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The Silent Places

By: James Patrick Hunt

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St. Louis Police Lt. George Hastings is loyal to the people under his command. When they're right, he backs them all the way. Sometimes it gets him in trouble. So after a round of butting heads with the top brass, Hastings and his team catch a lousy detail—keeping an eye on Senator Alan Preston, a political star looking to storm the national stage in the upcoming presidential elections. There's only one problem with Preston's plans. It seems that John Reese, a veteran and former CIA agent whom Preston prosecuted while a U.S. Attorney, has escaped from prison and may be looking to settle the score. Preston won't reveal any details. All he'll say is that Reese is a traitor who should've been executed a long time ago. But as Hastings guards the senator, he uncovers a much different story about Reese, one that isn't as cut-and-dried as Preston would like everyone to believe, one that would give a man like Reese plenty of reason to want revenge at any cost. As Hastings races to stop Reese, he quickly finds that he's not the only one hunting this most dangerous prey and that Reese isn't the only one caught in the crosshairs of politicians and professional killers in The Silent Places, another pulse-pounding read from James Patrick Hunt.

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Minotaur Books

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1429927690

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9781429927697

Goodbye Sister Disco

By: James Patrick Hunt

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Goodbye Sister Disco

By: James Patrick Hunt

Lieutenant George Hastings, a cool-headed, quick-thinking police detective, leapt to the forefront of the St. Louis Police Department when two beat cops were gunned down, and he led the joint FBI/police taskforce that caught the killer. Now he is back at work with the FBI on a new case: Cordelia Penmark, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, has been kidnapped and her boyfriend callously executed outside of a posh holiday party for his law firm. The murder was clearly a message—the kidnappers are willing to take this as far as they have to—and the target and the ransom demand indicate that the crime is politically motivated. But the investigators are stumped. Wary because of bruised egos on his team and bad blood among members of the young woman's family, and suspicious of the kidnappers' intentions, Hastings knows that there's more than simple politics in play as the kidnappers pull him and the girl's father into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Slick, sharp, and authentic, Goodbye Sister Disco, the sequel to the acclaimed novel The Betrayers, establishes James Patrick Hunt as one of crime fiction's rising stars.

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288

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466825219

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9781466825215

Clean Streets

Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism

By: Patrick J. Carr

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Clean Streets

Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism

By: Patrick J. Carr

In this profile of a typical white working-class community on Chicago's South side, Carr describes the response within the community to the shootings of two local teenage girls by gang members. He describes how these shootings led to profound changes in the community's relationship to crime prevention.

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222

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NYU Press

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0814716628

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9780814716625

The Betrayers

By: James Patrick Hunt

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The Betrayers

By: James Patrick Hunt

A simple traffic stop gone bad propels St. Louis cops Lt. George Hastings and Det. Bobby Cain into a world of trouble they hadn't bargained for in Hunt's fourth novel, an intriguing, unsentimental police procedural. Two police officers are machine-gunned when they pull over a reckless driver. One of them had been working undercover in narcotics. Could this be payback time? Seasoned veteran Hastings and the rest of the force cope with their own reactions to the loss while they investigate.

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Macmillan

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0312362765

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9780312362768

The Assailant

By: James Patrick Hunt

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The Assailant

By: James Patrick Hunt

CO-ED SLAIN. That's the call that brings St. Louis Police Lieutenant George Hastings to the downtown banks of the Mississippi River, where Reesa Woods has been strangled and dumped. The hard-charging Hastings is no stranger to murder, but he's stuck without any leads until a second body—also strangled—turns up across town and he knows he's chasing a monster. A talented doctor with an otherwise ordinary and enviable life, Raymond Sheffield has some very dark needs. His first victims are targets of opportunity, but his ambitions go far beyond that. He's formed a taste for killing, and his only interest is in getting better at it. As the violence mounts, the line between upstanding citizens and their secret desires gets thinner and thinner in this thrilling game of catch-me-if-you-can from acclaimed crime novelist James Patrick Hunt.

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333

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Minotaur Books

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142999021X

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9781429990219

Loyal Dissent

Brief Lives of Westminster School

By: Patrick Derham,Ian Donaldson,A. C. Grayling,James Campbell,Peter Cox,Nick Clegg

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Loyal Dissent

Brief Lives of Westminster School

By: Patrick Derham,Ian Donaldson,A. C. Grayling,James Campbell,Peter Cox,Nick Clegg

With origins as far back as the 14th Century, Westminster School is one of the oldest in the country with a long tradition of scholarship - and outstanding results, both in academic and public life.

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Legend Press Ltd

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178955134X

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9781789551341

Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

By: Patrick Collinson

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Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

By: Patrick Collinson

This major new study is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan movement through the eyes of its most determined and relentless opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It analyses his obsession with the perceived threat to the stability of the church and state presented by the advocates of radical presbyterian reform. The book forensically examines Bancroft's polemical tracts and archive of documents and letters, casting important new light on religious politics and culture. Focussing on the ways in which anti-Puritanism interacted with Puritanism, it also illuminates the process by which religious identities were forged in the early modern era. The final book of Patrick Collinson, the pre-eminent historian of sixteenth-century England, this is the culmination of a lifetime of seminal work on the English Reformation and its ramifications.

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251

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Cambridge University Press

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1107311047

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9781107311046

Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 5

By: Deborah Logan,Antoinette Burton,Kitty Sklar,Patrick Brantlinger

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Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 5

By: Deborah Logan,Antoinette Burton,Kitty Sklar,Patrick Brantlinger

The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism.

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426

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Routledge

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1000558894

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9781000558890

The Triumph of the Thriller

How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction

By: Patrick Anderson

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The Triumph of the Thriller

How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction

By: Patrick Anderson

There’s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence. Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post’s man on the thriller beat, calls this revolution “the triumph of the thriller,” and lists among its stars Thomas Harris, Michael Connelly, George Pelecanos, Dennis Lehane, Sue Grafton, and Elmore Leonard. In his provocative, caustic, and often hilarious survey of today’s popular fiction, Anderson shows us who the best thriller writers are–and the worst. He shows how Michael Connelly was inspired by Raymond Chandler, how George Pelecanos toiled in obscurity while he mastered his craft, how Sue Grafton created the first great woman private eye, and how Thomas Harris transformed an insane cannibal into the charming man of the world who made FBI agent Clarice Starling his lover. Anderson shows Scott Turow inventing the modern legal thriller and John Grisham translating it into a stunning series of bestsellers. He casts a cold eye on Tom Clancy’s militaristic techno-thrillers, and praises Alan Furst and Robert Littell as world-class spy novelists. He examines the pioneering role of Lawrence Sanders, the offbeat appeal of Dean Koontz, the unprecedented success of The Da Vinci Code, and the emergence of the literary thriller. Most of all, Anderson demands that the best of these novelists be given their due–not as genre writers, but as some of the most talented men and women at work in American fiction. Don’t trust the literary elites to tell you what to read, he warns–make up you own minds. The Triumph of the Thriller will convince many readers that we’ve entered an important new era in popular fiction. This book can be your guide to it.

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Random House

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1588366146

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Book's by Patrick Hastings

The Silent Places

The Silent Places

Goodbye Sister Disco

Goodbye Sister Disco

Clean Streets

Clean Streets

The Betrayers

The Betrayers

The Assailant

The Assailant

Loyal Dissent

Loyal Dissent

Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 5

Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, Vol 5

The Triumph of the Thriller

The Triumph of the Thriller

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