The Expendable Man

Author : Dorothy B. Hughes
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175093
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendable Man written by Dorothy B. Hughes and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.

Author : Peter G. Pollak
Publisher : Peter G. Pollak
ISBN 13 : 0615434746
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendable Man written by Peter G. Pollak and published by Peter G. Pollak. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling to find a semblance of happiness within the confines of her cell, Abby can't help but wonder, what will she do when--and if--she ever gets out?

Author : Don Chivers
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160976353X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendable Man written by Don Chivers and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the cold war with the Soviet Union, an influential American in military intelligence rewarded Ian McGregor for saving his daughters. McGregor was enrolled in an exhausting training program to exploit his many attributes, and to further his benefactor's career to the status of "general." The Expendable Man is a taut thriller loaded with spies and political intrigue. Old hardliners in the Kremlin formed a clandestine group to oppose Gorbachev's politics as being premature. To prove their point, they schemed with a drug cartel and other criminal gangs to undermine the American economy and make President Reagan's idea of laying a protective canopy over America look like a ridiculous boast. McGregor frustrated their plans in the past, before becoming an agent for an elite organization named C.A.T. (Countries against Terrorism). He changed his name, occupation, and location to marry the woman he loved, only to be tracked by two killers intent on obeying a long-standing order to assassinate him. McGregor is forced to revert to his old identity and becomes an even more formidable adversary to settle scores with the mafia and to unmask a dangerous terrorist. Will he become The Expendable Man?

Author : Dorothy Belle Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expendable Man written by Dorothy Belle Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intern, driving to a wedding in Phoenix, picks up a young female hitch-hiker who is later found murdered, drawing him into a race to find the killer, before the police can suspect him.

Author : Don Chivers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expendable Man written by Don Chivers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the cold war with the Soviet Union, an influential American in military intelligence rewarded Ian McGregor for saving his daughters. McGregor was enrolled in an exhausting training program to exploit his many attributes, and to further his benefactor's career to the status of ""general."" The Expendable Man is a taut thriller loaded with spies and political intrigue. Old hardliners in the Kremlin form a clandestine group to oppose Gorbachev's politics as being premature. To prove their point, they scheme with a drug cartel and other criminal gangs to undermine the American economy and m.

Author : John Jorgensen
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN 13 : 9780787612023
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision written by John Jorgensen and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.

Author : Eli Fritz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marketing to Hospitals written by Eli Fritz and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Edds
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814722393
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Expendable Man written by Margaret Edds and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape and murder of a 19-year-old mother of three in Culpeper, Virginia. He spent almost 18 years in Virginia prisons--9 1/2 of them on death row--for a murder he did not commit. This book reveals the relative ease with which individuals who live at society's margins can be wrongfully convicted, and the extraordinary difficulty of correcting such a wrong once it occurs. Margaret Edds makes the chilling argument that some other "expendable men" almost certainly have been less fortunate than Washington. This, she writes, is "the secret, shameful underbelly" of America's retention of capital punishment. Such wrongful executions may not happen often, but anyone who doubts that innocent people have been executed in the United States should remember the remarkable series of events necessary to save Earl Washington Jr. from such a fate.

Author : Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime & Mystery written by Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.R.F Keating, author of The Perfect Murder and mystery reviewer for teh Times of London, offers a concise commentary on the finest mystery books ever written. From Poe's tales of mystery and imagination to P.D. James's A Taste for Death, Keating delivers a highly-readable evaluation of the 100 authors and their masterpieces. This collection is a must for all devoted mystery readers. "Something to offer almost everyone. If you are only just embarking on a life of crime fiction...a reliable guide." -The New York Times "Remarkably balanced and highly entertaining." -Library Journal "Keating, himself a mystery writer of note, has compiled a truly standout survey...This is a gold mine of lively writing, sensible insights and easy-going erudition." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Ideal browsing fare." -Booklist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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