This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lawrence Joseph Scott was born in 1910 in Saskatchewan, Canada. His family made their way south and ended up in Alabama. In 1924, having finished 8th grade at the age of 14, L.J. lied about his age and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.Sometime in the 1930s, L.J. was stationed in Peking, China. As a member of the famous China Marines, he performed his duties on horseback. For a period of time, his commanding officer was Captain Le...

‘The Great Gatsby’ van F. Scott Fitzgerald gaat over de steenrijke eenling Jay Gatsby. Onder de broeierige oppervlakte van zijn leven schuilt een geheim: een stil, onmogelijk verlangen naar Daisy Buchanan. En deze destructieve obsessie dreigt alles te vernietigen. ‘The Great Gatsby’ is het hoogtepunt uit het oeuvre van F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), en een schitterend geschreven portret van Amerika in de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw. ‘De belangrijkste roman in mijn leven.’ – Haruki M...

De grote Gatsby van F. Scott Fitzgerald gaat over de steenrijke eenling Jay Gatsby. Onder de broeierige oppervlakte van zijn leven schuilt een geheim: een stil, onmogelijk verlangen naar Daisy Buchanan. En deze destructieve obsessie dreigt alles te vernietigen.De grote Gatsby is het hoogtepunt uit het oeuvre van F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), en een schitterend geschreven portret van Amerika in de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw.De belangrijkste roman in mijn leven. Haru...

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed.Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: "If we l...

Los Angeles, 1916: Photographer Bill Ogden has opened a portrait studio in the seedy noir world of early Hollywood, where he is joined by his granddaughter, Flavia—a woman in need of a fresh start after bludgeoning her drunken, abusive husband to death in Wichita. Though his business is mainly legit, Bill finds himself brushing up against the “blue movie” porn industry growing in the shadows of the motion picture mainstream.When a series of grisly murders take place across the city...

Waren de roaring twenties het toneel van De grote Gatsby, in deze roman uit 1934 richt Fitzgerald zijn blik op het decennium daarna. De gevierde psychiater Dick Diver en zijn steenrijke echtgenote Nicole hebben een indrukwekkende villa in Zuid-Frankrijk. Hun huis staat gastvrij open voor een aantal illustere landgenoten. Een van hen is de filmster Rosemary Hoyt, die al spoedig verliefd wordt op Dick. Aanvankelijk ziet zij niet welk effect dit heeft op de relatie van de Divers, maar als Dic...

Listener note: This audiobook follows on from the end of "Where Death Meets the Devil". Meta-State spy Jack Reardon believes that after the showdown, everything has been taken care of. He has a verbal agreement with his boss to keep Blade happy, and Jack is more than willing to do his best in that regard. He also has his bargain with Ethan to keep seeing each other. Small victories, interspersed with exploding bombs, smashed cars, and miffed co-workers, all while consorting with an interna...

Decent Fellows Press presents Where Death Meets the Devil, book one in the stunning, original Death and the Devil M/M thriller series.Jack Reardon, former SAS soldier and current Australian Meta-State asset, has seen some messy battles. But messy takes on a whole new meaning when he finds himself tied to a chair in a torture shack, his cover blown wide open, all thanks to notorious killer-for-hire Ethan Blade.Blade is everything Jack doesn't believe in: remorseless, detached,...

Listener note: This audiobook follows on from the novel Where Death Meets the Devil and the novella Bargaining with the Devil. It contains the stories When the Devil Drives and At Death's Door.Work-life balance for a spy may be an oxymoron, but Jack Reardon likes a good challenge, and he's almost bested this one! He's settled into his Meta-State promotion as a field leader and into his new team with a second he can trust. Shop in order, Jack can take a day or two off when Ethan blow...

Winner of the 2018 Gold Medal in Women / Minorities in Business, Axiom Business Book Awards • Shortlisted for the 2019 CMI Management Book of the Year in “Aspiring Leaders,” Chartered Management InstituteWhat if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do in order to make society more integrated and just? What if diversity can also improve the bottom line of businesses and other organizations facing complex challenges in the knowledge economy? It ...

Listener note: This audiobook follows on from the novel Where Death Meets the Devil and the subsequent novellas Bargaining with the Devil and When the Devil Drives.If there's one thing assassin Ethan Blade knows, it's how to plan a job. How to study a target, find the weak spot, and strike. He keeps his guns clean, his knives sharp, and his heart sealed away behind more locks than his precious cars. Alone but safe.Until Jack Reardon burrowed his way into Ethan's life, his car...

De grote Gatsby van F. Scott Fitzgerald gaat over de steenrijke eenling Jay Gatsby. Onder de broeierige oppervlakte van zijn leven schuilt een geheim: een stil, onmogelijk verlangen naar Daisy Buchanan. En deze destructieve obsessie dreigt alles te vernietigen. De grote Gatsby is het hoogtepunt uit het oeuvre van F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), en een schitterend geschreven portret van Amerika in de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw. De belangrijkste roman in mijn leven. Haruki Murakami