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'A useful contribution to an overcrowded field of history by giving
deserved attention to the ordinary men and unsung machines that
aren't usually included in the dramatic narrative.' - The Times 'A
great read and a real eye-opener to anyone who thinks the Battle of
Britain is only about Brits and Germans and Messerschmitts and
Spitfires. The value in this account is also the way the back
stories of many previously unheralded pilots come to life.' -
General Sir David Richards, former Chief of the Defence Staff ***
In Battle of Britain: The pilots and planes that made history, Ed
Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their
machines as the battle for air superiority over Britain is played
out across the skies of Europe, from the west of Ireland to the
German capital. We experience the battle chronologically through
the remarkable stories of eighteen airmen from across the world.
Some will be new to many readers: the New Zealander who "borrowed"
a seaplane from the Royal Navy to set up a freelance air-sea rescue
service that saved the lives of dozens of British and German
pilots; the Swiss baron who claimed to have destroyed six British
fighters in a day; the vainglorious commander whose RAF squadron
was wiped out trying to disrupt Nazi invasion plans; and the German
bomber pilot who fought the first battle involving foreign troops
on British soil since Culloden - before repairing to a pub for a
pint with soldiers who had taken him prisoner. Illustrated with
contemporary photographs of the pilots and their aircraft, this is
an enthralling and original account from both sides of a conflict
that shaped the modern world, full of courage, endeavour and, above
all, humanity.
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful
reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think
you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the
mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of...
Dean Koontz's City of the Night
They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans
ever created--and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor
Helios--once Frankenstein--can stop the engineered killers he's set
loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the
only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human
partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison.
Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and
failed attempt to build the perfect human-and it is fated to end in
the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad
creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even
Victor's malignant mind could have imagined--an indestructible
entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one
purpose: to replace us.
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Texas Wind (Hardcover)
James Reasoner; Foreword by Ed Gorman
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"one of the great cult hardboiled novels of our time." Ed Gorman
When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what
should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes
that he's taken on more than he bargained for. The facts
surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessman's daughter,
twenty-year-old Mandy Traft, are far from clear. Did she run off
with her boyfriend? Or has she been kidnapped? With each step Cody
takes, the case becomes increasingly dangerous. Before long, he's
been warned off, and bodies are starting to tumble. He knows he
should get out while he still can. But he can't. Not until he finds
Mandy. TEXAS WIND is James Reasoner's debut novel that has achieved
a legendary status since its publication in 1980. Considered by
many to be one of the best private eye novels ever written, TEXAS
WIND is finally back in print.
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Truth Always Kills (Paperback)
Rick Ollerman; Introduction by Ben Boulden, Ed Gorman
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14 stories by a master of dark suspense who does for the American
Midwest what Stephen King has done for Maine. In the title story, a
young man working in a video store is captivated when the actress
he has lusted after in so many horror films arrives in town hiding
her identity. Says crime novelist Tom Piccirilli in his
introduction: " T]his new collection, like all the collections
before it, is full of atmospheric, dark tales of folks pushed too
far, haunted characters trying to clear their heads or their
guilt-laden souls." With an afterword in which Gorman discusses the
origins of some of his work.
Political Consultant Devlin Conrad had the feeling that his very
married client Senator Robert Logan was a lot more involved with
the beautiful and mysterious Tracy Cabot than he wanted to admit.
But he learned too late that the Cabot woman was a spy working for
a shadowy right-wing organization - too late because by then she'd
been found murdered in Senator Logan's fishing cabin, and the
police are certain that he killed her. But Conrad finds numerous
suspects in the Senator's mansion and in the somewhat comic but
dangerous figure of political saboteur Howie Ruskin. He must find
the real killer if he is to win the election for a client whose
vanity and arrogance make him right at home in the United States
Senate.
Publishers Weekly: "A strong collection." 13 tales by a master of
the dark suspense story. Lethal parents, a rapist cop, a con trying
to go straight, a dying vigilante. "One of our finest contemporary
short story writers regardless of genre" (Jon Breen, Ellery Queen's
Mystery Magazine).
This is a collection of 23 short stories of suspense and terror.
This is the first of the Robert Payne series, written in 1994.
Payne is an ex-FBI profiler who gets offered $10,000 in an unmarked
envelope to find the killer of a young girl. If only it were that
easy. A Ramble House book
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Texas Wind (Paperback)
James Reasoner; Foreword by Ed Gorman
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R493
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When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what
should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes
that he's taken on more than he bargained for. The facts
surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessman's daughter,
twenty-year-old Mandy Traft, are far from clear. Did she run off
with her boyfriend? Or has she been kidnapped? With each step Cody
takes, the case becomes increasingly dangerous. Before long, he's
been warned off, and bodies are starting to tumble. He knows he
should get out while he still can. But he can't. Not until he finds
Mandy. TEXAS WIND is James Reasoner's debut novel that has achieved
a legendary status since its publication in 1980. Considered by
many to be one of the best private eye novels ever written, TEXAS
WIND is finally back in print. Includes a new introduction by Ed
Gorman.
More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fiction
Each year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field.
In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. (Jon L. Breen), England (Maxim Jakubowski), Canada (Edo Van Belkom), Australia (David Honeybone), and Germany (Thomas Woertche).
Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year’s compilation, “the best value-for-money of any such anthology.”
The A-to-Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader: Robert Barnard • Lawrence Block • Jon L. Breen • Wolfgang Burger • Lillian Stewart Carl • Margaret Coel • Max Allan Collins • Bill Crider • Jeffery Deaver • Brendan DuBois • Susanna Gregory • Joseph Hansen • Carolyn G. Hart • Lauren Henderson • Edward D. Hoch • Clark Howard • Tatjana Kruse • Paul Lascaux • Dick Lochte • Peter Lovesey • Mary Jane Maffini • Ed McBain • Val McDermid • Marcia Muller • Joyce Carol Oates • Anne Perry • Nancy Pickard • Bill Pronzini • Ruth Rendell • S. J. Rozan • Billie Rubin • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • Stephan Rykena • David B. Silva • Nancy Springer • Jac. Toes • John Vermeulen • Donald E. Westlake • Carolyn Wheat.
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