Download or read book The Manchester Vendetta written by Charles Tyrie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manchester Vendetta is set in Manchester, following Britains political and economic decline. The electoral success of the far right National Party under President Hartmann and the establishment of a totalitarian regime provoke an uprising against the new governments oppressive policies, resulting in the destruction of the city centre and violent retribution against the local population. A battle of wits is fought between the head of the internal security Max Boyston and the divisional engineer for the city centre Guy Manners, who ruthlessly seeks retribution for the death of his wife and family. A dangerous cat and mouse game is played against the background of the citys highways and underground network of sewers, an escape to the island of Anglesey and nail biting helicopter chase of Guy and his girlfriend Julie.
Download or read book The Cheshire Conspiracy written by Charles Tyrie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cheshire Conspiracy is a sequel to the Manchester Vendetta and deals with the aftermath of the overthrow of the fascist dictator Russell Hartmann and the liberation of the UK by NATO forces. After their deadly encounter with Max Boyston, Head of the Manchester Internal Security Service, Guy Manners and Julie Rowlands return from exile in the Irish Republic to a country still not at peace with itself. Questioned by Special Branch and pursued by assassins, Guy and Julie seek to discover their enemies safe house and eliminate the threat it poses to their lives. Aided by a computer hacker, they uncover a conspiracy to release a key member of the former fascist regime from the high security prison in Slough, and become involved in a race against time to thwart his escape.
Download or read book The Langley Boy Raising the Red Flag written by Charles Tyrie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, legerdemain, political and personal ambition, dedication, and all the ingredients of a Shakespearean drama are reflected in the second part of the Langley Boy Trilogy Raising the Red Flag. The story begins with a blossoming romance in Cookham, a students life at Birmingham University, being under the surgeons knife, marriage, fatherhood, and a coveted Civil Engineering degree. The book reveals the grim reality of living in London with a small child, Harold Wilsons Lets Go with Labour election campaign, a move to Timperley in Cheshire, a divorce, a child custody case, and becoming a chartered civil engineer. The contents provide a cameo history of the Labour Partys activities in Timperley Ward 2 and East Central Ward in the Borough of Altrincham during the period 1964 to 1974, the authors attempts to become a parliamentary candidate and his experiences as an Altrincham Borough Councillor. Cupids arrow at Timperley Hockey Club leads to marriage to Hilary, a new home, tackling Wainwrights Fells in the Lake District, family holidays in Anglesey and Burnham-on-Sea, boat building, school trips and entertaining nephews and nieces. The author includes intriguing anecdotes of his work at Stockport and Manchester, and describes the management of a direct labour force during a period of massive sewer collapses, the taming of recalcitrant developers and contractors, the resurfacing the citys highways, and the exploration the vast subterranean network of Victorian sewers, which lie below the citys streets. The story concludes with his success in becoming the Assistant City Engineer (Construction) for Swansea City Council.
Download or read book Peaky Blinders The Real Story of Birmingham s most notorious gangs written by Carl Chinn and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. But who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, has spent decades searching them out. Now he reveals the true story of the notorious Peaky Blinders, one of whom was his own great grandfather and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in back-street Birmingham. In this gripping social history, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War. The story continues after 1918 as some Peaky Blinders transformed into the infamous Birmingham Gang. Led by the real Billy Kimber, they fought a bloody war with the London gangsters Darby Sabini and Alfie Solomon over valuable protection rackets extorting money from bookmakers across the booming postwar racecourses of Britain. Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.
Download or read book Nine Lives Are Not Enough written by Charles Tyrie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Lives Are Not Enough is a sequel to the thrillers The Manchester Vendetta and the Cheshire Conspiracy in which Guy and Julie Manners are sought by their nemesis, Eva Howells, who is seeking to avenge the death of her lover, Max Boyston, the former head of the Internal Security Service in Manchester during the dictatorship. Imprisoned in a high-security gaol, she is rescued by sympathisers following an emergency appendectomy operation and takes refuge in a safe house at the Cross Keys Caravan Park near Hartington in the Peak District with the intention of locating an escape line to leave the country. MI5 officers Bill Mackenzie and Emma Sanderson seek to hunt her down with the assistance of Guy Manners and take down the escape line by infiltrating their agent Maggie Irvine into the organisation. The destruction of a safe house in Maidenhead and the interrogation of its staff by MI5 at its Cliveden House interrogation centre leads to a final reckoning with Eva Howells and the elimination of the terrorists escape line.
