Author: Stefan Ahnhem
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250103231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
The third book in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series, a terrifying story of stolen identity and serial murder. ON A HOT SUMMER'S DAY The police chase a speeding car through the streets of Helsingborg. When they reach the bridge, the driver keeps going straight into the cold, dark waters of the Öresund strait. A TRAGIC ACCIDENT The body recovered from the wreck is that of Peter Brise, one of the city's richest tech entrepreneurs. Fabian Risk and his team are confident this is suicide. Young, rich, successful—Brise just didn't know how to ask for help. TURNS EVERTHING A LITTLE BIT COLDER... But then the autopsy reveals something unexpected. Brise was already dead when his car crashed. He'd been brutally murdered two months ago. His body frozen in perfect condition, at eighteen degrees below zero...Something doesn't match up. And when a string of other odd murders and unusual behavior come to light in the area, Fabian Risk takes the case.
Eighteen Below
Author: Stefan Ahnhem
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770899200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Gritty and chilling, Eighteen Below is the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series. A high-speed chase ends in tragedy when a car crashes into Helsingborg harbour. In the front seat is one of Sweden’s most affluent IT entrepreneurs. Initially all signs point to an accident, but a closer examination of the body shows that it has been frozen. Stranger yet is the time of death: two months before the crash. Two years have passed since the events of Victim Without a Face. Fabian Risk has taken advantage of the quiet at work to focus on patching things up with his family, while across the strait Dunja Hougaard has donned the uniform once more, this time as a police officer. When a homeless man is brutally beaten to death, Dunja can’t stop herself from starting an investigation of her own. Before long the clues take her to Sweden and Helsingborg, where Risk is investigating the peculiar case of the frozen millionaire.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770899200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Gritty and chilling, Eighteen Below is the third stand-alone thriller in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series. A high-speed chase ends in tragedy when a car crashes into Helsingborg harbour. In the front seat is one of Sweden’s most affluent IT entrepreneurs. Initially all signs point to an accident, but a closer examination of the body shows that it has been frozen. Stranger yet is the time of death: two months before the crash. Two years have passed since the events of Victim Without a Face. Fabian Risk has taken advantage of the quiet at work to focus on patching things up with his family, while across the strait Dunja Hougaard has donned the uniform once more, this time as a police officer. When a homeless man is brutally beaten to death, Dunja can’t stop herself from starting an investigation of her own. Before long the clues take her to Sweden and Helsingborg, where Risk is investigating the peculiar case of the frozen millionaire.
Mario
Author: Anthony Iacone
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641381086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Mario Muscella is a fictional character. His lifestyle is taken from many different experiences of the author and many others whom he has encountered over the years. In this story, Mario feels that he has to be accepted by his peers by doing everything that satisfies them even though he usually hates doing those things. Throughout most of his life, he is a follower, although he wants to break loose and become a leader. Mario is a child from the beginning, who never really grows up. He just gets older, weaker, and beaten down by the many pitfalls of his sorry life. He is a second generation Italian American growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in South Philadelphia. He has some success along the way, and at times, he accumulates some wealth and good fortune. Those components only seem to last for a few brief moments. Each time, he gets hit over the head with a large mallet, which brings him back to reality. He decides to go far away to school, and he finally meets a girl who he seems to love. As soon as he hits the high point of this romance, she does a complete 180 and breaks his heart. He never recovers from that dismal moment, which takes him down another rocky road. He is pushed into an unhappy marriage by his own hand. All during this time, he longs for his lost sweetheart, but he never cheats on his wife. Later on, his wife decides to betray him. None of this ends very well. His story is about cheating, heartaches, murder, crime, and other misfortunes that seem to plague him wherever he goes. He never seems to catch a break even when he works his tail off. He gets slammed in Eau Claire, Washington, DC, and back at home. Mario seems to be snake-bitten. Mario hits rock bottom. He runs away, but he can never run away from himself. He gets another chance with his lost love, but he gets hit with another surprise. He is always on the doorstep of some type of calamity. Mario is about to throw in the towel when something mysterious happens. He finds out that his luck is godsend. His life is about to change forever. He also may have found a new love that will also last forever.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1641381086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Mario Muscella is a fictional character. His lifestyle is taken from many different experiences of the author and many others whom he has encountered over the years. In this story, Mario feels that he has to be accepted by his peers by doing everything that satisfies them even though he usually hates doing those things. Throughout most of his life, he is a follower, although he wants to break loose and become a leader. Mario is a child from the beginning, who never really grows up. He just gets older, weaker, and beaten down by the many pitfalls of his sorry life. He is a second generation Italian American growing up in an ethnic neighborhood in South Philadelphia. He has some success along the way, and at times, he accumulates some wealth and good fortune. Those components only seem to last for a few brief moments. Each time, he gets hit over the head with a large mallet, which brings him back to reality. He decides to go far away to school, and he finally meets a girl who he seems to love. As soon as he hits the high point of this romance, she does a complete 180 and breaks his heart. He never recovers from that dismal moment, which takes him down another rocky road. He is pushed into an unhappy marriage by his own hand. All during this time, he longs for his lost sweetheart, but he never cheats on his wife. Later on, his wife decides to betray him. None of this ends very well. His story is about cheating, heartaches, murder, crime, and other misfortunes that seem to plague him wherever he goes. He never seems to catch a break even when he works his tail off. He gets slammed in Eau Claire, Washington, DC, and back at home. Mario seems to be snake-bitten. Mario hits rock bottom. He runs away, but he can never run away from himself. He gets another chance with his lost love, but he gets hit with another surprise. He is always on the doorstep of some type of calamity. Mario is about to throw in the towel when something mysterious happens. He finds out that his luck is godsend. His life is about to change forever. He also may have found a new love that will also last forever.
