The Orpheus Deception
Author | : David Stone |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780399154638 |
STONE/ORPHEUS DECEPTION
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Author | : David Stone |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780399154638 |
STONE/ORPHEUS DECEPTION
Author | : David Stone |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2008-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 144063775X |
"A testosterone-fueled thriller."—Publishers Weekly In his New York Times bestselling debut, The Echelon Vendetta, David Stone introduced covert operative Micah Dalton. Once, it was his job to take care of other agents’ mistakes. Coldly, cleanly—and permanently. Now, Micah is on the outs with his former employers, staying off the radar and hopefully out of firing range. When an attempt is made on his life in the rainy streets of Venice, he knows his best chance of survival is under the shadowy wings of the CIA. To prove his worth, he accepts their mission: an agent and old associate of Micah's has been taken in the China Sea, the only survivor of a brutal pirate attack. He's to find the man and find him fast. But Micah's mission is not about a man. It's about an elusive ship known only as The Mingo Dubai that is already under way, heading toward the West. And its cargo is death.
Author | : David Stone |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2007-02-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101215151 |
CIA agent Micah Dalton is a "cleaner." He takes care of other agents' mistakes. When a friend and mentor commits a grotesque suicide, Dalton's investigation leads him into the snare of a madman, into the arms of a beautiful, mysterious stranger-and into a conspiracy within his own agency. Dalton knows only one thing for certain-this job is going to get very messy.
Author | : Ann Wroe |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2011-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1446400905 |
For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him. She traces the man, and the power he represents, through the myriad versions of a fantastical life: his birth in Thrace, his studies in Egypt, his voyage with the Argonauts to fetch the Golden Fleece, his love for Eurydice and journey to Hades, and his terrible death. We see him tantalising Cicero and Plato, and breathing new music into Gluck and Monteverdi; occupying the mind of Jung and the surreal dreams of Cocteau; scandalising the Fathers of the early Church, and filling Rilke with poems like a whirlwind. He emerges as not simply another mythical figure but the force of creation itself, singing the song of light out of darkness and life out of death.
Author | : Jonas Grethlein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2021-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316518817 |
A bold new history of ancient aesthetics and its entanglement with ethics, with ongoing significance for current debates.
Author | : David Stone |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2009-04-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101032626 |
An explosive new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author. CIA cleaner Micah Dalton has taken his revenge against the Serbian gang who shot his lover. Then he receives a mysterious jade box containing a stainless steel glasscutter. Someone is sending him a very serious message, a message that will force him back into action against a foe out to unleash chaos upon the world...
Author | : David Stone |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2010-04-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101187182 |
In Vienna for a secret meeting, CIA cleaner Micah Dalton notices he is being followed. When he turns the tables and captures one of his watchers-mysterious operative Veronika Miklas-he is targetd by not only his enemies but his allies. He has inadvertently uncovered a secret that could shatter America's strategic global alliances. And Dalton will have to push himself to the very edge in a desperate attempt to save his honor and his life.
Author | : E. Sweeney |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137063734 |
This interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude.
Author | : Julian Wagner |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2024-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004701540 |
The book offers an in-depth narratological analysis of the 'Book of Orpheus' (10.1-11.84) of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Starting from fundamental aspects of narrative like time, space, and focalisation, the commentary highlights the polyphony of the various narrative levels. The complex and challenging design results from a constant oscillation between the narrator-persona of Ovid and the programmatic Orpheus-figure which has found a wealth of interpretations. In addition, the study places the 10th book in the overall narrative framework of Ovid's Metamorphoses with its density of intertextuality and metanarrativity.
Author | : Joel Schwindt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2021-08-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1000431339 |
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.