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In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

By: Leslie S Klinger

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In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914

By: Leslie S Klinger

A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost anthologists. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, there were many who were in turn influenced by Poe’s genius and produced their own popular tales of supernatural literature. This collection features masterful tales of terror by authors who, by and large, are little-remembered for their writing in this genre. Even Bram Stoker, whose Dracula may be said to be the most popular horror novel of all time, is not known as a writer of short fiction. Distinguished editor Leslie S. Klinger is a world-renowned authority on those twin icons of the Victorian age, Sherlock Holmes, and Dracula. His studies into the forefathers of those giants led him to a broader fascination with writers of supernatural literature of the nineteenth century. The stories in this collection have been selected by him for their impact. Each is preceded by a brief biography of the author and an overview of his or her literary career and is annotated to explain obscure references. Read on, now, perhaps with a flickering candle or flashlight at hand . . . Stories by: Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodor Gautier, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lafcadio Hearn, M. R. James, Bram Stoker, and many others.

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Simon and Schuster

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1605988766

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9781605988764

Editing Fact and Fiction

A Concise Guide to Book Editing

By: Leslie T. Sharpe,Irene Gunther

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Editing Fact and Fiction

A Concise Guide to Book Editing

By: Leslie T. Sharpe,Irene Gunther

Writing in a lively, informal style, two editors with extensive experience in a wide variety of fields--fiction and nonfiction, trade and reference, academic and commercial publishing--explain what editors in different jobs really do in this concise practical guide.

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252

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Cambridge University Press

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0521456932

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9780521456937

Las Vegas Girl

By: Leslie Wolfe

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Las Vegas Girl

By: Leslie Wolfe

Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite: Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in United States. In the middle of city with 2 million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they¿re hunting for a killer. The crime: audaciousIn the middle of a glamorous Las Vegas hotel, in front of hundreds of witnesses and under the lenses of countless video surveillance cameras, a young girl is brutally murdered. What promises to be a quick and easy investigation soon becomes a nightmare. The most recorded crime in Vegas is missing one key protagonist, the killer.The forensics: stupefyingA crime-scene fingerprint unleashes dozens of unsettling questions instead of providing answers. Was this a murder for hire? In the politically-charged case, the scenario seems plausible; the victim¿s secret life could¿ve been the obstacle in an ambitious politician¿s path. As the investigation unspools the well-concealed secrets surrounding the victim¿s life, Baxter and Holt attract the attention of someone desperate to keep history¿s deadly secrets buried.The truth: shockingA testimony from beyond the grave turns into a death warrant for the two unrelenting detectives. While they expose a connection with the victim¿s distant past that could hold the key to catching her killer, they must learn to rely on each other to survive. Two mavericks don¿t make a team. Baxter and Holt trust each other with their lives, only not with their darkest secrets.

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Baxter & Holt

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1945302224

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9781945302220

Love and Death in the American Novel

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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Love and Death in the American Novel

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564781631

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9781564781635

Cormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn

By: Leslie Harper Worthington

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Cormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn

By: Leslie Harper Worthington

Mark Twain once wrote, "We are nothing but echoes." Despite this pronouncement, Twain's voice continues to reverberate in the 21st century. Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn helped define modern American literature, creating The Huck Finn Tradition in contemporary writing. This volume discusses the intertextual connections between Twain's iconic novel and eight works by celebrated American author Cormac McCarthy, including Suttree, The Orchard Keeper, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. By chronicling the diverse scholarly comparisons between Twain and McCarthy and exploring the echoes of Twain and Huck Finn in McCarthy's writing, this study reveals how McCarthy has not only absorbed Twain's tradition, but transformed it, with consequences that surpass the work of other Twain heirs.

