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Terrible Humans

The World's Most Corrupt Super-Villains And The Fight to Bring Them Down

By: Patrick Alley

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Terrible Humans

The World's Most Corrupt Super-Villains And The Fight to Bring Them Down

By: Patrick Alley

A small number of people, motivated by an insatiable greed for power and wealth, and backed by a pinstripe army of enablers (and sometimes real armies too), have driven the world to the brink of destruction. They are the super-villains of corruption and war, some with a power greater than nation state and the capacity to derail the world order. Propping up their opulent lifestyles is a mess of crime, violence and deception on a monumental scale. But there is a fightback: small but fearless groups of brilliant undercover sleuths closing in on them, one step at a time. In Terrible Humans, Patrick Alley, co-founder of Global Witness and the author of Very Bad People, introduces us to some of the world's worst warlords, grifters and kleptocrats who can be found everywhere from presidential palaces to the board rooms of some of the world's best known companies. Pitted against them, the book also follows the people unravelling the deals, tracking the money and going undercover at great risk. From the oligarch charged with ordering the killing of an investigative journalist to the mercenary army seizing the natural resources of an entire African country, this is a whirlwind tour of the dark underbelly of the world's super powerful and wickedly wealthy, and the daring investigators dragging them into the light.

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Monoray

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1800962002

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Very Bad People

The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption

By: Patrick Alley

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Very Bad People

The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption

By: Patrick Alley

PATRICK ALLEY'S NEW BOOK TERRIBLE HUMANS IS AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW. ***** 'Reads like a John le Carré novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue 'Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn't all true.' - Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Global Witness are fearless.' - Gordon Roddick, Campaigner and Co-Founder of the Body Shop 'Part true crime tale, part investigative procedural, this is the account of the brilliant and necessary superheroes of Global Witness, whose superpower is the truth.' - Edward Zwick, Director of Blood Diamond 'Very Bad People reads like a non-stop high-speed chase as our fighters against corruption hunt down a litany of criminals and con-men, some on the fringes of our society, some embedded high up within it. It's a great story and an important one.' - David Farr, Screenwriter, The Night Manager 'The story told in this book of three youthful idealists who go from eating cold baked beans in a drafty London flat to the Thai-Cambodian border where they posed as traders in illegally felled timber is simply riveting. Don't miss it.' - Misha Glenny, author of McMafia 'Alley has produced a clear-eyed account of a world poisoned by dark money, and a welcome reminder that resistance is possible. As it turns out, his book is even more timely than he could have hoped.' - Irish Times 'This book is inspirational. It shows how young people with sufficient passion and intelligence have the capacity to go after some of the most powerful governments and corporations and shame, humiliate and just push governments to support important reforms that can make this a more decent world.' - Frank Vogl, Co-Founder of Transparency International Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. Blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside track on a breath-taking catalogue of modern super-crimes - and the 'shadow network' that enables them. VERY BAD PEOPLE is about following the money, going undercover in the world's most dangerous places, and bringing down the people behind the crimes. Case by case we see maverick investigators pitched against warlords, grifters and super-villains who bear every resemblance to The Night Manager's Richard Roper. One dictator's son spent $700 million in just four years on his luxury lifestyle. As they unravel crooked deals of labyrinthine complexity, the team encounter well-known corporations whose operations are no less criminal than the Mafia. This network of lawyers, bankers and real estate agents help park dirty money in London, New York, or in offshore accounts, safe from prying eyes. Patrick Alley's book is a brilliant, authoritative and fearless investigation into the darkest workings of our world - and an inspiration to all of us who want to fight back.

