I have asked permission to dedicate this book to you not only in memory of the hagpy evenings I have spent with you in Saigon over the last five years, but also because I have quite shamelessly borrowed the location of your flat to house one of iny characters, and your name, Phuong, for the convenience of readers because it is simple, beautiful and easy to pronounce, which is not true of all your couiftry- women’s names. You will both realise I have borrowed little else, certainly not the ...

For two decades Robert Stone made his living on the high seas. A modern-day pirate, he was a pioneer saturation oil-field diver, treasure hunter and smuggler, which brought him more money than he knew how to spend. Stone spent the last ten of his smuggling years in Africa, where he traded in illicit fuel. The murky waters of the Niger delta were his place of business as he operated in the most corrupt regime in the world, a place ruled by money and guns. Protected by the m...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the ...

The definitive collection of nonfiction—from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing—from the “legend of American letters” (Vanity Fair)Robert Stone was a singular American writer, a visionary whose award-winning novels—including Dog Soldiers, Outerbridge Reach, and Damascus Gate—earned him comparisons to literary lions ranging from Samuel Beckett to Ernest Hemingway to Graham Greene. Stone had an almost prophetic grasp of the spirit o...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST: Venture to the Wild West in this classic Western novel about a gun-slinging lawman who must restore peace to a silver mining boomtown.“A riveting Western that's also a work of literature.” —NPR“Among the finest of American novels.” —Thomas Pynchon, author of Gravity’s RainbowOakley Hall’s legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to pr...

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward.A companion book to the landmark documentary series on BBC TV.The journey from Cape Canaveral to the Moon was a tremendous achievement of human courage and ingenuity. It was also a long, deadly march, haunte...

In Fun with Problems, Robert Stone demonstrates once again that he is "one of our greatest living writers" (Los Angeles Times). The pieces in this new volume vary greatly in length—some are almost novellas, others no more than a page—but all share the signature blend of longing, violence, black humor, sex and drugs that has helped Stone illuminate the dark corners of the human soul. Entire lives are laid out with remarkable precision, in captivating prose: a scre...

We are about to experience a new spiritual dimension of glory that will unleash all the glorious treasures of heaven!Position yourself now that you may participate in this next great move of God!Webster defines a "paradigm shift" as "an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way." The church has experienced several such "shifts."Dynamic outpourings have always begun w...

This Revised edition of A Guide to Personal Investments is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of personal finance in 2023. Written against a backdrop of low interest rates, high inflation and low returns overall the information contained in the book will be particularly invaluable. The book is suitable for small investors in all markets and covers personal pensions, healthcare and education. It will prove an invaluable guide for all who are concerned to maximise returns from their i...

Encounter God at the AltarWhen we hear the word, “altar,” we often associate it with images of death and sacrifice or of surrender and yielding.Although these associations do have their place, there is a New Covenant revelation of the altar that will usher your relationship with God into new experiential dimensions.Robert Stone lays out a revelatory blueprint for you to take your intimacy with God to new, marvelous and wonderful levels.You w...

This Revised edition of A Guide To Personal Investments is a comprehensive guide to the complexities of personal finance in 2021. Written against a backdrop of low interest rates, high inflation and low returns overall the information contained in the book will be particularly invaluable. The book is suitable for small investors in all markets and also covers personal pensions, healthcare and education. It will prove an invaluable guide for all who are concerned to maximise returns from th...