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McFarland

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0786490667

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9780786490660

I Could Not Call Her Mother

The Stepmother in American Popular Culture, 1750–1960

By: Leslie J. Lindenauer

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I Could Not Call Her Mother

The Stepmother in American Popular Culture, 1750–1960

By: Leslie J. Lindenauer

Stories of the stepmother, the substitute mother, or the “other mother” have infused popular culture for centuries and continue to do so today. She plays a substantial role in our collective imagination, whether we are a part of a step family or not. Despite the fact that the stepmother remains a prevalent figure, both in popular culture and reality, scholars have largely avoided addressing this fraught figure. I Could Not Call Her Mother explores representations of the stepmother in American popular culture from the colonial period to 1960. The archetypal stepmother appears from nineteenth-century romance novels and advice literature to 1930s pulp fiction and film noir. Leslie J. Lindenauer argues that when considered in her historic context, the stepmother serves as a bellwether for changing constructions of motherhood and family. She examines popular culture's role in shaping and reflecting an increasingly normative middle class definition of the ideal mother and family, which by the 1920s became the dominant construct. Lindenauer adds to the rich and growing literature on the history of motherhood. It echoes and is informed by the scholarship that has defined ideal motherhood as a moving target, historically constructed. In so doing, it illuminates the relationship between ideal motherhood and ideal womanhood.

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Lexington Books

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0739166824

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9780739166826

Studies of a Biographer

By: Sir Leslie Stephen

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Studies of a Biographer

By: Sir Leslie Stephen

If that was a fair judgment, what are we to say to the modern work, which includes thousands of names too obscure for mention in its predecessor? When Mr. Lee speaks of the 'commemorative instinct' as justifying his undertaking, the enemy replies that a very small minority of the names deserve commemoration. To appeal to instinct is to repudiate reason and to justify monomania. Admitting, as we all admit, the importance of keeping alive the leading names in history, what is the use of this long procession of the hopelessly insignificant? Why repeat the familiar formula about the man who was born on such a day, was 'educated at the grammar school of his native town,' graduated in such a year, became fellow of his college, took a living, married, published a volume of sermons which nobody has read for a century or two, and has been during all that time in his churchyard? Can he not be left in peace, side by side with the 'rude forefathers of the hamlet,' who are content to lie beneath their quiet mounds of grass? Is it not almost a mockery to persist in keeping up some faint and flickering image of him aboveground? There is often some good reading to be found in country churchyards; but, on the whole, if one had to choose, one would perhaps rather have the good old timber crosspiece, with 'afflictions sore long time he bore,' than the ambitious monuments where History and its attendant cherubs are eternally poring over the list of the squire's virtues and honours. Why struggle against the inevitable? Better oblivion than a permanent admission that you were thoroughly and hopelessly commonplace. I confess that I sometimes thought as much when I was toiling on my old treadmill, now Mr. Lee's. Much of the work to be done was uninteresting, if not absolutely repulsive. I was often inclined to sympathise with the worthy Simon Browne, a Nonconformist divine of the last century. Poor Browne had received a terrible shock. Some accounts say that he had lost his wife and only son; others that he had 'accidentally strangled a highwayman,'—not, one would think, so painful a catastrophe. Anyhow, his mind became affected; he fancied that his 'spiritual substance' had been annihilated; he was a mere empty shell, a body without a soul; and, under these circumstances, as he tells us, he took to an employment which did not require a soul: he became a dictionary-maker. Still, we should, as he piously adds, 'thank God for everything, and therefore for dictionary-makers.' Though Browne's dictionary was not of the biographical kind, the remark seemed to be painfully applicable. Browne was only giving in other words the pith of Carlyle's constant lamentations when struggling amidst the vast dust-heaps accumulated by Dryasdust and his fellows. Could any good come of these painful toilings among the historical 'kitchen middens'? If here and there you disinter some precious coin, does the rare success repay the endless sifting of the gigantic mounds of shot rubbish? And yet, by degrees, I came to think that there was really a justification for toils not of the most attractive kind.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465608230

