wyszukanych pozycji: 8
The Mexican Tree Duck
ISBN: 9781101971482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. WINNER OF THE DASHIELL HAMMETT AWARD
One night up in Montana, C.W. Sughrue sets his seedy bar s pricey jukebox in front of an oncoming freight train. When predictable results ensue, he needs to find a way to make some money and pay back the jukebox company. So even though Sughrue s officially retired from P.I. work, he picks up one small-time case involving some kidnapped fish. That fishy trail leads to a much bigger case involving a Texas politician's kidnapped wife, a valuable piece of pre-Columbian pottery, and a single mother who packs guns and stolen goods in her infant son's diaper... WINNER OF THE DASHIELL HAMMETT AWARD
One night up in Montana, C.W. Sughrue sets his seedy bar s pricey jukebox in front of an oncoming freight tra... |
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87,15 zł |
One to Count Cadence
ISBN: 9780394735597 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. Sergeant Jacob "Slag" Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by breeding, assumes command of the 721st Communication Security Deteachment, an unsoldierly crew of bored, rebellious, whoring, foul-mouthed, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities reminiscent of those in Catch-22only to be shipped clandestinely to Vietnam, Krummel's band confront their worst fears while finally losing faith in America and its myths.
Powerful, scathingly funny, and eloquent, One to Count Cadenceis a... The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. Sergeant Jacob "Slag" Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by bre...
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78,44 zł |
Dancing Bear
ISBN: 9780394725765 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run.
His friends call him Milo. No one has ever called him Bud except his father, long dead, and now Sarah Weddington, stirring painful memoires and offering him his first case since he abandoned his private practice and took a job marking time on the night shift for Haliburton Security. The case seems almost too easy, hardly worth the large fee, just to satisfy this old woman's curiosity. But things are soon exploding all over the place and... Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run.
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113,25 zł |
The Mexican Tree Duck
ISBN: 9780446677912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,11 zł |
The Last Good Kiss
ISBN: 9781784161583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes - everything from grand theft auto to criminal stupidity. All washed down with a hearty dose of whiskey and regret.
Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes - everythin...
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56,09 zł |
The Right Madness
ISBN: 9780143037309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. James Crumley is one of the most revered practitioners of post-Chandler crime fiction, praised by the likes of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly as a major influence. C. W. Sughrue is Crumley's most indelible creation. Now Sughrue is back, in a searing thrill ride of a novel that has the seen-it-all Montana private eye trying to find out which of a small-town shrink's bizarre patients has made off with some highly confidential files. Fast-paced, brutal, melancholy, and ruefully funny, The Right Madness is Crumley at his uncompromising best.
James Crumley is one of the most revered practitioners of post-Chandler crime fiction, praised by the likes of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly as a...
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95,87 zł |
The Wrong Case
ISBN: 9781784161941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office and asks him to find her missing brother. But this is far from a routine case, and whispers of a long-past crime haunt Milo's every move...
Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when ...
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54,65 zł |
Weapon of Jihad, revised edition: A political thriller about a smallpox biowarfar attack by an Iranian/Iraqi Coalition followed by a military attack a
ISBN: 9780983669005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fictional account of how the U.S. is open to annihilation by the use of surprisingly simple tactics. The book will not allow the reader to lay it down and say, "Thank God, it could never really happen." In this novel, an Iranian/Iraqi Coalition mounts an all or nothing bid to lay America low. A clever mass infection allows the Coalition to wage a war designed to bring the mightiest nation in the world to her knees. In college, Mike Thompson's microbiology studies lead him to befriend two Iranian students, Malik Aziz and Sadeq Nadim. The Ayatollah's rise to power unleashes a chain of events...
A fictional account of how the U.S. is open to annihilation by the use of surprisingly simple tactics. The book will not allow the reader to lay it do...
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68,40 zł |