This is the United Kingdom, but it's no country you know. No place you ever want to see, even in the howling, shuttered madness of your worst dreams. You survived. man.You walk because you have to. You have no choice. At the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country, your little boy is either alive or dead. You have to know. You have to find an end to it all. hope.The sky crawls with venomous cloud and burning red rain. The land is a scorched sprawl of rubble and corpses. Rats have risen from the depths to gorge on the carrion. A glittering dust coats everything and it hides a terrible secret. New horrors are taking root. You walk on. chance.
After years on the run, Burke is desperate to return to his native New York, the only way he can reconnect with his outlaw "family." But to survive in their part of the City, where reputation is everything, Burke must take major risks to reestablish his presence. So when a Mafia man contacts him about the murder-as-message of his sixteen-year-old daughter - the offspring of what he calls an "outside the tribe" affair that he must keep secret at all costs - Burke's depleted bankroll persuades him to step out of the shadows and do something he hasn't done ...
In this fiendishly imaginative book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because with that name has been touring Israel, promoting a bizarre reverse exodus of the Jews. Roth is intent on stopping him, even if that means impersonating his own impersonator.With excruciating suspense, unfettered philosophical speculation, and a cast of characters that includes Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous, Operation Shylock barrels across the frontier between fact and fiction, seriousness and high comedy, history and nightmare.
Science fiction, Lee-style. A U.S. Air Force test pilot recruited for a very special mission: to fly an operational recovered UFO. Any test pilot’s dream, right? Wrong. Special disfiguring surgery is required for anyone human who wants to fly the craft. This brilliant novella proves to detractors that Lee can write in many arenas, not just horror, and doesn’t have to rely on the “gross-out".
J. MAULIN?P?DASST?STI PAR VESTURIRom?n? att?lotie notikumi norisin?ju?ies zviedru—po?a kara (no 1600. gada l?dz 1629. gadam) beig?s, kad Vidzem? iest?j?s ilgi gaid?tais miers.Septi?padsmitais gadsimts.Me?malas m?j? bez skurste?a ar apsnigu?u salmu jumtu dzirdamas dziesmas. Sievas un meitas s?? ap skala guni, v?rpj un dzied. Melodija paz?stama, sprigana un skaidra. Griestu ba??i nokv?pu?i. Pie sienas uz plata sola, ar ka?okseg?m apsegu?ies, virsdr?bes nenovilku?i, gu? b?rni. Uz akmens kr?sns liel?, glud? un silt? st?ra snau? pel?ks ka?is un sap?o par zvirbu?iem, kurus dien? redz?jis ielienam rijas salmu jumt?. Kaut kur gaisos top teiksma, bet teiksmas laikabiedri to pat nenojau?. T? tas bijis vienm?r. Daudzi v?l?k tai tic?s, daudzi netic?s. T? tas bijis un b?s.., Bet ?r?, sila t?lumos, joproj?m gaudo vilki.Un kl?st vilka?i...
Amazon.com ReviewWhen last encountered (2000's ), career criminal Burke was on the rebound from a nearly successful assassination attempt, lying low and licking his wounds in Portland, Oregon. Severed from his connections in NYC, Burke survives on jobs--"violence for money" mostly--brokered by his live-in lover, Gem, an Asian beauty with a painful, larcenous past and a present to match.At hand is a task Burke has done before: the recovery of a runaway, a 16-year-old girl named Rosebud. But Burke, an assassin with scruples, knows when things aren't right. Rosebud's father, Kevin, has a '60...