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9781465608239

Irrepressible

The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford

By: Leslie Brody

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Irrepressible

The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford

By: Leslie Brody

From the author of Red Star Sister “An excellent biography. Brody has made the world a better place by telling [Mitford’s] saga so skillfully” (San Francisco Chronicle). Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe Jessica Mitford: subversive, mischief–maker, muckraker. J.K. Rowling calls her her “most influential writer.” Those who knew her best simply called her Decca. Born into one of Britain’s most famous aristocratic families, she eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew as a teenager. Their marriage severed ties with her privilege, a rupture exacerbated by the life she lead for seventy–eight years. After arriving in the United States in 1939, Decca became one of the New Deal’s most notorious bureaucrats. For her the personal was political, especially as a civil rights activist and journalist. She coined the term frenemies, and as a member of the American Communist Party, she made several, though not among the Cold War witch hunters. When she left the Communist Party in 1958 after fifteen years, she promised to be subversive whenever the opportunity arose. True to her word, late in life she hit her stride as a writer, publishing nine books before her death in 1996. Yoked to every important event for nearly all of the twentieth century, Decca not only was defined by the history she witnessed, but by bearing witness, helped to define that history. “Brisk, engaging.” —Wall Street Journal “A valuable retelling of a provocative life.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Catapult

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158243767X

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9781582437675

Halliwell's Film Guide

By: Leslie Halliwell

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Halliwell's Film Guide

By: Leslie Halliwell

For movie fans, trivia buffs, and film students, here is the most popular and matchless film reference boasting over 17,000 entries, including 1,000 of the latest releases. Features cast members, writers, directors, producers; plot synopses and critical evaluations, including extensive coverage of foreign films; quotes from contemporary reviewers; alternate titles; Academy Award winners and nominations; and more.

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0062720325

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The Girl from Silent Lake: A Totally Gripping and Heart-pounding Crime Thriller

By: Leslie Wolfe

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The Girl from Silent Lake: A Totally Gripping and Heart-pounding Crime Thriller

By: Leslie Wolfe

Please, not in front of my daughter," she pleaded. "She's just a little girl." He leaned closer, so close she felt his heated breath on her face. The blue jays that had been filling the valley with their chirping fell silent all at once when the woman's cry ripped through the clear mountain air... Detective Kay Sharp vowed she'd never return to her childhood home. On the night of her thirteenth birthday her broken family was shattered beyond repair, and leaving was the only option. Unable to fix her own past, she's been an FBI profiler for over a decade, desperate to save others. But now Kay's back and only she can solve the crime that has rocked the tight-knit community of Mount Chester to its core. A dead woman has been found by Silent Lake under the dew-covered Fall leaves, her hair braided and her body wrapped in a blanket. This small town may be a stranger to murder, but Kay recognizes the signs of a serial killer. She's certain that the ritualistic nature of the scene means it's just a matter of time until he strikes again--unless she catches him first. As yellow do-not-cross tape flaps in the biting wind, another woman is reported missing. Kay leads a frenzied search for out-of-towner Alison Nolan and when she locates her car, Kay's blood turns to ice as she shines her flashlight on the backseat and sees a teddy bear. Alison's six-year-old little girl, Hazel, has vanished too. Kay knows the missing-person investigation could turn into a murder case at any second. But as she hunts for the culprit, her own past closes in on her. Can she find the killer before it's too late? And will the secret she thought she'd buried stay that way? A totally gripping and utterly addictive new crime thriller series for readers who love Lisa Regan, Robert Dugoni and Kendra Elliot. The Girl From Silent Lake gives "unputdownable" a whole new meaning! Readers totally love Leslie Wolfe: "Wow! I am blown away by just how gripping and intense this read was. I am new to Wolfe's writing, and I can guarantee I will be reading every word written by Leslie from now on!" Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Oh my god!!... I cannot express the thrill I felt reading this book. Phenomenal!!... And those killers... Dang... No comment!!" Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wow, gripping from start to finish. I just had to finish it in one day." Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Detective Kay Sharp

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183888985X

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9781838889852

Halliwell's Filmgoer's & Video Viewer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

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Halliwell's Filmgoer's & Video Viewer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

A must for movie fans and trivia buffs alike, this famed film guide contains a wealth of information and is fully updated to include the latest stars. The more than 10,000 alphabetically arranged entries provide complete details on each film, including award-winners and nominees, personal data on actors and directors, notes from critics, and more.