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Monoray

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1913183513

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Dizary - a Hero's Mark

By: Patrick Berkhof

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Dizary - a Hero's Mark

By: Patrick Berkhof

Ileas and Arak are two simple street urchins who one day mischievously masquerade as peacekeepers. This doesn’t go unpunished and both are branded on their right hand with the notorious magical punitive sign, the Maark. Unless they perform a good deed at the behest of the Courage and Deed peace guild they will die from pain in seven days’ time. What doesn’t help is that they live in the labyrinthine world of Dizary. If you’re in a hurry, the last thing you need is a tangle of streets, countless bridges, dark alleyways – and dangerous people. When the boys arrive at the mysterious Courage and Deed headquarters, they happen to meet with four more quite diverse characters with the same Maark. Ileas and Arak have never in their lives fought with possessed souls or monsters and the prospect of their impending death puts a strain on their friendship. Carrying out their quest proves impossible without working as a team.

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Project Dizary

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9082566842

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9789082566840

Robert Ludlum's The Lazarus Vendetta

A Covert-One Novel

By: Robert Ludlum,Patrick Larkin

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Robert Ludlum's The Lazarus Vendetta

A Covert-One Novel

By: Robert Ludlum,Patrick Larkin

For the past three decades Robert Ludlum's bestselling novels have been enjoyed by hundreds of millions of readers worldwide and have set the standard against which all other thrillers are measured. His Covert-One series has been among his most beloved creations and now comes the latest thrilling novel in the series. The Lazarus Movement, the dominant force in the eco-conscious, "anti-technology" protest movement, has sent rumblings down the halls of the world's intelligence agencies. Led by a mysterious, never-seen figure known only as Lazarus, this increasingly prominent group is believed by some to be preparing a bold strike. When an attack on a nano-technology research facility leaves thousands dead--- protestors and scientists alike---from what appears to be a cloud of inadvertently released but gruesomely deadly nanobots, pandemonium reigns. Lt. Col. Jon Smith is activated by Covert-One to find and uncover the truth about Lazarus where all others have failed. As Smith slowly uncovers the deadly underpinnings of the group, he soon learns that the Lazarus Movement is only the very tip of the iceberg in a deadly scheme that threatens billions of lives and will forever change the nature of the world itself.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1429906774

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9781429906777

The Follower

By: Patrick Quentin

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The Follower

By: Patrick Quentin

From the Edgar Award–winning author of the Peter Duluth Mysteries comes an electrifying thriller of one man’s desperate search for his missing wife. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: “Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.” Returning from Venezuela, mining engineer Mark Liddon is hoping to surprise his wife as much as she surprised him by agreeing to marry him. After all, he came up the rough way in back rooms and boxing rings, while Ellie is a social scion from a family of money and influence. But when Mark crosses the doorstep, Ellie is nowhere to be found and her ex-boyfriend is in their home, shot dead. Using instincts honed from a lifetime of hard knocks, Mark launches himself into an investigation of his own to find Ellie. But the further he goes in his search, the more people try to slow him down. And now they’re trying to kill him . . .

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Open Road Media

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1504051440

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9781504051446

The Land of Mist and Mountains

By: Patrick James Doyle

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The Land of Mist and Mountains

By: Patrick James Doyle

The Land of Mist and Mountains by Patrick James Doyle __________________________________

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Page Publishing Inc

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1681395428

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9781681395425

The Loop

The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

By: Patrick T. Reardon

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The Loop

The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

By: Patrick T. Reardon

The structure that anchors Chicago Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago’s elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city’s economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. This unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop’s impact on the city’s development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago’s downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago’s downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago’s elevated Loop.

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SIU Press

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0809338114

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9780809338115

Practical Forensic Digital Imaging

Applications and Techniques

By: Patrick Jones

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Practical Forensic Digital Imaging

Applications and Techniques

By: Patrick Jones

Well-documented scenes can prove to be invaluable pieces of evidence at trial, and the ability to take compelling photographs is a critical skill for forensic scientists and investigators. Practical Forensic Digital Imaging: Applications and Techniques is an up-to-date and thorough treatment of digital imaging in the forensic sciences. Balancing pr

