Jack the thief comes out of retirement seduced by easy money and seen by him as a simple steal to order proposition. However, it all becomes a surreal nightmare as he learns from MI5 intelligence he is now involved in an Iranian terrorist plot against the UK. He commits numerous crimes to obtain the secret XP42 formula not knowing he and the terrorists are being watched. He becomes witness to official executions and learns his relationships with two beautiful women were set up for him by MI5 and the Iranians. Blackmail, sex, murder. and espionage were not part of Jacks plan to obtain the XP42 formula. It ends in a terrorism trial at the Old Bailey and Jack vows to return to his retirement and writes a book about his experiences called A CHOICE OF EVILS. Views: 29
"His people and dogs—those wonderful dogs!—come alive with honest, thrumming energy." —The New York Times Book ReviewWinner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. In each of these "weird and wonderful stories" (Boston Globe), Brad Watson writes about people and dogs: dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions; and people responding to dogs as missing parts of themselves. "Elegant and elegiac, beautifully pitched to the human ear, yet resoundingly felt in our animal hearts" (New York Newsday), Watson's vibrant prose captures the animal crannies of the human personality—yearning for freedom, mourning the loss of something wild, drawn to human connection but also to thoughtless abandon and savagery without judgment. Pinckney Benedict praises Watson's writing as "crisp as a morning in deer season, rife with spirited... Views: 29
A great series about the real life mischief every boy gets up to! Written in simple language and full of Australian humour. Charlie has 'borrowed' three dollars from his mum to buy an icy pole, and Charlie's dad has brought home a dingo pup. So Mum isn't happy with either Dad or Charlie! To get back in her good books Charlie has to quickly find a way to recoup the three dollars and work out how to keep the pup. It's not hard to believe that trouble follows, but the ever-resourceful Charlie soon finds a plan. Views: 29
Exiled exorcist Lucian Negru deserted his lover in Hell in exchange for saving his sister Catarina's soul, but Catarina doesn't want salvation. She wants Lucian to help her fulfill her dark covenant with the Fallen Angels by using his power to open the Hell Gates. Catarina intends to lead the Fallen's hordes out of Hell and into the parallel dimension of Woerld, Heaven's frontline of defense between Earth and Hell. When Lucian refuses to help his sister, she imprisons and cripples him, but Lucian learns that Rachael, the lover he betrayed and abandoned in Hell, is dying from a demonic possession. Determined to rescue Rachael from the demon he unleashed on her soul, Lucian flees his sister, but Catarina's wrath isn't so easy to escape.In the end, she will force him once more to choose between losing Rachael or opening the Hell Gates so Fallen's hordes may overrun Earth, their last obstacle before reaching Heaven's Gates. Views: 29
Big Jim Rand didn't plan on becoming the guest of honor at a shotgun wedding, but this was what the roughneck Gillery brothers had in mind when they kidnapped the tall avenger and his sidekick — that philosophical Mexican, little Benito.To add to Big Jim's troubles, outlaw Pete Holbrook and his cutthroat crew were closing in on the Gillery ranch, preparing to kidnap or murder the high-spirited Lucy Rose, sister of the hard-boiled Gillerys.Here are Big Jim and Benito, caught in the middle of another dangerous intrigue, another crisis that could only end in a gunsmoke showdown. Views: 29
