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Fellow Travelers (Paperback): Thomas Mallon Fellow Travelers (Paperback)
Thomas Mallon
R480 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R95 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It's 1950s Washington, D.C.: a world of bare-knuckled ideology and secret dossiers, dominated by personalities like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Joe McCarthy. Enter Timothy Laughlin, a recent college graduate and devout Catholic eager to join the crusade against Communism. An encounter with a handsome State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim's first job and, after Fuller's advances, his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts a desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on "sexual subversives" in the government, Tim and Fuller find it ever more dangerous to navigate their double lives.
Moving between the diplomatic world of Foggy Bottom and NATO's front line in Europe, "Fellow Travelers" is a searing historical novel infused with political drama, unexpected humor, and genuine heartbreak.

The Missionary Position - Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback, New): Christopher Hitchens The Missionary Position - Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Paperback, New)
Christopher Hitchens; Foreword by Thomas Mallon
R467 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R68 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was duly honored and taken at her word."
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than THE MISSIONARY POSITION, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa.
A Nobel Peace Prize recipient beatified by the Catholic Church in 2003, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was celebrated by heads of state and adored by millions for her work on behalf of the poor. In his measured critique, Hitchens asks only that Mother Teresa's reputation be judged by her actions-not the other way around.
With characteristic elan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy who long opposed measures to end poverty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world."

American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand - Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol.1 (Hardcover): James Ellroy American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand - Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol.1 (Hardcover)
James Ellroy; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
R669 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

American Tabloid gives us John F. Kennedy's rise and fall from an insider's perspective. We're there for the rigged 1960 election and for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. We're the eyes and ears and souls of three rogue cops who've signed on for the ride and come to see Jack as their betrayer. And we're there in Dallas in 1963 where it all comes to a brutal end. The Cold Six Thousand the cover-up for the Kennedy assassination begins. This time the ride takes us from Dallas to Vietnam to Las Vegas to Memphis to Cuba to the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. We're rubbing shoulders Klansmen and mafiosi, killers, hoods and provocateurs. WIth Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. And of course a lot of corrupt policemen. Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Revolution brews in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to live History'. The American dream as Nightmare.

Henry and Clara (Paperback): Thomas Mallon Henry and Clara (Paperback)
Thomas Mallon
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blending fact with fiction, Mallon vividly re-creates the tragic story of Henry and Clara Rathbone--the young couple who sat in the President's box on the night of Lincoln's assassination. Witnessing the event that shook the entire nation changed their lives forever, leading to guilt, madness, and eventually murder. A moving and astonishing story based on a little known tale.

Watergate - A Novel (Paperback): Thomas Mallon Watergate - A Novel (Paperback)
Thomas Mallon
R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A" New York Times" Notable Book
A "Washington Post" Notable Book
A "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" Best Book of 2012
A 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist
From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated--uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs--it falls at last to a novelist reconstruct some of the scandal's greatest mysteries (who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape?) and to see this gaudy American catastrophe in its human entirety. In "Watergate," Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew before now. Mallon achieves with "Watergate" a scope and historical intimacy that surpasses even what he attained in his previous novels, and turns a "third-rate burglary" into a tumultuous, first-rate entertainment.

Blood's a Rover - Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol. 2 (Hardcover): James Ellroy Blood's a Rover - Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol. 2 (Hardcover)
James Ellroy; Introduction by Thomas Mallon 1
R636 R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Revolution brews in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to live History'.

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