Download or read book The Langley Boy to Be Better Than the Best written by Charles Tyrie and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, The Langley Boy To Be Better Than The Best! Part 3 of the Langley Boy Trilogy, is the story of the authors ultimate success in fulfilling his long-held ambition to become a chief officer in local government, responsible for engineering, architecture, land management, and direct labour organisations. It details the David and Goliath struggle between local authorities and central government to prevent the privatisation of essential services such as refuse collection and cleansing and the maintenance of highways, sewers, vehicles, parks, and open spaces. It outlines the authors leadership and management skills, his philosophy that failure is inconceivable, and his successful reorganisation of the councils workforces at Swansea and Rushcliffe to protect employees jobs, pensions, and conditions of service. The book contains family anecdotes of moving homes, creating new gardens, a wedding, the joys of grandchildren, the sadness of parents deaths, taking children to theme parks and pantomimes, and the fun of dressing up as hippies, punk rockers, and clowns at family parties. There is a fund of stories involving the author and his wife Hilary, hiring a narrow boat with friends to cruise the Cheshire Ring, buying a caravan to tour parts of the UK, travelling to Germany to sample its wines, and suffering from chateaux fatigue in the Loire Valley. It covers a trip to Spain to solve the first recorded incident of bearnapping, events in Langley, and creating T-shirts and specialty cakes for family special occasions. As a former member and president of the Rotary Club of West Bridgford, the author organised a series of charitable fashion shows, duck races, Christmas collections, and other events to help the less fortunate in the UK and overseas. In retirement, he became chairman of governors at West Bridgford Infant School, during which time the school was designated as outstanding by Ofsted.
Download or read book Vendetta written by Paul Ferris and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The armed guards and Alsatians stayed put as the prison gates slammed shut. 'I'm going straight,' Paul Ferris announced to the press, then sped off in a waiting car. Before he'd reached the first corner, the journalists were after him. And they weren't the only ones . . . Paul Ferris ruled crime in Scotland. He had links to London firms, Manchester gangs and Liverpool faces. He'd been accused of murdering The Godfather's son, Fatboy, and found not guilty. Some cops talked of killing him. Now he was telling the world that he was walking away from his life of crime. But would they let him? Vendetta tells the astonishing inside story of what happened next to Paul Ferris. And it's a story of international gangsters, hit contracts, murders, bank scams, Essex-boy torturers, corrupt politics, crackhead hitmen, knife duels, terrorists and more. In Vendetta, Paul Ferris slashes open the underbelly of Britain's streets and exposes the dark forces that police them as well as revealing the truth about what really happened to him and about the conspiracies and corruption that won't leave him alone. For years, new enemies and old foes have tried to silence Paul Ferris. But it's Ferris who's here to tell the tale while many of them are not. And some tale it is.
Download or read book Vendetta written by Heather Burnside and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Adele's brother, Peter, gets banged up for GBH she reluctantly agrees to run his nightclub, The Golden Bell. Strong opposition from Peter's thuggish number two, Glynn, who isn't best pleased about answering to a woman, isn't the only challenge she faces. The Manchester club scene of the 1990s is a dangerous place, at the mercy of illicit protection rackets and rampaging gangs, and, despite Adele's efforts to keep everything legal, the club is beginning to feel like a poisoned chalice. Meanwhile, Glynn is playing his own ruthless game, and when a savage gang attack has devastating consequences Adele is ready to walk away. But Peter has always stood by her and she owes him big time. Besides, where else would an ex-con find work? And someone has to protect her brother's empire from his enemies. Right now, Adele knows she is the only one that Peter can trust, but the stakes may soon get too high...
Download or read book Register of Yachts written by Lloyd's Register of Shipping (Firm : 1914- ) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics of Withdrawal written by Pepita Hesselberth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of Withdrawal considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today. With contributions of major theorists in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies and media studies, the chapters investigate the multiple contexts, possibilities and impasses of political withdrawal – from the radical to the seemingly mundane – and reflect a range of case studies varying from the political thinking of Debord, the Invisible Committee, Moten and Harney, feminist notions of ‘strike’ and ‘exit’, and indigenous forms of sabotage, to the individual retreat as means of reconfiguring political subjectivity. It looks at technological failure as disconnection from surveillance, and from alternative financial futures to contemporary ‘pharmako-politics.’ The volume provides a vital grip on a key notion in contemporary radical politics, in all its complexity, contradictions and tribulations.
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Download or read book The Downfall of the Liberal Party 1914 1935 written by Trevor Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1914 the Liberal Party had been governing Britain ever since its stunning general election victory of 1906. Four years later the Party was out of office, and so enfeebled it would never again form a government. What prompted the Liberal decline in the years of The Great War, and why did this decline then accelerate? Trevor Wilson's classic study analyses the strains exerted on Liberal principles by war, and the leadership crisis induced in 1916 by Lloyd George's ousting of Asquith. 'A good political mystery, and Mr Wilson has told it in fine dramatic style.' A.J.P. Taylor 'Offers portraits of those rivals, Asquith and Lloyd George, that are among the best - the most plausible and the most temperate - available.' New Yorker
Download or read book Critical Directions in Comics Studies written by Thomas Giddens and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia Wysocki Recent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root—assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its “system” works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics. In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics’ creation and reception. Through this lens, influenced by poststructuralist theories, contributors explore and elaborate other possibilities for working with comics as a critical resource, consolidating the emergence of these alternative modes of engagement in a single text. This opens comics studies to a wider array of resources, perspectives, and modes of engagement. Included in this volume are essays on a range of comics and illustrations as well as considerations of such popular comics as Deadpool, Daredevil, and V for Vendetta, and analyses of comics production, medical illustrations, and original comics. Some contributions even unfold in the form of comics panels.
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