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A LETHAL STORM. A DEADLY PRISON. WHO WILL SURVIVE THE NIGHT? 'From
page one, BREAKOUT slams the cell door on the reader and refuses to
release them' LINCOLN CHILD, New York Times bestselling author.
Jack Constantine - a former cop who killed one of his wife's
murderers in an act of vengeance - is serving his time in Ravenhill
penitentiary, a notorious 'supermax' home to the most dangerous
convicts in the country. When an apocalyptic superstorm wreaks
havoc across the USA, the correctional officers flee the
prison...but not before opening every cell door. The inmates must
fend for themselves as lethal floodwaters rise and violent anarchy
is unleashed. Teaming up with Kiera Sawyer, a Correctional Officer
left behind on her first day of work, Constantine has one chance of
survival - he must break out of a maximum security prison. But with
the building on the verge of collapse, and deadly chaos around him,
time is running out... 'From page one, BREAKOUT slams the cell door
on the reader and refuses to release them' LINCOLN CHILD,
bestselling author. 'Brutal, blood-boltered, and insistently
cinematic; a pulp triumph' DOMINIC NOLAN Breathless, exhilarating
and brilliantly original, this high-octane thriller is perfect for
fans of Gregg Hurwitz, Lee Child and David Baldacci - and
blockbuster action movies like John Wick. Readers are gripped by
BREAKOUT: 'On the edge of my seat and read it in a day...can see it
being made into a movie' ***** Goodreads Reviewer 'Gripping,
action-packed, and intense... The fast-paced plot made me want to
speed through this book' ***** Goodreads Reviewer 'Fast, furious
and nerve jangling adventure' ***** Goodreads Reviewer
The incestuous affair between the writer AnaĆÆs Nin and her father,
the pianist-composer JoaquĆn Nin, is well documented in the volume
of her unexpurgated diary published under the title Incest. What
has been missing from that account is JoaquĆn's point of view.
Reunited: The Correspondence of AnaĆÆs and JoaquĆn Nin, 1933-1940
presents more than one hundred intimate communications between
these two artistic geniuses, revealing not only the dynamics of
their complex relationship but also why AnaĆÆs spent her life in a
never-ending battle to feel loved, appreciated, and understood.
Reunited collects the correspondence between AnaĆÆs and JoaquĆn
just before, during, and after the affair, which commenced in 1933,
twenty years after he had abandoned his ten-year-old daughter and
the rest of his family. These letters were long believed to have
been destroyed and lost to history. In 2006, however, a folder
containing JoaquĆn's original letters to his daughter was
discovered in AnaĆÆs's Los Angeles home, along with a second folder
of her letters to him. Together, these letters tell the story of an
absent father's attempt to reconnect with his adult daughter and
how that rapprochement quickly turned into an illicit sexual
relationship.
A LETHAL STORM. THE MOST DEADLY PRISON. WHO WILL SURVIVE THE NIGHT?
'This is a stylish, heart-pounding thriller that would make one
hell of a good film.' CRIME REVIEW Jack Constantine - a former cop
who killed one of his wife's murderers in an act of vengeance - is
serving his time in Ravenhill penitentiary, a notorious 'supermax'
home to the most dangerous convicts in the country. When an
apocalyptic superstorm wreaks havoc across the USA, the
correctional officers flee the prison...but not before opening
every cell door. The inmates must fend for themselves as lethal
floodwaters rise and violent anarchy is unleashed. Teaming up with
Kiera Sawyer, a Correctional Officer left behind on her first day
of work, Constantine has one chance of survival - he must break out
of a maximum security prison. But with the building on the verge of
collapse, and deadly chaos around him, time is running out...
Breathless, exhilarating and brilliantly original, this high-octane
thriller is perfect for fans of Gregg Hurwitz, Lee Child and David
Baldacci - and blockbuster action movies like John Wick.
Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled
Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker
Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be
"the One," the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for
connection. In the middle looms a period Nin describes as "hell,"
during which she experiences a kind of erotic madness, a delirium
that fuels her search for love. As a child suffering abandonment by
her father, Anais wrote, "Close your eyes to the ugly things," and,
against a horrifying backdrop of war and death, Nin combats the
world's darkness with her own search for light. Mirages collects,
for the first time, the story that was cut from all of Nin's other
published diaries, particularly volumes 3 and 4 of The Diary of
Anais Nin, which cover the same time period. It is the long-awaited
successor to the previous unexpurgated diaries Henry and June,
Incest, Fire, and Nearer the Moon. Mirages answers the questions
Nin readers have been asking for decades: What led to the demise of
Nin's love affair with Henry Miller? Just how troubled was her
marriage to Hugh Guiler? What is the story behind Nin's "children,"
the effeminate young men she seemed to collect at will? Mirages is
a deeply personal story of heartbreak, despair, desperation,
carnage, and deep mourning, but it is also one of courage,
persistence, evolution, and redemption that reaches beyond the
personal to the universal.
Anais Nin made her reputation through publication of her edited
diaries and the carefully constructed persona they presented. It
was not until decades later, when the diaries were published in
their unexpurgated form, that the world began to learn the full
details of Nin's fascinating life and the emotional and literary
high-wire acts she committed both in documenting it and in defying
the mores of 1950s America. Trapeze begins where the previous
volume, Mirages, left off: when Nin met Rupert Pole, the young man
who became not only her lover but later her husband in a bigamous
marriage. It marks the start of what Nin came to call her "trapeze
life," swinging between her longtime husband, Hugh Guiler, in New
York and her lover, Pole, in California, a perilous lifestyle she
continued until her death in 1977. Today what Nin did seems
impossible, and what she sought perhaps was impossible: to find
harmony and completeness within a split existence. It is a story of
daring and genius, love and pain, largely unknown until now.
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