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1040081614

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9781040081617

Lost Souls

A Thriller

By: Seth Patrick

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Lost Souls

A Thriller

By: Seth Patrick

The second in Seth Patrick's genre-bending trilogy, Lost Souls delivers chilling twists as a forensic detective revives the dead to exhume a world changing conspiracy. JONAH MILLER, REVIVER. Able to wake the recently dead for testimony that is accepted in courts worldwide, the use of revivers has become a routine part of police investigation. Despite his troubled past, Jonah Miller is one of the best. But while reviving the victim of a brutal murder, he encounters a terrifying presence. Something is watching. Waiting. When long-hidden secrets are uncovered, Jonah is forced to come to a chilling conclusion: An ancient evil is coming - and Jonah may be all that stands in its way...

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Macmillan

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1250021723

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9781250021724

Ruin's Wake

By: Patrick Edwards

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Ruin's Wake

By: Patrick Edwards

A moving and powerful science fiction novel of love, revenge and identity in a totalitarian world. A moving and powerful science fiction novel with themes of love, revenge, and identity. A story about humanity, and the universal search to find salvation in the face of insurmountable odds. An old soldier in exile embarks on a desperate journey to find his dying son. A young woman trapped in an abusive marriage with a government official finds hope in an illicit love. A female scientist uncovers a mysterious technology that reveals that her world is more fragile than she believed. Ruin's Wake imagines a world ruled by a totalitarian government, where history has been erased and individual identity is replaced by the machinations of the state. As the characters try to save what they hold most dear - in one case a dying son, in the other secret love - their fates converge to a shared destiny.

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1785658808

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Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor

An Irish Country Novel

By: Patrick Taylor

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Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor

An Irish Country Novel

By: Patrick Taylor

Fans of Taylor's bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colorful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his once long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky shenanigans at the local dog races. The everyday complications of village life are very different from the challenges Fingal faced nearly thirty years earlier, when fresh out of medical school, the young Dr. O'Reilly accepts a post at the Aungier Street Dispensary, tending to the impoverished denizens of Dublin's tenement slums. Yet even as he tries to make a difference, Fingal's tireless devotion to his patients may cost him his own true love.... Shifting back and forth between the present and the past, Patrick Taylor's captivating Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor, brings to life both the green young man O'Reilly once was and the canny village doctor readers have come to know and admire.

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Macmillan

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0765335247

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9780765335241

Thick As Thieves

A Novel

By: Patrick Quinn

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Thick As Thieves

A Novel

By: Patrick Quinn

The sensational debut of a crime novelist who will remind readers of how thrilling it was to read Carl Hiassen, Robert B. Parker, or Elmore Leonard for the first time. This novel features Mackin, a rogue and a professional thief who survives by being the very best--and by never breaking his own rules.

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Crown

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0307815897

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9780307815897

Ask the Mad Poet

Observations From my Homeland during a Time of Convoluted Realities

By: Michael Patrick Emery

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Ask the Mad Poet

Observations From my Homeland during a Time of Convoluted Realities

By: Michael Patrick Emery

Ask the Mad Poet: Observations from My Homeland in a Time of Convoluted Realities begins with the title poem, an invitation to “Ask the Mad Poet” (what better commentator on a mad world?), and ends with “I Ask a Few Questions,” a long, surreal overview of the poet’s generation based on a dream. In between, the fifty-four other poems, written from 2007 through 2014, include history, social commentary, celebrations, and, in “Mater Dei, Mater Gaia,” advocacy for Mother Earth. These are the poems of an aging man, lived beyond his three score ten, much of it working with the dispossessed, who feels a call to witness truth to power on behalf of the earth, the least among us, and the way things really are: a cry for balance in a world where the kings are in the counting house, the peasants fight for crumbs, and Mother Gaia burns.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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145753987X

