend, Jade is stopped by the police for what should have been a routine traffic violation. However, it turns into a nightmare! Jade gets into a confrontation with one of the arresting officers, angry she grows and growls in front of everyone. Shocked and frightened, Jade is tossed into prison where inmates are mysterious dying from severe blood loss. AND THEN THE TWINKLING Nothing could have prepared Jade for the chain of events that day unraveled. Prison changes most people, add fighting and killing a supernatural creature, and it changes everything. Thrown into the world of supernatural, Jade and her friends race against time to prevent the resurrection of an ancient evil so heinous, it had taken angels to defeat it centuries before. In the midst of it all, Jades heart is torn between two men who want nothing more than to love and protect her, one human, the other supernatural both sexy as hell. Never in her life had she felt so desired and needed by everyone close to her heart. With time running out and lives being lost, Jade is left with the ultimate decision that could save or end the world.
Download or read book The World of Christopher Marlowe written by David Riggs and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography: a masterly account of Marlowe's work and life and the world in which he lived Shakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe revolutionized English drama and poetry, transforming the Elizabethan stage into a place of astonishing creativity. The outline of Marlowe's life, work, and violent death are known, but few of the details that explain why his writing and ideas made him such a provocateur in the Elizabethan era have been available until now. In this absorbing consideration of Marlowe and his times, David Riggs presents Marlowe as the language's first poetic dramatist whose desires proved his undoing. In an age of tremendous cultural change in Europe when Cervantes wrote the first novel and Copernicus demonstrated a world subservient to other nonreligious forces, Catholics and Protestants battled for control of England and Elizabeth's crown was anything but secure. Into this whirlwind of change stepped Marlowe espousing sexual freedom and atheism. His beliefs proved too dangerous to those in power and he was condemned as a spy and later murdered. In The World of Christopher Marlowe, Riggs's exhaustive research digs deeply into the mystery of how and why Marlowe was killed.
Download or read book The Golden Princess written by S. M. Stirling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Continuing their quest that began in The golden princess, two future rulers of a world without technology risk their lives seeking a fabled blade...Reiko, Empress of Japan, has allied herself with Princess Órlaith, heir to the High Kingdom of Montival, to find the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, the Grass-Cutting Sword, a legendary treasure of an ancient dynasty that confers valor and victory to its bearer...But the fabled sword lies deep with the Valley of Death, and the search will be far from easy. And war is building, in Montival and far beyond..."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book In Praise of Gentle People written by Alex Binney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two intriguing murder mysteries in one. Lawrence Treman, the son of a wealthy British barrister, is sent by his father to a ranch in Kansas to 'toughen him up'. Lawrence reluctantly obeys his father's wishes under the threat of losing his inheritance, but is aggrieved to leave behind the love of his life, Estelle Lavine. The year is 1874 and the Civil War in America has long since finished, but not the day of the gunman in the untamed West. During his stay on the ranch, a number of cowboys are butchered under mysterious circumstances. The owner calls in an agent from the Pinkerton Detective Agency to try and solve the mystery. Lawrence falls under immediate suspicion because the killings did not start until he arrived at the ranch. As if that is not enough, detectives from Scotland Yard are called in to investigate a series of murders in Hertfordshire, Lawrence's home county in England. When the bodies are discovered on his father's estate, Lawrence again falls under suspicion there, the police accusing his father of sending him away to the Americas to avoid the clutches of the police. He is ordered to return to Britain by his father to answer the charges facing him there, but is shocked to learn that this will not be possible as his son is due to be hung in Kansas for the murder of the cowboys. In the meantime Estelle, the love of Lawrence's life, is being forced against her will to marry someone else.... Can Lawrence escape the hangman in the States and face the music back home? A taut thriller from the pen of Alex Binney.
Download or read book In Her Majesty s Name written by Craig Cartmell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1895 and the world is in turmoil. The Great Powers compete for resources and the latest technology, and an undeclared and secret war rages between them all. This is battleground of the Adventuring Companies. These clandestine agents of the Great Powers operate in the shadows, matching skills and wits in pursuit of the newest scientific formulae or powerful occult artifacts. In Her Majesty's Name sets these adventuring companies against each other in one-off encounters and in longer narrative campaigns. Companies are usually comprised of just 4–15 figures and two players could easily play three games in an evening, making an on-going campaign a highly viable option. In Her Majesty's Name has been designed to allow maximum versatility for the player – if you can imagine it, the system will help you build it. There is, however, a wealth of material provided in the book, covering weird science, mystical powers, and a range of pre-generated adventuring companies, including the British Explorers' Club, the Prussian Society of Thule, the US Marine Corps, the Légion Étrangère, the revolutionaries of the Brick Lane Commune, ancient Egyptian cults, and the mysterious Black Dragon Tong.
Download or read book At Her Majestys Secret Service written by Nigel West and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1909, a kindly, balding, figure named Mansfield Smith-Cumming was summoned to London by Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence. He was to assume the inaugural position of Chief – more famously known as ‘C – of what has become
Download or read book Her Majesty s Swarm Volume 1 written by 616th Special Information Battalion and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our protagonist is a college student who enjoys playing as the evil-aligned faction Arachnea in her favorite real-time strategy game. One day, she finds herself in a world similar to the one in the game; additionally, her body is now that of a fourteen-year-old girl. While things are a bit different from how they were in the game, one element has remained the same: she is the leader of the Arachnea. The insects under her control, collectively known as the Swarm, praise her and implore her to lead them to victory. In order to survive, she raises her Swarm and forms friendly relations with the elves of the neighboring forest. But after a slaver traveling through the forest murders one of her Swarm and the nearby kingdom's knights burn down the elven village and massacre its people, she prepares to launch her counterattacks in the name of revenge. However, revenge is merely a pretense for attacking the countries of this world. Her command is masterful and severe, as one who has played the game in real life...
Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Her Majesty s Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Subject of Agricultural Depression written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before Her Majesty s Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Subject of Agricultural Depression with Appendices and Alphabetical Digest written by Great Britain. Royal commission on agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
