wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Memoirs of an Errant Youth
ISBN: 9780595388301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Archibald Sinclair Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley) is an ill educated, but picaresque, street-wise youth, who sees himself as a composite character of his boyhood heroes-Robin Hood and The Saint.
Archie is an opportunist, who never passes up a chance to supplement his income. But despite his dubious schemes to provide the few pleasures available to a financially deprived young person, living through years of war and austerity, he lives by a self-developed code of conduct. He respects the aged, is charitable to the needy, generous to his friends and family, and given the right motivation... Archibald Sinclair Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley) is an ill educated, but picaresque, street-wise youth, who sees himself as a composite character ...
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49,22 |
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A Kind of Wild Justice
ISBN: 9780595431946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Gary Remington, a warrant officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps and a veteran of several wars, obtains a compassionate discharge from the Army to care for his fourteen-year-old daughter, the only surviving member of his family-victims of a hit-and-run driver. Remington determines to seek justice for the deaths of his wife and son, but soon realises that the only way this can be achieved is to dispense his own kind of wild justice-outside the law. His fateful decision leads him to take on the role of a vengeful vigilante who shows no quarter in executing his brand of justice.
Gary Remington, a warrant officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps and a veteran of several wars, obtains a compassionate discharge from the Arm...
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64,43 |
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Thwarted: Bob Carson had every reason to want a corrupt salesman dead - but does that make him a murderer?
ISBN: 9781861515230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When an investment company loses millions of its clients' money through the collapse of an African copper mining venture, there are plenty of angry investors who are out for revenge. But did one of them go so far as to murder the company's most unscrupulous salesman, Lance Rackman, the man who sold them the worthless shares? And in particular, could Rackman's killer have been Bob Carson, a retired regimental sergeant major with an unblemished record? Carson certainly had a motive. Most of the local police force see it as an open and shut case, but it seems the truth is not so simple...
When an investment company loses millions of its clients' money through the collapse of an African copper mining venture, there are plenty of angry in...
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50,88 |
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Tarnished Heroes
ISBN: 9780595407507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Group Captain Randolph Tremayne, RAF, the British Air Attache and Lieutenant Colonel Bradford Rantzen, USAF, the United States' Assistant Air Attache, both serving in their respective embassies in Bangkok, are embittered and disillusioned men. Passed over for promotion and beset by family discord and tragedy.
Both men are former heroes, but are now tarnished by their experiences or weaknesses. Tremayne is a gallant, but philandering, self-indulgent opportunist and Rantzen is a heroic, but war-wearied veteran, suffering nightmares over the time he was a prisoner of war in Korea and fears... Group Captain Randolph Tremayne, RAF, the British Air Attache and Lieutenant Colonel Bradford Rantzen, USAF, the United States' Assistant Air Attache,...
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60,63 |
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Black Hatted Cowboys: The Story of Two Men Who Take Deadly Retributive Action Against Cowboy Builders
ISBN: 9781909304680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The building and repair work carried out by dangerously incompetent and unscrupulous builders, often known as "cowboys," is widely reported in newspapers and investigations into their nefarious activities make popular and thought-provoking television documentaries. This publicity helps to warn the unwary of the misery, unjustifiable costs and even death that can result by employing unskilled building workers to carry out improvements and, often-unnecessary, repairs to their homes. The cowboy builder will always ask for "cash-up-front" before he starts to work. Later, he will ask for more...
The building and repair work carried out by dangerously incompetent and unscrupulous builders, often known as "cowboys," is widely reported in newspap...
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50,88 |
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As Long as There's Tomorrow...
ISBN: 9780595396214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) James, a 16 year-old street-wise shipping clerk and Kathleen, a 14 year-old, self-willed grammar school girl, meet in London in 1946. They fall deeply in love. But because of James' seemingly shiftless manner and pressure from members of Kathleen's family they drift apart. While James is away on National Service Kathleen meets Craig, whom she later marries, but realizes before the honeymoon is over that she can never be happy with him. James returns and he and Kathleen renew their relationship as passionate lovers. Kathleen becomes pregnant. But Craig accepts her infidelity and refuses to...
James, a 16 year-old street-wise shipping clerk and Kathleen, a 14 year-old, self-willed grammar school girl, meet in London in 1946. They fall deeply...
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83,43 |
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Settled Out of Court
ISBN: 9780595477050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Rex Baxter, a successful property developer, with a wife who despises him, but tolerates his philandering life-style for her own interests, and a young son who adores him, has a clandestine affair with an "au pair" staying with the family. While his wife and son are away he plans a weekend of sensual pleasure with the girl. On returning from shopping for their supper he finds her dead in the kitchen. He calls the police, who find all the clues they need to charge him with her rape and murder. He is tried for the offences, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Ten years into his...
Rex Baxter, a successful property developer, with a wife who despises him, but tolerates his philandering life-style for her own interests, and a youn...
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56,83 |