All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802165729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467

Book Description
This prize-winning comic thriller takes readers “from high-octane gun antics to kitchen mopping in East Kilbride . . . [in] one beast of a story” (The Guardian, UK). International bestselling author Christopher Brookmyre has been lauded for his dark sense of humor and brilliant suspense plotting. Now his Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize–winning novel follows “his most ambitious heroine yet”: a forty-six-year-old house-proud grandmother (The Guardian, UK). As a teenager, Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo, surrounded by the likes of James Bond. But now her dreams are as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet. Her son Ross, a researcher for a Swiss arms manufacturer, is the one with the exciting life. But lately it’s gotten a bit too exciting. Ross needs to disappear before some shady characters force him to divulge the secrets of his research. And they’re not the only ones desperate to locate him. Ross’s firm has hired a team of security experts, and, headed by the enigmatic Bett, they have little in common apart from total professionalism and a thorough disregard for the law. Bett believes the key to Ross’s whereabouts is his mother, and in one respect, he is right. But even he is taken aback by her dogged determination to secure her son’s safety. The teenage dreams of fast cars, high-tech firepower, and extreme action had always promised to be fun and games, but in real life, it’s likely someone is going to lose an eye . . . “Funny, electric and captivating.” —Times (UK)

The Routledge History of Literature in English

Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315461285
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 622

Book Description
The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature from AD 600 to the present day. Accompanying language notes explore the interrelationships between language and literature, emphasising the growth of literary writing, its traditions, conventions and changing characteristics. Extensive quotations from poetry, prose and drama underpin the narrative. With a new chapter on novels, drama and poetry in the 21st century and an extensive companion website, The Routledge History of Literature in English will be an invaluable reference for any student of English literature and language.

A Snowball In Hell

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0748131922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
The third book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre. If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show contestant. He's also got the media taped - by the simple expedient of by-passing them completely and posting real-time coverage of his killings on the internet. He's got viewing figures to make the world's TV executives gasp in envy, and he's pulling the voyeuristic strings of every viewer by getting them to 'vote' to keep his captives alive. Angelique De Xavier, his previous nemesis, is drafted onto the police team trying to bring this one-man celebrity hate-fest to an end. But she can't do it alone, she needs the magical skills of her lover, only she doesn't know where Zal is and meanwhile a whole load of celebs are, literarly, dying to be famous. An intelligent satire, a thriller with exhilarating pace - Christopher Brookmyre at his best.

Someday You'll Thank Me for This!

Author: Marc Gellman
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316087149
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
Clean your room! Don't Interrupt! Were you raised in a zoo? These sayings may sound all too familiar; they may even make kids want to groan. But what if someone could magically make all the rules parents give--or a least 30 of them--actually make sense? Translator of the secret language of parents, Rabbi Marc Gellman, to the rescue! In addition to co-hosting the cable program "The God Squad" and co-writing a nationally syndicated column, Marc Gellman has appeared on many national network TV programs including Good Morning America and writes a solo column for Newsweek online. In his companion book to the successful ALWAYS WEAR CLEAN UNDERWEAR: AND OTHER WAYS PARENTS SAY "I LOVE YOU", Gellman uses wit and humor to help readers understand their parents' motivations.

