Cresciuto in una famiglia adottiva e fuggito di casa quand'era ancora un adolescente, Driver ha imparato presto ad arrangiarsi nella vita. E ha imparato pure quanto l'America possa essere dura con chi ha pochi mezzi. Dagli altri non si aspetta nulla e c'è solo una cosa che sa fare davvero bene: guidare. Guida per il cinema, come stuntman a Hollywood, prendendosi i rischi che gli attori veri non si prendono. E guida per i criminali, condividendo con loro pericoli e guadagni. Alle sue attivi...

Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, this noir novel, "is full of sly humor, poetic details and plenty of rude violence . . . A terrific ride" ( Los Angeles Times).I drive. That's what I do. All I do.The gritty back streets of Los Angeles are the backdrop for what the New York Times calls "a perfect piece of noir fiction" in which the Driver is double-crossed in a burglary gone horribly wrong.This beautiful new edition i...

This introductory textbook presents research methods and data analysis tools in non-technical language. It explains the research process and the basics of qualitative and quantitative data analysis, including procedures and methods, analysis, interpretation, and applications using hands-on data examples in QDA Miner Lite and IBM SPSS Statistics software. The book is divided into four parts that address study and research design; data collection, qualitative methods and surveys; statistical...

David (c'est du moins sous ce nom qu'on le connaît) était un des maîtres espions de l'Amérique pendant les jours sombres de la guerre froide. Mais ces temps sont loins et, depuis neuf ans, il n'est plus qu'un citoyen ordinaire... jusqu'à ce qu'un coup de fil le réveille au milieu de la nuit. Le seul autre survivant connu des corps d'élite des maîtres espions est devenu dingue. On a besoin de David pour l'arrêter. S'ensuit un gigantesque jeu du chat et de la souris aux quatre coins de l'Amé...

A compelling call for compassion and resilience in the maw of social dissolution from literary legend James Sallis, master of many genres and Nebula, Edgar, and Shamus–nominated author of DriveAll I wanted was for my life, when you picked it up in your hands, to have some weight to it.In a not-so-distant future the United States has fragmented, balkanizing into unstable provinces often at war with one another, and American...

Drive, James Sallis's critically acclaimed thriller about a movie stunt-man who moonlights as a getaway driver for the mob, became an award-winning film, directed by Nicholas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan and introduced Sallis to a worldwide audience - this is the stunning sequelSeven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a succ...

"[A] smart, conscientious, often stylish biography" of the great African American crime writer of the mid-twentieth century ( The New York Times).Best known for The Harlem Cycle, the series of crime stories featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, Chester Himes was a novelist and memoirist whose work was neglected and underappreciated in his native America during the 1950s and '60s, even as he was awarded France's most prestigious crime fiction ...

'I drive. That's what I do. All I do.' 'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sou...

Lew Griffin has quit the detective business and withdrawn to the safety of his old home in New Orleans’ Garden District, where he copes with his past by transforming it into fiction. But following the death of a close friend, he returns to the streets—not only the urban ones he has conquered but also those of the rural South that he escaped long ago—to search for the runaway daughter he didn’t know his friend had.Griffin discovers that we rarely know anyone, even those closest to u...

A hired killer on his final job; a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony; a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits. Three people, solitary and disconnected from society.The detective is looking for the killer, Christian, though he doesn't know that. Christian is trying to find the man who stepped in and took down his target before he had the chance. And the boy, Jimmie, is having the killer's dreams. While they never meet, they are in...

John Turner est venu se réfugier dans le Tennessee, sur les bords d'un lac. Ancien taulard, ancien flic devenu thérapeute, homme seul à l'histoire violente, il ne souhaite que le calme, une forme de pardon et l'oubli d'un passé mêlant meurtres et survie. L'endroit semble idéal. Á peine installé pourtant, le sheriff vient le trouver et lui demande de l'aide. Un jeune vagabond a été retrouvé mort dans une ruelle, les mains liées au-dessus de la tête, un pieu planté dans le cœur. Personne ne ...

As much a classic detective story as it is a literary masterpiece, The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to Lew Griffin: tough, smart, and living in a corner of society where life is fought for as much as it is lived.In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has taken on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search le...