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0062733389

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9780062733382

Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

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Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

By: Leslie Halliwell

The most popular, authoritative, and complete reference book on film for movie and video fans--updated and revised to include the latest major films, actors, directors, writers, and everyone else of importance in the movie industry. More comprehensive than any other film encyclopedia. "A knockout compilation".--Chicago Tribune. 100 photographs.

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0062732390

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9780062732392

Executive

By: Leslie Wolfe

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Executive

By: Leslie Wolfe

POLITICAL TECHNOTHRILLERSee video book trailer here: http://bit.ly/ExecutiveVideoA friendly fire incident in Afghanistan takes a serious toll.A drone, out of control, brings death and wreaks havoc on a Florida highway.An apparently successful corporation comes under scrutiny.A memorable incursion behind corporate closed doors, led by an up-and-coming executive on a mission to find the truth about the lives lost to the very technology that was mandated to protect them.Our skies aren't safe anymore. Military Aviation has a new dimension.A thought-provoking page turner, Executive sizzles with plausible scenarios, conveyed in technical and business terminology at an unrelenting pace.Exploring the controversial territory of toxic leadership and its long term consequences, Executive delivers an insightful analysis spiced with cutting-edge technology and science, in an exciting, suspenseful, masterful political technothriller.Fans of Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, James Bond, and Jack Reacher will love Alex Hoffmann. Acclaim for Leslie Wolfe-- ?Leslie Wolfe weaves a wonderful story of espionage, current technology, warfare.' - Lucas McWilliams -- ?Leslie Wolfe is proving that indeed women can equal if not surpass the established norm of espionage techno-thrillers.' - Grady Harp-- ?Wolfe keeps readers turning the pages...' - Kirkus Reviews-- ?Leslie Wolfe has the talent that is comparable to the likes of a Tom Clancy or a Michael Crichton, or even James Patterson.' - Dennis Waller What Readers Say About Alex Hoffman Series Book One, Executive-- ?Verdict: A phenomenal novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat.' -- ?What an amazing book!? -- ?Two thumbs way, WAY up.' -- ?Better than Clancy and Baldacci!? -- ?Executive reads like a movie--like one of those sleek Ridley Scott films that run at train-wreck speed.' -- ?Leslie Wolfe has made the list - in fact, she has topped the list!? -- ?Executive was an intelligent, witty, thought-provoking and fast-paced novel that kept me on the edge of my seat.' -- ?What a treat! Fascinating peak into the world of drones and their lethal capabilities. A tour de force into brilliant research, with a dash of human frailties.

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1945302003

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9781945302008

Taker of Lives

By: Leslie Wolfe

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Taker of Lives

By: Leslie Wolfe

FBI Special Agent Tess Winnett searches for answers relentessly. With each step, each new finding, she discovers unsettling facts leading to a single possible conclusion. Dawn Girl is not the only victim. Her killer has killed before. So has the textbook definition of a serial killer."--Page 4 of cover

