Ratking

Author: Michael Dibdin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571270613
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen had crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families.

Ratking

Author: Michael Dibdin
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307822516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357

Book Description
Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of psychological suspense. Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors--if he's still alive. Was Miletti truly the victim of professionals? Or might his kidnapper be someone closer to home: his preening son Daniele, with his million-lire wardrobe and his profitable drug business? His daughter, Cinzia, whose vapid beauty conceals a devastating secret? The perverse Silvio, or the eldest son Pietro, the unscrupulous fixer who manipulates the plots of others for his own ends? As Zen tries to unravel this rat's nest of family intrigue and official complicity, Michael Dibdin gives us one of his most accomplished thrillers.

The Corpse-Rat King

Author: Lee Battersby
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857662880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
Marius dos Hellespont and his apprentice, Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the corpse of the King of Scorby and Gerd is killed, Marius is mistaken for the monarch by one of the dead soldiers, is transported down to the Kingdom of the Dead. The dead need a King--the King is God's representative, and someone needs to remind God where they are. Marius is banished to the surface with one message: if he wants to recover his life he must find the dead a King. Which he fully intends to do. Just as soon as he stops running. File Under: Fantasy [ Royal Prospect | Loot | Keep Running | Living Dead ]

King Rat

Author: China Miéville
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466826029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Award-winning author China Miéville began his astounding career with King Rat—now in a new Tor Essentials edition—a mix of a young man's search for identity with a pulse-pounding story of revenge and madness. With a new introduction by Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail. Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom: a shadow called King Rat. King Rat reveals to Saul his own royal heritage, a heritage that opens a new world for him, the world below London's streets. With drum-and-bass pounding the backstreets, Saul must confront the forces that would use him, the ones that would destroy him, and those that have shaped his own bizarre identity. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Rat King

Author: Lp Hernandez
Publisher: LP Hernandez
ISBN: 9780578758152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
The Rat King is fourteen illustrated adventures exploring horror and its tributaries. Featuring stories adapted by The NoSleep Podcast, this collection will stay with you long after the final page is turned.

The Legend of the Rat King

Author: Norman Nawrocki
Publisher: Les Pages Noires
ISBN: 9782980576386
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The Legend of the Rat King is a touching and timely short story told in seven chapters of prose poetry, short fiction and songs about what happens to a prisoner on Death Row in Texas after he is executed. He meets the Angels of Death, the Devil, and others when he s given a second chance to live. It s a story of hope, compassion and human solidarity."

Drosselmeyer

Author: Paul Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737249801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
Unsure of how he escaped the prison known as Ivanov's Home for Orphaned Boys, Fritz finds himself the newest apprentice in the most powerful Wizard consortium, The Order. After uncovering clues to a decade-old murder, Fritz becomes the unwitting target of someone who wants him dead. To keep him from solving the mystery, they're willing to kill anyone-including Fritz's friends and family. Now Fritz is in a race against time to unravel the clues and unmask the murderer before the next kill. If he has any hopes of surviving, Fritz must unify his fellow group of dysfunctional apprentices and confront the most deadly enemy he's ever known. Drosselmeyer: Curse of the Rat King is book one of the action-packed Nutcracker Trilogy chronicling Drosselmeyer's rise to power and setting up the events in the Nutcracker Ballet.

The Rat King

Author:
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1604617128
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Another perfect children's bedtime book, The Rat King is a short tale of rat that learns his lesson by having his ego literally cut down a notch. Derrick Fludds illustrations are simple and effective, alternating between darkly lit passageways and interiors. This work is from the Moral Series the first series produced by Tales & Stories.com designed to teach children moral structure and create independent thinking.

The Rat King

Author: Patti Larsen
Publisher: Patti Larsen Books
ISBN: 199894820X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
Susan’s been having very bad dreams, and without Tucker there to comfort her, she’s afraid something terrible has happened. He’s been ordered to stay in Cat City and do his duty as a gatekeeper, but it feels like the council is trying to keep him from his friend. It turns out Susan’s nightmares are real, however, and when Tucker discovers Susan has been kidnapped by their enemies, he tries to rally help from the cats. But if anyone is going to save her, it’s going to have to be him! With the Rat King ready to attack and an old enemy still plotting to take over Cat City, it’s up to Susan and Tucker to save the cats from their enemy one more time. KEYWORDS: chapter book, action adventure series, kids action adventure book, action adventure books for kids, magic, magic cats, magic books for kids

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Best of Rat King

Author: Various
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Ahead of this summer’s Armageddon Game, check out the best stories of one of the Turtles’ most enigmatic foes, the Rat King! Spanning several publishers, this collection is the place to get familiar with the monarch of vermin himself!