Grk Undercover: Two Novels

Grk Undercover: Two Novels
Author: Joshua Doder
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307982211

In Grk Takes Revenge, Tim and his intrepid dog Grk rush off to Paris to protect their friend Max, who has gone there to confront an evil dictator. In Grk Down Under, Tim travels to Australia to rescue Grk, who gets caught in the middle of a hostage situation. Exotic locales and action-packed adventures will keep readers turning the pages and cheering on these unlikely heroes!

Undercover Sins

Undercover Sins
Author: Hayley B. James
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1615818545

Police officer Gabriel Carter goes undercover in Las Vegas as a male prostitute to stop a human trafficker.

Making Jack Falcone

Making Jack Falcone
Author: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2023-03-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1668008572

This fascinating work offers the untold true story of the highly decorated FBI agent who goes deep undercover to bring down one of La Cosa Nostra's most notorious crime families.

Leaving the Atocha Station

Leaving the Atocha Station
Author: Ben Lerner
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1566892929

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his relationships with the people he meets in Spain as fraudulent as he fears his poems are? A witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by? In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a portrait of the artist as a young man in an age of Google searches, pharmaceuticals, and spectacle. Born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellowship. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie. Leaving the Atocha Station is his first novel.

The Poseidon Network

The Poseidon Network
Author: Kathryn Gauci
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780648714408

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Kathryn Gauci, comes a mesmerising, emotional espionage thriller that no fan of WWII fiction will want to miss."One never knows where fate will take us. Cairo taught me that. Expect the unexpected. Little did I realise when I left London that I would walk out of one nightmare into another." 1943. SOE agent Larry Hadley leaves Cairo for German and Italian occupied Greece. His mission is to liaise with the Poseidon network under the leadership of the White Rose. Before long he finds himself involved with a beautiful and intriguing woman whose past is shrouded in mystery. he finds himself involved with a beautiful and intriguing woman whose past is shrouded in mystery. In a country where hardship, destruction and political instability threaten to split the Resistance, and terror and moral ambiguity live side by side, Larry's instincts tell him something is wrong. Aer the devastating massacre in a small mountain village by the Wehrmacht, combined with new intelligence concerning the escape networks, he is forced to confront the likelihood of a traitor in their midst. But who is it? Time is running out and he must act before the network is blown. The stakes are high. From the shadowy souks and cocktail parties of Cairo's elite to the mountains of Greece, Athens, the Aegean Islands, and Turkey, The Poseidon Network, is an unforgettable cat-and-mouse portrait of wartime that you will not want to put down.

Undercover War: Black OPS - Book 1

Undercover War: Black OPS - Book 1
Author: Michael Kasner
Publisher: Caliber Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

From Action/Adventure novelist Michael Kasner comes a covert military thriller series! Formed by an elite cadre of government officials, the five member Black OPS team goes where the law can’t - to seek retribution for acts of terror directed against Americans anywhere in the world. BLACK OPS - BOOK ONE: AMERICA CAUGHT IN A CARIBBEAN UPRISING! The strident call to action comes from Cuba as an unprecedented wave of violence against Americans that Castro’s inheritors can’t-or won’t- control. When the U.S. offers of military support are turned down, the five member Black OPS force is dispatched on a clandestine down and dirty mission... In the tradition of Don Pendleton's Executioner Mack Bolan and Warren Murphy's Destroyer classic paperback book series!

Plum Spooky

Plum Spooky
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009-01-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429990880

Plum Spooky, the First Full Length Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novel from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich. Turn on all the lights and check under your bed. Things are about to get spooky in Trenton, New Jersey. According to legend, the Jersey Devil prowls the Pine Barrens and soars above the treetops in the dark of night. As eerie as this might seem, there are things in the Barrens that are even more frightening and dangerous. And there are monkeys. Lots of monkeys. Wulf Grimoire is a world wanderer and an opportunist who can kill without remorse and disappear like smoke. He's chosen Martin Munch, boy genius, as his new business partner, and he's chosen the Barrens as his new playground. Munch received his doctorate degree in quantum physics when he was twenty-two. He's now twenty-four, and while his brain is large, his body hasn't made it out of the boys' department at Macy's. Anyone who says good things come in small packages hasn't met Munch. Wulf Grimoire is looking for world domination. Martin Munch would be happy if he could just get a woman naked and tied to a tree. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has Munch on her most-wanted list for failure to appear in court. Plum is the all-American girl stuck in an uncomfortable job, succeeding on luck and tenacity. Usually she gets her man. This time she gets a monkey. She also gets a big guy named Diesel. Diesel pops in and out of Plum's life like birthday cake – delicious to look at and taste, not especially healthy as a steady diet, gone by the end of the week if not sooner. He's an über bounty hunter with special skills when it comes to tracking men and pleasing women. He's after Grimoire, and now he's also after Munch. And if truth were told, he wouldn't mind setting Stephanie Plum in his crosshairs. Diesel and Plum hunt down Munch and Grimoire, following them into the Barrens, surviving cranberry bogs, the Jersey Devil, a hair-raising experience, sand in their underwear, and, of course . . . monkeys.

Children's Books and Their Creators

Children's Books and Their Creators
Author: Anita Silvey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 862
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780395653807

Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.

Reading Espionage Fiction

Reading Espionage Fiction
Author: Martin Griffin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 1399520822

Reading Espionage Fiction: Narrative, Conflict and Commitment from World War I to the Contemporary Era probes the ways in which the struggles and loyalties of political modernity have been portrayed in the espionage story over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reading works by authors such as Somerset Maugham, Helen MacInnes, John le Carre, Sam E. Greenlee and Gerald Seymour as popular literature deserving of sustained attention, this book shows how these narratives have both created a modern genre and, at the same time, sought an escape from its limitations. Martin Griffin takes up the importance of plot and character and argues that, in this branch of fiction, the personal has always and ever been political.

The Anubis Slayings

The Anubis Slayings
Author: P. C. Doherty
Publisher: Berkley Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Amerotke (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780425185810

After Egypt's victory over the Mitanni tribe, pharaoh-queen Hatshepsut begins peace negotiations. But when a sacrilegious theft and a murder violate the temple of Anubis, the jackal-god of the dead, Hatshepsut puts her chief advisor, Amerotke, on the case. Soon, more killings lead to a rumor that the slayer may be the angered god Anubis himself--and the god of the dead leaves no survivors. Martin's Press. (August)