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9781457539879

Vortex

By: Larry Bond,Patrick Larkin

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Vortex

By: Larry Bond,Patrick Larkin

Set in South Africa of the early 1990s, this military thriller has fascist ultraconservative Afrikaners staging a coup and taking over the Pretoria government. The new government then re-institutes apartheid and invades bordering Namibia. A Communist counterforce led by the Cubans is mounted, as internal revolt and harsh suppression breed domestic chaos. A Boer nuclear attack on the Cubans is answered by nerve gas from the Cubans. A daring raid by US Rangers destroys the Afrikaner weapons before they can be used again, while U.S. and British ground forces restore order after much fighting and destruction. “The techno-thriller has a new ace, and his name is Larry Bond.” —Tom Clancy, Author of “Clear and Present Danger” “Military adventure on grand scale … and intricate and compelling thriller that is pure Bond in great form. Larry Bond has proven himself the master of military adventure.” —Clive Cussler, Bestselling author of “Dragon” “Techno-thriller fans rejoice! Larry Bond is good – very, very good. I started sweating on the first page.” —Stephen Coonts, Bestselling author of “Under Siege” “A gripping military scenario novel. As timely as today’s headlines.” —W.E.B Griffin, Bestselling author of “Battleground”

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Trident E-Book Distribution Services

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1475601212

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9781475601213

The South Sea Bubble and Ireland

Money, Banking and Investment, 1690-1721

By: Patrick Walsh

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The South Sea Bubble and Ireland

Money, Banking and Investment, 1690-1721

By: Patrick Walsh

In late September 1720 the South Sea bubble burst. The collapse of the South Sea Company's share price caused the first great British stock market crash, the repercussions of which were felt far beyond the City of London. Patrick Walsh's book traces for the first time the impact of the rise and fall of the South Sea bubble on the peripheries of the British state. Its primary focus is on Ireland, but Irish developments are placed within a comparative context, with special attention paid to Scotland. Drawing on an impressive array of evidence, including bank ledgers, private correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers, and contemporary literary sources, this book examines not only investment in London but also the impact of the bubble on the fate of non-metropolitan projects in the 'South Sea Year', notably the failed project for an Irish national bank. Central to the book is the lived experience of the bubble and the wider financial revolution. The stories of individual investors - their strategies, speculations, aspirations, gains, losses and misunderstandings - are employed to create a new, more personal narrative of the momentous events of 1720, showing how they impacted on the lives of the inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Patrick Walsh is Irish Research Council CARA Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: The Life of William Conolly, 1662-1729 (Boydell Press, 2010).

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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184383930X

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9781843839309

The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

By: Patrick Rothfuss

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The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

By: Patrick Rothfuss

An illustrated, 10th anniversary edition of the New York Times best-selling fantasy novel describes how the magically gifted orphan, Kvothe, brazenly attends a legendary school of magic and must live as a fugitive after the murder of a king.

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Penguin

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0756413710

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9780756413712

Stolen Car

By: Patrick Jones

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Stolen Car

By: Patrick Jones

Danielle is drawn to Reid, the quintessential "bad boy." Even though she should learn from her mother's poor taste in men, she can't seem to shake her strong feelings for him. As she gets caught up in Reid's lifestyle, Danielle turns a blind eye to his lies, and is soon in way over her head. But her BFF Ashley is determined not to let Danielle become the road kill on Reid's joy ride through life. Once she forces Dani to see through Reid's deception, they take off on a revenge-injected road trip that starts with a stolen car and ends with some harsh truths. Patrick Jones takes readers for a ride in this dynamic story about good friends, bad boys, and fast cars.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802723837

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9780802723833

Conspiracy?

By: John Michael Patrick

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Conspiracy?