netwars - The Code - Compilation One

Author: M. Sean Coleman
Publisher: BASTEI LÜBBE
ISBN: 3732503941
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
netwars: The Code - Compilation, for the first time all six episodes of the serial cyber thriller appear in one collection. -- Hackers. Cyber warfare. Terrorism. Forget Edward Snowden and the NSA. Do you really know who's monitoring your data? -- Welcome to the Deep Web. Those parts of the internet no search engine explores. The place where you can buy anything. Drugs, children, weapons. Anyone can do it. And get away free. -- It all starts with a plane crash. Anthony Prince, head of PrinceSec, a firm that provides high-tech security for the government and major corporations, dies in an airplane accident when crossing the English Channel. Responsible for Prince's death is a hacker named Strider, whose real name is Scott Mitchell. During his day job at the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) Mitchell uses legitimate means to get the bad guys. As Strider, he pushes the boundaries of the law to punish them. On the night of Anthony Prince's death, PrinceSec suffers a cyber-attack. Passwords, secrets, security measures to high profile targets are stolen. When the NCCU is called to assess the damage, they find a link between Prince and a criminal hacker group called Black Flag. The race is on for Mitchell to protect his identity as Strider and to stop Black Flag before the next attack. -- netwars: The Code is part of a transmedia project based on real facts and cyber-attack scenarios. The project spans multiple story platforms including a fact-based website (www.netwars-project.com) and the interactive graphic novel app "netwars: The Butterfly Attack." For fans of Dave Eggers, THE CIRCLE; Daniel Suarez, DARKNET; the movie ENEMY OF THE STATE, and espionage and high-tech thrillers. -- About the Author: M. Sean Coleman launched his career as one of the original writers on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Online. He has since written and produced original, award-winning shows for MSN, O2, Sony Pictures, Fox, the BBC, and Channel 4. He continues to write novels, graphic novels and tv scripts from his home in London.

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

Author: C. Brookmyre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780356241692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description

Reverend Jonah

Author: Paul Ciufo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
To a conservative church in a south-western Ontario town comes Jonah Arias-a troubled, left-leaning, pill-popping United Church minister. Reverend Jonah is young and idealistic, with courage enough to challenge the power-brokers in his small community. When he starts an inappropriate relationship with a young woman in the congregation, and then decides to repatriate a former member of the church expelled for being in a lesbian relationship, the ensuing battle threatens to derail Jonah's career and fracture the church. The play, like Reverend Jonah himself, is unafraid to ask the tough questions: Do we have the right to judge one another? What constitutes integrity? What is courage? Are we prepared to embrace rather than censure our fellow human beings? Thoughtful and powerful, Reverend Jonah challenges us to explore the meanings of community in the very broadest sense.

All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye

Author: Christopher Brookmyre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780356241685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo

Author: Tom Humphries
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9781903650530
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Tom Humphries is a passion machine according to his colleagues at the Irish Times. Yes, he may sit in the press box, but in his heart, he is in the right place. On the terrace. For Tom is a true sports fan. And it shows in his passionate style of writing, which has won him several awards and thousands of sports fans. This book will contain some achingly hilarious and menacing accounts of his sporting year including: an interview with Clinton Morris at Crystal Palace; waiting with his daughter to try to get an autograph from Roy Keane; the Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City and Lillehammer; World Cup 2002, when he broke the news of Keane's return to Ireland; the time spent with Sergio Garcia at his home in Spain; the Ryder Cup; the Euro athletic championship in Munich and many more sporting occasions.

Inside Windows NT Infrastructures

Author: David Iseminger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 478

Book Description
There are lots of authors who can explain how to install Windows NT, and no end of tomes telling you more than you ever needed to know about how NT works. But where do you go for answers to real questions like these? When it comes to questions of scaleup, cabling, performance tradeoffs, remote access, and all the other nuts-and-bolts issues with which network professionals grapple, there's only one place to go-the source. Inside Windows NT Infrastructures was written by someone who has worked in the Microsoft Windows NT Group for years. The crucial tips, techniques, and rules of thumb it contains were obtained the hard way-by running NT on hundreds of machines, in countless environments, and under real-life deployment conditions. As a result, it is the most authoritative source of practical information on such key administration and management issues as planning your infrastructure, networking protocols, routing, backbones, server sizing, interoperability, security, and more. Other hot topics covered in detail include: * Choosing the best domain model for your operation * Switches versus hubs * Ensuring reliability and performance within your deployment * Remote access that really works * Choosing hardware and software wisely For complete practical solutions to all your Windows NT networking issues, turn to the source -Inside Windows NT Infrastructures.