Viva La Madness

Author: J. J. Connolly
Publisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 0715642219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478

Book Description
Hiding out in the Carribean until the heat dies down from his last job, X is thinking it’s time to ditch the resort life and calls up his old friend Morty to plot his return to London. But he’s hardly stepped off the plane when his associates, Sonny King and Roy ‘Twitchy’ Burns, get on the wrong side of a feuding Venezuelan drug cartel on the hunt for a sensitive package. Suddenly he’s thrown into a stand-off between rival mobs and with so many players in the game it’s tough going making out who wants to cut him a deal and who’s trying to kill him. Darkly comic, fast-paced and full of twists Viva la Madness is packed with sex, scams, drugs and enough dirty money to fill a few offshore bank accounts.

Layer Cake

Author: J. J. Connolly
Publisher: Prelude Books
ISBN: 0715641115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
Layer cake (n): a metaphor for the murky layers of the criminal world. Smooth-talking drug dealer X has a plan to quietly bankroll enough cash to retire before his thirtieth birthday. Operating under the polished veneer of a legitimate businessman, his mantra is to keep a low profile and run a tight operation until it’s time to get out . When kingpin Jimmy Price asks him to find the wayward daughter of a wealthy socialite who’s been running around with a cokehead, he accepts the job with the promise that after this he can leave the criminal world behind with Jimmy’s blessing. Oh, and he needs to find a buyer for two million ecstasy pills acquired by a crew of lowly, loud-mouth gangsters, the Yahoos. Simple enough, until an assassin named Klaus arrives to scratch him off his list, revealing this job is much more than it seems at first. From the glitz of the London club scene of the 1990’s to the underbelly of its criminal world, Layer Cake is the best in British crime fiction.

Viva La Madness

Author: J. J. Connolly
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468301756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
The renowned author explores the modern world of international crime in this “stunningly original . . . utterly mesmerizing” sequel to Layer Cake (Booklist). J.J. Connolly made crime fiction history with his acclaimed debut novel Layer Cake, which he adapted into a cult classic film starring Daniel Craig and Sienna Miller. Now Connolly continues the story of his anonymous hero in a novel that once again combines razor-sharp dialogue and quick-fire violence with a deep knowledge of criminal pathos. From the London underworld, Viva la Madness moves to international crime with trans-Atlantic drug deals, money laundering, and high-tech electronic fraud. In a dazzling combination of London low-life, Caribbean high-life, and Venezuelan drug cartels toting machine-guns in Mayfair, our hero's voice and mission are authentic, thrilling, and whiplash-inducing in equal shares.

Viva Jacquelina!

Author: Louis A. Meyer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547763506
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.

The Testament of Jessie Lamb

Author: Jane Rogers
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062130811
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
In a chilling future, one 16-year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism. The Testament of Jessie Lamb, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers. Its cunningly drawn characters and riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught with difficult moral choices will make The Testament of Jessie Lamb an instant favorite for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, and Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man. “The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie’s, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world.” —The Independent

Agua Viva

Author: Clarice Lispector
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816617821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.

The Light Between Oceans

Author: M.L. Stedman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451681755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

The Kill Order

Author: James Dashner
Publisher: Chicken House
ISBN: 1908435690
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
When sun flares hit the Earth, intense heat, toxic radiation and flooding followed, wiping out much of the human race. Those who survived live in basic communities in the mountains, hunting for food. For Mark and his friends, surviving is difficult, and then an enemy arrives, infecting people with a highly contagious virus. Thousands die, and the virus is spreading. Worse, it's mutating, and people are going crazy. It's up to Mark and his friends to find the enemy - and a cure - before the Flare infects them all ...

Winning Words

Author: William Sieghart
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571290132
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's most magical moments. From William Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, our most popular and best loved poets and poems are gathered in one essential collection, alongside many lesser known treasures that are waiting to be discovered. These are poems that help you to see the miraculous in the commonplace and turn the everyday into the exceptional - to discover, in Kipling's words, that yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

Bringing Down the House

Author: Ben Mezrich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743250842
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
The #1 national bestseller, now a major motion picture, 21—the amazing inside story about a gambling ring of M.I.T. students who beat the system in Vegas—and lived to tell how. Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.’s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the guidance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.’s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big. In less than two years they take some of the world’s most sophisticated casinos for more than three million dollars. But their success also brings with it the formidable ire of casino owners and launches them into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas with its private investigators and other violent heavies.