By: John Michael Patrick

In 1993 St. Louis, John Peterson and Tammy Wilburn were celebrating John's new computer career and the start of a new life together until fate dealt them a new hand. In a spin of fate and circumstance the young couple is propelled through time to 1963 and provided an opportunity to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Weaving a carefully crafted plan, John is prepared to kill Lee Harvey Oswald in the Texas School Book Depository to prevent the President's assassination. But is there a second gun man? The reputed shooter behind the grassy knoll? Perhaps, John and Tammy reason, it is better not to rewrite history. Perhaps the opportunity before them is to prove the President's assassination was the result of a conspiracy. Armed with a video camera they seek evidence that Oswald did not act alone and then find themselves once again the victims of fate, and now the target of a nationwide manhunt. Captured, arrested and held responsible for the murder of the President, the Attorney General seeks Supreme Court approval to assert the death penalty. While there is strong evidence of guilt, there is compelling evidence that shows it impossible for John and Tammy to have had anything to do with the crime of the century.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1622125193

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9781622125197

Out from Edom

By: Patrick Sutton

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Out from Edom

By: Patrick Sutton

The Irredente Chronicles, in multiple volumes, derive from disparate, far-future historical sources and tell the interconnected histories of people and sentient machines at an important crossroads: where technology prohibitions clash with the universal imperative to create and propagate. Book I, Out From Edom, follows the entwined fates of a reactionary priest and an urchin boy who flee on separate trajectories from a backwater world attacked by a mysterious alien power. In their separate voyages across the technology-suppressing Irredente hegemony, each encounters strange beings crouching in the shadow of cruelest repression. What the boy and the fallen cleric separately discover, in the hegemony and beyond, will bring the dark Irredente regime face to face with all that it sought to forbid: genovariant humanity and sentient machines.

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J. Patrick Sutton

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1452401365

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SYPHON

By: Patrick Meaney,Mohsen Ashraf

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SYPHON

By: Patrick Meaney,Mohsen Ashraf

When fast-living EMT Sylas is entrusted with the power to sense and siphon pain from others, he finds a new purpose: easing the misery of those around him. But the more he uses this gift, the more he is cursed to carry the burden of others’ pain, and before long, he attracts the attention of mysterious forces who covet the power for themselves. Will Sylas continue on his noble mission, or will he fall back into his old impetuous ways? Comic book documentarian PATRICK MEANEY (Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, The Image Revolution) teams up with artist JEFF EDWARDS (G.I. Joe) in a story by MOHSEN ASHRAF for a creator-owned noir fantasy that evokes the lore of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods alongside the psychological thrills of M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable. Collects SYPHON #1-3 Select praise for SYPHON: “A rich story with an engaging protagonist.” —Major Spoilers “A brilliantly crafted story.” —GWW “Each page is a fascinating to look at and Sylas's story has a deep well of mythology and intrigue to keep any reader's attention.” —Black Nerd Problems

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Image Comics

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1534322892

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9781534322899

The Twilight of Our Dawn

By: J. Patrick Bick

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The Twilight of Our Dawn

By: J. Patrick Bick

In the year 2410, so-called clonies have become controversial issue. Originally revered as miracles of science, these test-tube humans have become feared and ostracized. True, they are useful; they are stronger than regular humans and can perform dangerous tasks that normal people could not withstand. Even so, politics is turning against them. They are considered abominations by many, and their survival is in peril. Jordan Andrews is one such clonie. A private detective and occasional bodyguard, he is hesitant when asked to hunt down one of his own. A clonie assassin has been killing politicians, police, and just about anyone else threatening the clonie population. The killer even took out two innocents, merely because they witnessed one of his vicious attacks. Jordan does not want to hunt his own kind, but he does want to stop the perpetuation of fear among humans. He makes the acquaintance of Linda St. John, who just lost her family to the assassins bloody cause. Due to his investigation, Jordan soon becomes a target, as does Linda. Together, they must avoid a powerful assassin and find a way to make him stop. But is there method behind this killers madness? Navigating government policy and science, a clonie and human must work together in a fight for survival in an unforgiving, futuristic world.

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Abbott Press

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1458207471

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9781458207470

Spider

By: Patrick McGrath

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Spider

By: Patrick McGrath

Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of horror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror.

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Vintage

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0679736301

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The Name of the Wind

By: Patrick Rothfuss

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The Name of the Wind

By: Patrick Rothfuss

In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician, the accomplished thief, the masterful musician, the dragon-slayer, the legend-hunter, the lover, the thief and the infamous assassin.

