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Revolutionary, unionist and socialist James Connolly is best known
for his part in organizing the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, a
flash point in Irish history. Yet the Rising was just one defining
event in a career devoted to peaceful activism for Irish
independence, social justice for the working class, and the rights
of women. This biography traces the political life of an unassuming
advocate for nonviolent social change at the ballot box, who later
helped lead a violent insurrection to establish an Irish Republic
and was executed by a British firing squad.
Although tall, thin, blond and gorgeous, Breken Annersen suffers
from body dysmorphic disorder. She's got a 'glamour job' at an
international gossip magazine, but dreams of a Pulitzer. All Brek
WANTS on her Paris assignment is some dirt on a few starlets when
she attends a chic film soiree with a handsome, irreverent
freelancer, Hutch Branigan. But when a terrorist BOMB RIPS the
star-studded event apart, chasing terrorists becomes part of her
job description. This tossed-together pair witnesses the murder of
a starlet who'd been at the Paris bombing, and hours later see the
U. S. ambassador's daughter immolated on a dark fortress wall at
the Cannes Film Festival. And now, there's a hit man on their
trail. The 'glamour job' turns into a whodunit for Brek and Hutch.
Their hunt leads them through a maze of diplomats, suave singers,
movie stars and prostitutes - and the FBI and the Mafia. From the
French Rivera to the Swiss mountains they find MURDER, CORRUPTION
and espionage born in Kabul, that spreads across Europe and the
U.S. And amid the peril and violence Brek and Hutch find a
smoldering ATTRACTION for each other. Which could lead to romance,
or heartbreak, or worse.
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Sharp 9th (Paperback)
Sean Cronin
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R448
Discovery Miles 4 480
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Sharp 9th - A Skinner Malloy Mystery After a combat stint as a U.S.
Marine, Skinner Malloy had a successful career in rock music -
until he trashed the men who raped his band mate, Gillian Carroll.
Convicted of assault and out on parole, gigs have dried up. As she
tries to heal herself after the assault, Gillian needs the
stability of her advertising job. But her client, Consolidated
Insurance, has her fired for bogus reasons. Worse, someone is still
spreading lies. Skinner and Gillian team up to find the real reason
she's been fired. They discover that Consolidated employees are
dying in accidents that are anything but. And haltingly, they find
tender feelings for each other. Then Gillian disappears. Murder,
conspiracy, corruption and attempted love, Sharp 9th reveals a
world of homicide, insurance-government collusion, crooked cops,
pornographers and private security goons - in which Gillian and
Skinner try to find intimacy despite the emotional damage caused by
rape and war.
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