A gang of renegade cops invalided out of the force for minor injuries decide to take justice into their own hands. Together they fight crime in the violent world of drug trafficking in New York. This novel is based on accounts by retired New York policemen.
A gang of renegade cops invalided out of the force for minor injuries decide to take justice into their own hands. Together they fight crime in the vi...
Based on the author's encounters with some of the world's most notorious female terrorists, this book sets out to destroy what she sees as the myth and male fantasy surrounding such women - that they are either gun-toting lesbian feminists or misguided pawns. She argues that it is the deeply embedded attitude that the gentle sex is incapable of extreme cruelty that has made women such valuable assets to armed revolutionary movements, and offers an explanation of why some of the most vicious acts of terrorism have been committed by women.
Based on the author's encounters with some of the world's most notorious female terrorists, this book sets out to destroy what she sees as the myth an...
Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra's exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience. It's late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by...
Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children w...