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Penguin

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0756405890

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9780756405892

Through the Shadows of Forever

By: James Patrick Krach

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Through the Shadows of Forever

By: James Patrick Krach

Through the Shadows of Forever is a supernaturally dark commentary on society, and the world in which we live. Follow one man's horrifying journey to survive in a world he chooses to live apart from. Follow another man's twisted journey through madness, as he searches for the answers to his own life forgotten. Watch as the two collide in an enlightenment of insanity. Welcome to the shadows.

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Lulu.com

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1300073942

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9781300073949

American Horror

An Anthology of Dark Fantasy

By: Joe McKinney,Kealan Patrick Burke,Lisa Morton,Maria Alexander,Joseph Nassise,Nate Kenyon,Jeremy C. Shipp

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American Horror

An Anthology of Dark Fantasy

By: Joe McKinney,Kealan Patrick Burke,Lisa Morton,Maria Alexander,Joseph Nassise,Nate Kenyon,Jeremy C. Shipp

A collection of horror stories in the tradition of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Joe Hill, featuring vampires, zombies, monsters, serial killers, and other creepy creatures of the night. Edited by introduced by bestselling author and Stoker Award finalist Scott Nicholson (The Red Church, After post-apocalyptic thriller series, and Creative Spirit). Stories by award-winning authors Joseph Nassise, Simon Wood, Maria Alexander, Nate Kenyon, Kealan Patrick Burke, Lisa Morton, Jeremy C. Shipp, and Joe McKinney. "Always surprises and always entertains." - Jonathan Maberry, Patient Zero ---- keywords: horror story collection, best horror short stories, zombie stories, dark fantasy fiction, vampire anthology, ghost stories, Jack Kilborn, Blake Crouch, Brian Keene, Bentley Little

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Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 1

By: Patrick Spedding,Paul Watt,Ed Cray,David Gregory,Derek B Scott

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Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period, Volume 1

By: Patrick Spedding,Paul Watt,Ed Cray,David Gregory,Derek B Scott

The songbooks of the 1830-40s were printed in tiny numbers, and small format so they could be hidden in a pocket, passed round or thrown away. Collectors have sought ‘these priceless chapbooks’, but only recently a collection of 49 songbooks has come to light. This collection represents almost all of the known songbooks from the period.

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Routledge

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1000748057

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Passport to Peking

A Very British Mission to Mao's China

By: Patrick Wright

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Passport to Peking

A Very British Mission to Mao's China

By: Patrick Wright

President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China. However, eighteen years previously, former prime minister Clement Attlee had also been to China to shake Chairman Mao by the hand. In the second half of 1954, scores of European delegations set off for Beijing, in response to Prime Minister Chou En-lai's invitation to 'come and see' the New China and celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Communist victory. In this delightfully eclectic book, part comedy, part travelogue, and part cultural history, Patrick Wright uncovers the story of the four British delegations that made this journey. These delegations included an amazing range of people from the political, academic, artistic, and cultural worlds of the day: Clement Attlee and his former Health Minister, Nye Bevan; dapper and self-important philosopher A. J. Ayer; the brilliant young artist-reporter Paul Hogarth; poet and novelist Rex Warner (a former Marxist who had just married a Rothschild); and the infuriatingly self-obsessed Stanley Spencer who famously lectured Chou En-lai on the merits of his hometown of Cookham, but who emerges as the unlikely hero of the story. Using a host of previously unpublished letters and diaries, Patrick Wright reconstructs their journey via the USSR to the New China, capturing the impressions - both mistaken and genuinely insightful - of the delegates as they ventured behind both the iron and the bamboo curtains. Full of comic detail of the delegates and their interactions, it is also a study of China as it has loomed in the British mind: the primitive orient of early western philosophy, a land of backwardness that was used to contrast with the progressive dynamism of Victorian Britain, as well as the more recent allure of revolutionary transformation as it appeared in the minds of twentieth century Britons.