Sea Above, Sun Below
Author: George Salis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733256568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Upside-down lightning, a group of uncouth skydivers, resurrections, a mother's body overtaken by a garden, aquatic telepathy, a peeling snake-priest, and more. Sea Above, Sun Below is influenced by Western myths, some Greek, some with Biblical overtones, resulting in a fusion of fantastic dreams, bizarre yet beautiful nightmares, and multiple narrative threads that form a tapestry which depicts the fragility of characters teetering on the brink of madness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733256568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Upside-down lightning, a group of uncouth skydivers, resurrections, a mother's body overtaken by a garden, aquatic telepathy, a peeling snake-priest, and more. Sea Above, Sun Below is influenced by Western myths, some Greek, some with Biblical overtones, resulting in a fusion of fantastic dreams, bizarre yet beautiful nightmares, and multiple narrative threads that form a tapestry which depicts the fragility of characters teetering on the brink of madness.
Tamizdat
Author: Yasha Klots
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501768980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Tamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing "over there," tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled through various channels and printed outside the country, with or without their authors' knowledge. Yasha Klots demonstrates how tamizdat contributed to the formation of the twentieth-century Russian literary canon: the majority of contemporary Russian classics first appeared abroad long before they saw publication in Russia. Examining narratives of Stalinism and the Gulag, Klots focuses on contraband manuscripts in the 1960s and 70s, from Khrushchev's Thaw to Stagnation under Brezhnev. Klots revisits the traditional notion of late Soviet culture as a binary opposition between the underground and official state publishing. He shows that even as tamizdat represented an alternative field of cultural production in opposition to the Soviet regime and the dogma of Socialist Realism, it was not devoid of its own hierarchy, ideological agenda, and even censorship. Tamizdat is a cultural history of Russian literature outside the Iron Curtain. The Russian literary diaspora was the indispensable ecosystem for these works. Yet in the post-Stalin years, they also served as a powerful weapon on the cultural fronts of the Cold War, laying bare the geographical, stylistic, and ideological rifts between two disparate yet inextricably intertwined fields of Russian literature, one at home, the other abroad. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501768980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Tamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing "over there," tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled through various channels and printed outside the country, with or without their authors' knowledge. Yasha Klots demonstrates how tamizdat contributed to the formation of the twentieth-century Russian literary canon: the majority of contemporary Russian classics first appeared abroad long before they saw publication in Russia. Examining narratives of Stalinism and the Gulag, Klots focuses on contraband manuscripts in the 1960s and 70s, from Khrushchev's Thaw to Stagnation under Brezhnev. Klots revisits the traditional notion of late Soviet culture as a binary opposition between the underground and official state publishing. He shows that even as tamizdat represented an alternative field of cultural production in opposition to the Soviet regime and the dogma of Socialist Realism, it was not devoid of its own hierarchy, ideological agenda, and even censorship. Tamizdat is a cultural history of Russian literature outside the Iron Curtain. The Russian literary diaspora was the indispensable ecosystem for these works. Yet in the post-Stalin years, they also served as a powerful weapon on the cultural fronts of the Cold War, laying bare the geographical, stylistic, and ideological rifts between two disparate yet inextricably intertwined fields of Russian literature, one at home, the other abroad. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.