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From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. • “Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland…. Arguably Ellis's best.” —The Boston GlobeThe basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, The...

**The first novel from a global literary superstar and author of The Sound of Things Falling."Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Informers is a thrilling new discovery.” —Colm Tóibín"One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature**When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of...

A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelist’s absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival**—with a new introduction by James Wood.**Richard Tull, a failed and disillusioned novelist, seethes with envy as he watches his longtime friend Gwyn Barry, a talentless, populist charlatan, rise to literary superstardom. Barry is adored by readers, celebrated by critics, and constantly in the public eye, while Tull sinks deeper into middle-a...

In Detective Inspector Denison Stories: The Imposter and the Informers' Murders, the chilling discovery of two murdered colleagues thrusts Detective Inspector Denison into the most personal and challenging case of his career. With scant clues and a list of suspects that keeps growing, Denison and his dedicated team must navigate a maze of secrets and deceit. Every lead, every hunch, and every decision becomes critical as they race against time to unravel the mystery. But as they delve deep...

Liam O’Flaherty was born on the 28th August 28, 1896, in Gort na gCapall on Inishmore, Aran Islands), County Galway, Ireland.He grew up in an Irish-speaking community, which would deeply influence his lyrical writing style.After serving in World War I, he travelled the world as a sailor before fully dedicating himself to literature.O'Flaherty became a leading figure of the Irish Literary Renaissance. He co-founded the Communist Party of Ireland, and his fiction ofte...

A New York Times Bestseller. "If you think cybercrime and potential worldwide banking meltdown is a fiction, read this sensational thriller."—Bob Woodward, PoliticoGraham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Like th...

The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles them? what sort of information do they provide?Recent high profile cases have drawn attention to the use of informers, there has been a growing debate about the subject, and many feel that...

The Intelligencers SeriesDagrun’s Trait, which allows her to discover secrets, serves her well as an undercover agent of the Intelligencers, the investigative organization of the Fair Seas Treaty Alliance. But when she uncovers a plot threatening the safety of the Fair Seas and its people, Dagrun will have to partner with those determined to keep their secrets from her, if the Fair Seas Alliance is to be saved.The first three books in the Intelligencers ser...

Joseph Conrad was a British author who is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers in English literature. Conrad's style influenced many of the great authors that followed him. This edition of The Informer includes a table of contents.

Set in 1920s Dublin in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, the novel centers on "Gypo" Nolan. Having disclosed the whereabouts of his friend Frankie McPhillip to the police for a reward, Gypo finds himself hunted by his revolutionary comrades for this betrayal...

The classic, gritty, and tragic tale of desperation and betrayal in Ireland that inspired John Ford's Academy Award–winning film.Dublin, 1920s. In the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, strong but simpleminded Gypo Nolan is at the end of his rope. Desperate to escape to America with his girlfriend, all he needs is money. Meanwhile, his friend and former comrade Frankie McPhillip is a dedicated member of the IRA—and wanted by the police for murder.Wh...

This is the sequel to 'Earth On the Edge of Forever', and relates the behind the scenes events of the Army and Defense Intelligence Agency in the Pacific, along with more of the World Intelligence Empire, on through the events of war and espionage, including Iranian and other nuclear concerns, unto the climatic measures that eventually have to be taken against the culmination of global warming. A smooth mix of wisdom, meaning, adventure, drama, humor, intelligence operations, and vision, w...