Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world’s greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the world’s greatest trapeze artist, a clairvoyant with near-supernatural powers and an implacable enemy of the East European regime that arrested his family and murdered his wife. The CIA needs such a man, and recruits Bruno for an impossible raid - on the impreganble Lubylan fortress, where his family his held. Under cover of a circus tour, Bruno prepares to return to his homeland. But before the journey even begins a murderer strikes twice. Somewhere in the circus there is a communist agent with orders to stop Bruno at any cost... Views: 100
Contains:
Ancient Sorceries - Algernon Blackwood
The Gateway of the Monster - William Hope Hodgson
The Unnamable - H. P. Lovecraft
The Thing on the Roof - Robert E. Howard
Mr. Ames’ Devil - August Derleth
In the X-Ray - Fritz Leiber, Jr.
One Foot and the Grave - Theodore Sturgeon
I Kiss Your Shadow — - Robert Bloch
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PARLEZ-VOUS MURDER?She was a French brunette, trained to kiss and kill, expert at both. Johnny had seen smooth operators before, but Andrea had the best connections he’d ever laid eyes on... and she’d put them all at his service.JOHNNY MEETS HIS PARIS MATCH IN THE SHAPE OF A TOO MUCH MADEMOISELLE WHOSE FOREIGN RELATIONS ARE MURDER! Views: 100
The Size of Thoughts, a collection of essays that have appeared in the New Yorker and other publications, includes one never-before-published piece on the world of electronics. The essays celebrate the joy--and exquisite details--of everything from library card catalogs and reading aloud to the significance of wine stains on a tablecloth.Baker turns any subject, from feeding a child to phone sex, into literature with a style that is sparklingly original, frequently beautiful, and always thought-provoking. The Size of Thoughts, through its varied forays into the realms of the overlooked, the underfunded, and the wrongfully scrapped, is a funny book by one of the most distinctive stylists and thinkers of out time. Views: 99
Eighteen Stories by Fredric Brown:
1.The Laughing Butcher2.The Four Blind Men3.The Night the World Ended4.The Motive Goes Round and Round5.Cry Silence6.The Nose of Don Aristide7.A Voice Behind Him8.Miss Darkness9.I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen10.Town Wanted11.The Greatest Poem Every Written (orig: Four Letter Word)12.Little Apple Hard to Peel13.This Way Out14.A Little White Lye15.The Dangerous People (orig: No Sanctuary)16.Cain (orig: Each Night He Died)17.The Death of Riley (orig: The Ghost of Riley)18.Don't Look Behind You Views: 99
Product DescriptionThe Three Investigators are assisted by a Greek youth as they search for clues to a mysterious thief on an island once inhabited by pirates. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.The Three Investigators made their way into the old cave. Jupiter's flashlight flicked over rocky crevices and ledges. Suddenly the light stopped. There on the edge of a rocky shelf was a human skull. It seemed to grin at the boys. And then it spoke to them. "Go 'way," it sighed, with a strong accent that sounded Spanish. "Let me 'ave my rest. No treasure is here. Only my tired old bones!" Views: 98
In an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt, Richard Farina evokes the 1960s as surely as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the 1920s. A landlocked, college-age hipster called Gnossos Pappadopoulis weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering - among other things - mescaline, women, demonology, hunting, truth, smuggling, falsehood, gluttony, prayer, science, fetishes, and occasional art. This is a classic novel of an explosive, expansive decade, a book that resonates as social history, sparkles with novellistic inventiveness and embodies the attitudes of an entire generation. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, as Thomas Pynchon writes in the introduction, "comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch." Views: 98
The Baroness drills for danger.
Baroness Penelope St. John-Orsini takes on SPOILER, a mysterious organization that threatens to turn the world's most precious commodity into an all-devouring instrument of death. Now the sensuous superspy must use every inch of her devastating body against a perverted mastermind who dreams of global conquest. Facing sadists and sea monsters, she hasn't a moment to lose — for already the lethal lubricant has begun to choke the planet in a horrible ooze of black death! Views: 98
The hired gunmen came to Mahon's place to take him away and kill him. But instead of Mahon they found a black-dressed Texas boy with a fast gun, and left him for dead, taking his horse. They had made their first big mistake. In the town of Escopeta they met two more Texans, one a handsome blond giant, the other a small insignificant-looking individual, the sort of man one would pass in the street without a second glance. The hired gunmen passed him without a second glance and in so doing made their second, and biggest, mistake. For the small man was none other than the famous Rio Hondo gun wizard, by name of Dusty Fog. Views: 98
From the PublisherWhen it came to getting the two of us in trouble, Soup was a regular genius....Soup was my best pal. His real and righteous name was Luther Wesley Vinson, but nobody called him Luther. He didn't like it. I called him Luther just once, which promoted Soup to break me of a very bad habit before it really got formed. As soon as the swelling went out of my lip, I called him Soup instead of Thoop.Here are the stories of that friendship, and of the troubles--stories from a boyhood filled with barrels to roll in, apples to whip, windows to break, ropes to bind prisoners, acorn pepes, and ten-cent Saturday movies.But then as always nothing was quite as important as a best friend. From the Inside Flap"Rural Vermont during the 1920's is the setting for this nostalgic account of episodes in the lives of young Robert Peck and his pal, Soup."--starred, School Library Journal Views: 98
A classic Ngaio Marsh mystery thriller combining drugs and sacrifice.High in mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr Oberon, leader of a coven of witches. It is not the historic castle, however, that intrigues Roderick Alleyn, on holiday with his family, but the suspicion that a huge drugs ring operates from within its ancient portals.But before the holiday is over, someone else has stumbled upon the secret. And Mr Oberon decides his strange and terrible rituals require a human sacrifice--¦ Views: 98
