Sex, lies, and shisha pipes.A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN Enslaved as a prostitute, one of too many.AN UNRELENTING JOURNALISTWho's fallen for the subject of his story.RUTHLESS THUGSGangsters, con-men, corrupt cops, pimps, arms dealers, out only for themselves.AN ACT OF SEXUAL VIOLENCEThat most men don't dare contemplate.A BOOMING CITY, ON THE EDGE.A city built on faith, where the only way out is to tell the truth.Book DescriptionDavid Bryson, a freelance journalist based in the Middle Eastern boom town of Dubai, falls for the subject of one of his stories: a beautiful woman enslaved as a prostitute. When he tries to secure her freedom he uncovers a network of violent human traffickers, money launderers and arms dealers with ties to the ruling elite. They want him dead and he wants a good story, but in a corrupt city built on spin and denial, he will be lucky to escape with his life."There is something refreshingly Hemingway-esque about Coles..." BBC's Focus magazine.ABOUT THE AUTHORFrank Coles is a media professional of nearly 20 years standing across TV, radio, news media, marketing, branding, publishing and the internet. He is a published author and has his own National Geographic web channel.Frank has lived and worked all over the Middle East, SE Asia, Europe, and as far north as the pole. Views: 13
his Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Poul Anderson, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Harry Harrison, Murray Leinster, Walter M. Miller, Jr., H. Beam Piper, Clifford Simak, Robert Silverberg, Jack Williamson, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: The Man Who Came Early, Poul Anderson The Cuckoo Clock, Wesley Barefoot Zen, Jerome Bixby Say Hello for Me, Frank Coggins The Guardians, Irving Cox Martians Never Die, Lucius Daniel Foundling on Venus, John and Dorothy De Coucy Vital Ingredient, Charles De Vet The Skull, Phillip K. Dick The Eye of Allah, Charles W. Diffin Tree, Spare that Woodman, Dave Dryfoos Service With a Smile, Charles L. Fontenay The Monster, Randall Garrett The Last Supper, T.D. Hamm The Passenger, Kenneth Harmon Goodbye Dead Man!, Tom W. Harris The Velvet Glove, Harry Harrison Prelude to Space, Robert W. Haseltine Tight Squeeze, Dean C. Ing The Jameson Satellite, Neal R. Jones A Matter of Importance, Murray Leinster The One and the Many, Stephen Marlowe Shepherd of the Planets, Alan Mattox Planet of Dreams, James McKimmey Stolen Brains, S.P. Meek The Hoofer, Walter M. Miller Jr. PRoblem, Alan Nourse The Return, H. Beam Piper & John G. McGuire Time and Time Again, H. Beam Piper The Day of the Boomer Dukes, Frederick Pohl The Hohokam Dig, Theodore Pratt Make Mine Homogenized, Rick Raphael Revolution, Mack Reynolds Spawn of the Comet, H. Thompson Rich Runaway, Joseph Samachson DP, Arthur Dekker Savage Pirates of the Gorm, Nat Schachner Gone Fishing, James H. Schmitz Alien Offer, Al Sevcik Forever, Robert Sheckley The Hour of Battle, Robert Sheckley The Happy Unfortunate, Robert Silverberg The Street That Wasn’t There, Clifford D. Simak & Carl Jacobi The Delegate from Venus, Henry Slesar The Big Fix, George O. Smith Vortex Blaster, E.E. “Doc” Smith The Planet of Dread, R.F. Starzl Sweet Their Blood and Sticky, Albert F. Teichner Homesick, Lyn Venable The Meteor Girl, Jack Williamson Views: 13
When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, CIVIL TO STRANGERS, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written commentary on her writing career.In CIVIL TO STRANGERS the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village. Views: 13
Witches and glitches and testicle obsessed cats… Oh my.
One dilemma down and approximately 74,876,283 to go. I think being the Shifter Whisperer is hard—or Shifter Wanker as I enjoy referring to my new job—but healing wounded Shifters is easy compared to finding and eliminating the lurking freaking evil.
Throw in a ghost, a potentially explosive ex-cellmate, a long lost dad and a smokin’ hot werewolf who’s convinced he’s my mate, and suddenly it’s party time—from hell.
And this is my mission?
Life is getting messy and I don’t do messy. With feelings I didn’t know I was capable of having, and the word love being thrown around like a football on Super Bowl Sunday, poofing away with a magical twitch of my nose is becoming more appealing by the moment.
But to show I’m not a weenie, I’m gonna pull up my big girl panties and hurl some fireballs at Baba Yaga's older than dirt warlock posse if they don’t pony up the info I need. If I don’t burn the town of Assjacket down while trying to save it, I’m donning my red cape and playing who’s the big bad wolf with a for real wolf who’s hotter than any fireball.
I just pray to the Goddess my heart doesn’t get burned in the process.
Keywords: demons and devils, witches, wizards, warlocks, shifters, werewolves, paranormal, fantasy Views: 13
Discover the next generation of great Canadian writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors -- including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Crummey, Annabel Lyon, Lisa Moore, Heather O'Neill, Pasha Malla, Timothy Taylor, M.G. Vassanji, and Alissa York -- have gone on to win prestigious literary awards and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and CBC's Canada Reads competition.The stories included in the anthology are contenders for the $10,000 Journey Prize, which is made possible by Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener's donation of Canadian royalties from his novel... Views: 13
Star Strauss has always been a fighter. Her life changes when she finds herself on a distant world where every creature seems to tower over her.Lord Jazin Ja Kel Coradon is known for his skills as a fierce warrior and for developing communication, security, and weapons systems. When Jazin is kidnapped, Star uses her skills as a circus performer to rescue him and stand beside him as his partner. Views: 13
A picture is worth a thousand words . . . but the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received in the mail gives rise to a thousand questions instead. At first glance it appears to be the famous portrait of Frau Schliemann adorned in the gold of Troy. But closer study reveals the picture to be contemporary—which is odd since Vicky knows the Trojan gold vanished sometime around the end of World War Two. And if she needed further proof that something here is terribly amiss, a quick look at the blood-stained envelope the photo arrived in should do the trick. Yet Vicky is not the only expert to receive this mysterious mailing. And the entire circle is gathering for a festive Bavarian Christmas—one, hopefully, to be made even more festive by the rediscovery of an ancient lost treasure. But the celebration could prove to be short—and bloody—courtesy of a very determined killer in their midst . . .
Review "A thriller from start to finish." -- -- St. Louis Post Dispatch Views: 13
