The Informers

Author : Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756440
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Informers written by Bret Easton Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a nihilistic novel set in the early eighties that portrays a chilling descent into the abyss beneath L.A.'s gorgeous surfaces. • “Skillfully accomplishes its goal of depicting a modern moral wasteland…. Arguably Ellis's best.” —The Boston Globe The basis of the major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, The Informers is a seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, in which Bret Easton Ellis, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed so unforgettably in Less Than Zero. This time is the early eighties. The characters go to the same schools and eat at the same restaurants. Their voices enfold us as seamlessly as those of DJs heard over a car radio. They have sex with the same boys and girls and buy from the same dealers. In short, they are connected in the only way people can be in that city. Dirk sees his best friend killed in a desert car wreck, then rifles through his pockets for a last joint before the ambulance comes. Cheryl, a wannabe newscaster, chides her future stepdaughter, “You're tan but you don't look happy.” Jamie is a clubland carnivore with a taste for human blood. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!

Author : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408834537
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Informers written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant debut from 'one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' (Mario Vargas Llosa) 'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez, The Informers is a thrilling new discovery' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'One of this year's outstanding books' Financial Times When Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who fled Germany for Colombia shortly before World War Two, it never occurs to him that his father will write a devastating review in a national newspaper. Why does he attack him so viciously? Do the pages of his book unwittingly hide some dangerous secret? As Gabriel sets out to discover what lies behind his father's anger, he finds himself undertaking an examination of the guilt and complicity at the heart of Colombian society, as one treacherous act perpetrated in those dark days returns with a vengeance half a century later.

Author : Roger Billingsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134032625
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Informers written by Roger Billingsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles them? what sort of information do they provide? Recent high profile cases have drawn attention to the use of informers, there has been a growing debate about the subject, and many feel that stricter controls are needed - but how is this to be achieved without undermining the effectiveness of the system? This is the first book of its kind on informers in Britain, providing an invaluable source of information and analysis from key authorities in the field.

Author : Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307593630
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Bedrooms written by Bret Easton Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. • "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People). Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.’s seedy side. His ex-girlfriend, Blair, is married to Trent, a bisexual philanderer and influential manager. Then there's Julian, a recovering addict, and Rip, a former dealer. Then when Clay meets a gorgeous young actress who will stop at nothing to be in his movie, his own dark past begins to shine through, and he has no choice but to dive into the recesses of his character and come to terms with his proclivity for betrayal. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!

Author : Owen Stockton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rebuke to the Informers written by Owen Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1675 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William John Fitz-Patrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Sham Squire" and the Informers of 1798 written by William John Fitz-Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. J. Fitz-Patrick
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368161296
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sham Squire; and the Informers of 1798 written by W. J. Fitz-Patrick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Author : William John Fitzpatrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'The sham squire' and the informers of 1798; with a view of their contemporaries. To which are added jottings about Ireland seventy years ago written by William John Fitzpatrick and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alison Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640123792
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A State of Secrecy written by Alison Lewis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi.

Author : Bret Easton Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756459
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rules of Attraction written by Bret Easton Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho—a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future—or even the present—who become entangled in a romantic triangle. • “An extraordinary writer.” —LA Weekly Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College and treats their sexual posturings and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion while exposing the moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Lauren changes boyfriends every time she changes majors and still pines for Victor who split for Europe months ago and she might or might not be writing anonymous love letter to ambivalent, hard-drinking Sean, a hopeless romantic who only has eyes for Lauren, even if he ends up in bed with half the campus, and Paul, Lauren's ex, forthrightly bisexual and whose passion masks a shrewd pragmatism. They waste time getting wasted, race from Thirsty Thursday Happy Hours to Dressed To Get Screwed parties to drinks at The Edge of the World or The Graveyard. The Rules of Attraction is a poignant, hilarious take on the death of romance. The basis for the major motion picture starring James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, and Kate Bosworth. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!