Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393069206
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.

Spook Street

Author: Mick Herron
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 161695647X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
"What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember their secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services to watch him. However, River has other things to worry about. A bomb goes off in the middle of a flash mob performance in a busy shopping center and kills forty innocent civilians. The agents of Slough House have to figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates"--

Spooks: Adam Carter Revealed

Author: K. udos
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 9780755334018
Category : Epistolatory fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Film and cinema.

Vietnam Spook Show

Author: Wayne Care
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
This novel of Vietnam Naval Intelligence is so authentic and revealing it required clearance by the National Security Agency. For Intelligence Officer Craig Nostrum, love for Vietnam is haunted by the constant destruction he sees around him. Then he decides to avenge the loss--and to stand up for what he has left.

The Spook who Sat by the Door

Author: Sam Greenlee
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814322468
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters" in this explosive, award-winning novel. As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.

Revenge of the Witch

Author: Joseph Delaney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786286416
Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."

Spook Country

Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147288
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
The “cool and scary”(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer. • spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.” • country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. • spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... “A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”—The Washington Post Book World

Spooks

Author: Jim Hougan
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504075269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592

Book Description
“Probably the most eye-opening and engrossing exposé to date of the bizarre ‘power games’ played by multinational corporations and tycoons.” —Publishers Weekly A classic of investigative reporting, Spooks is a treasure trove of who-shot-who research on the metastasis of the US intelligence community, whose practices and personnel have engulfed the larger society. Teeming with tales of wiremen, hitmen, and mobsters; crooked politicians and corrupt cops going about their business of regime-change, union-busting, wiretapping, money laundering, and industrial espionage, read about: • Richard Nixon’s “Mission Impossible” war on Aristotle Onassis • Not-so-deep-fake porno films starring the CIA’s enemies • The Robert Vesco heist, targeting billions in numbered Swiss accounts • Robert Maheu and the kidnapping of billionaire Howard Hughes • The murder-for-hire of a Columbia University professor • Bobby Kennedy’s archipelago of private intelligence agencies—Intertel and the “Five I’s” • “The Friendly Ghost” and Nixon’s secret account in the offshore Castle Bank & Trust “One of the best non-fiction books of the year, a monument of fourth-level research and fact-searching.” —Los Angeles Times “This book will curl your hair with its revelations and the names it names. A landmark book in its field of investigative reporting.” —John Barkham Reviews “Hougan is a superb storyteller and the pages teem with unforgettable characters. Admirable.” —The Washington Post “Hougan is exhilarating on the mystique of spooks.” —The New York Review of Book

Too Cute to Spook

Author: Diana Aleksandrova
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953118011
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Lorry wants to be the scariest monster of all, but unlike the other monsters, he doesn't look scary at all. Lorry is cute and kids aren't afraid of cute little monsters.

The Spook's Bestiary

Author: Joseph Delaney
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0370329791
Category : Animals, Mythical
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
A companion title to the phenomenally successful Spook's Apprentice titles. Discover how to bind a boggart and deal with a dead witch in this fascinating and lavishly illustrated Spook's own notebook. A must for die-hard fans of the series and an irresistible introduction to the dark and the dangerous for new recruits.