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1945302666

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9781945302664

Casino Girl

By: Leslie Wolfe

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Casino Girl

By: Leslie Wolfe

She seemed peaceful, as if in her last moments her young body hadn't agonized, desperately trying to live, to survive. Her lips were parted slightly as if she were breathing gently while dreaming of something only she knew. Whatever her secret, she'd taken it with her. "Simply love Leslie Wolfe! The Baxter-Holt series is one of the best in the genre! This was a great story that kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Cannot wait until the next one, Las Vegas Crime, coming in November. Keep writing them, Leslie!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The girl When a beautiful young girl is murdered in the high-roller pleasure pit of the exclusive Scala Casino, it doesn't take long for the news to leak out amongst the glamourous and wealthy clientele. Before she had met her grisly end, Crystal had been seen boarding an unmarked helicopter for a late-night flight. Where had she been going? The money The stakes are always high at the roulette table, but for some they are higher than others. Among the players a stone-cold killer watches, waits, and then kills without leaving a single trace of evidence. Rien ne va plus but death. The game The name of the game is murder, and it doesn't stop with Crystal's. Anyone who might threaten to reveal the assassin's identity will soon find that out. In a high stakes game, where anything goes, anyone who makes that mistake could be next on a killer's list. Because in Las Vegas, secrets can kill. Two mavericks make an intriguing team. Baxter and Holt trust each other with their lives, only not with their darkest secrets. Fans of James Patterson, David Baldacci, Lee Child, and Robert Dugoni will be engrossed in this riveting, entertaining police procedural that will keep you reading well into the early morning hours. Praise for Casino Girl "Outstanding! A fantastic murder mystery, coupled with a brilliant portrayal of a complicated relationship between law enforcement partners." "Masterfully written and loved the humor plus the tension between Holt and Baxter. Ready for the next one!" "Excellent, Excellent book you will enjoy it. As a retired LEO trust me a great read, almost real!" "Casino Girl, & Las Vegas Girl, are terrific! I can't wait to read the third book, Las Vegas Crime" "Another great book by Leslie Wolfe. She's one of the best. Right up there with James Patterson and Michael Connelly." "A fantastic murder mystery... Her best work yet!" "Another enthralling and entertaining thriller written by an accomplished author who takes you on a twisted ride that can branch out in different directions at the drop of a hat." "Exceptional story line! Great characters! I loved this story and can't wait for the next one!" What Readers and Reviewers Are Saying About Leslie Wolfe "Wow, what a difference! Author Leslie Wolfe grabs you and pulls you in almost immediately and doesn't let go." "I love all of Leslie Wolfe books!!" "Wolfe is a master storyteller, and this is a compelling tale with flawed protagonists." "Author Leslie Wolfe grabs you and pulls you in almost immediately and doesn't let go.

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Baxter & Holt

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1945302674

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9781945302671

Operation Sunset

By: Leslie Wolfe

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Operation Sunset

By: Leslie Wolfe

NUCLEAR TERRORISM THRILLERPrivate investigator Alex Hoffmann has a clear mission: to identify and eliminate the deadliest terrorist mastermind in history. She doesn't know his name. She doesn't know what he looks like. She only knows he's Russian. The moment she learns more, it's already too late. The timers are counting down. This Russian's plan doesn't target a building, a person, or a city. His plan is targeting the future of the United States and its entire people, for decades to come. She calls it the inconceivable scenario.Will she be able to stop him in time? Terrorism has a new dimension. We're under an unprecedented attack. There's nowhere to run.Alex Hoffmann returns as the heroine of Operation Sunset. Putting her life on the line and risking it all to hunt down the man who is threatening everything she cares about, Alex is uncompromising and resourceful, throwing herself in the battle of her life, and taking readers on a breathtaking roller coaster ride in this gripping, engrossing nuclear terrorism thriller.Fans of Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, James Bond, and Jack Reacher will love Alex Hoffmann.

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1945302054

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Book's by Leslie Wolfe (Fiction writer)

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe

Editing Fact and Fiction

Editing Fact and Fiction

Las Vegas Girl

Las Vegas Girl

Love and Death in the American Novel

Love and Death in the American Novel

Cormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn

Cormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn

I Could Not Call Her Mother

I Could Not Call Her Mother

Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer

Irrepressible

Irrepressible

Halliwell's Film Guide

Halliwell's Film Guide

The Girl from Silent Lake: A Totally Gripping and Heart-pounding Crime Thriller

The Girl from Silent Lake: A Totally Gripping and Heart-pounding Crime Thriller

Halliwell's Filmgoer's & Video Viewer's Companion

Halliwell's Filmgoer's & Video Viewer's Companion

Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion

Executive

Executive

Taker of Lives

Taker of Lives

Casino Girl

Casino Girl

Operation Sunset

Operation Sunset

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