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OUP Oxford

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019162473X

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9780191624735

The Wise Man's Fear

By: Patrick Rothfuss

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The Wise Man's Fear

By: Patrick Rothfuss

Discover book two of Patrick Rothfuss’ #1 New York Times-bestselling epic fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle. “I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda DAY TWO: THE WISE MAN’S FEAR “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins a tale told from his own point of view—a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King's Road. All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.

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Astra Publishing House

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1101486406

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9781101486405

The Gamble

By: Patrick Jones

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The Gamble

By: Patrick Jones

For years, Leung has been learning Wing Chun. This fighting art demands balance. It makes Leung find his center. So when Leung sees the boxing matches at New York's Woodrat Club, he’s shocked by the fighters' wild, sloppy styles. But he can't stop watching. Leung's Irish friend, Sean, thinks that Leung could conquer the bareknuckle boxing scene. But first, Leung's uncles, Tso and Nang, have to approve. Then Leung will have to learn to ignore jeers and hard stares—because he'll be fighting before a crowd that wants to see a Chinese immigrant lose.

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146774008X

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9781467740081

Fates Rescue

By: Grant Patrick Smith

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Fates Rescue

By: Grant Patrick Smith

With all the wonderful and strange things that go on in our world, have you ever asked yourself, Why do things happen the way they do? After all the crazy things that Ive done in my life, how is it that I am still alive? Was it coincidence that led me to meet the companion of my dreams? Or, How did I ever fall into this job? The answer is simple. Meet the Field Agents of Fates Rescue. Kyle, Tiffany, Winston, Allan, and thousands of other employees are those who are in charge of manipulating the fates of mankind. The company, Fates Rescue, is the largest corporation in the world employing those in the afterlife, that is, those of the dead who choose to work. Twenty-seven years is all it takes with the company to secure their ticket to the final destination of heaven, or that is what we are led to believe.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462835473

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9781462835478

We Were One

Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

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We Were One

Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

By: Patrick K. O'Donnell

A riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there--a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody streets, they came face-to-face with the enemy-radical insurgents high on adrenaline, fighting to a martyr's death, and suicide bombers approaching from every corner. Award-winning author and historian Patrick O'Donnell stood shoulder to shoulder with this modern band of brothers as they marched and fought through the streets of Fallujah, and he stayed with them as the casualties mounted.

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Hachette+ORM

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0306815931

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9780306815935

Champions of Circumstance

By: Patrick Stigfeldt

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Champions of Circumstance

By: Patrick Stigfeldt

Let me ask you this question: what does an exiled king, a thief with morals, a young sorcerer off on his own, a high elven wizard with secrets, an unlucky sell-sword, a somewhat clueless child, a man with gambling issues and a sewer needing cleaning have in common? The answer is: not a whole lot. But when the king is a three-meter-tall polar bear man, the thief one of the capital’s most wanted, the sorcerer unlucky, the wizard too prideful, the sell-sword cursed with the body of a snailman, the child eons old and made from rock, the gambler a blessed priest and the sewers filled with monsters, then things start getting interesting. Now five hundred years after the defeat of Molthos the Enslaver, demon emperor and thousand years tyrant of the Almira continent, civilisation has flourished, and the annual Purge Festival is just around the corner in the human capital, Kivar. Follow a group of less-than-compatible people as their chanced meeting and later enforced companionship get them caught in a deadly popularity contest in which they are forced to participate under the threat of prison. Follow our...not heroes...but champions brought together by circumstance as they battle slavers, oozes, giant insects, blood mages, living plants, nightmarish terrors and more. Follow along in this book the opening act of an epic tale, depicting the story of those who go from strangers to comrades, to friends and to champions.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1528981952

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9781528981958

Runner

By: Patrick Lee

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Runner

By: Patrick Lee

Retired Special Forces operative Sam Dryden saves the life of an 11-year-old girl with no memory of her past who possesses a dangerous skill that is highly sought by violent government forces.

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