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A woman and her stepson are gunned down while driving to school on a quiet residential street. An former bodyguard kills himself by firing two pistols simultaneously. Was the killer really aft er the woman's husband, the notorious drug baron Mansel Shale? And what possible connection could Shale's collection of pre-Raphaelite works of art have to the killings? Nothing in Bill James's latest Harpur & Iles thriller is as it seems. When the polic...

War looms, but the Prime minister's talks with Hitler in Munich seem to result in a pact of peace. Now Mount, a secret service officer, is sent on an undercover mission to Berlin. But with all this talk of peace he starts to wonder whether his mission has any point. All until a meeting with Toumlin and two good-time girls from the local bar results in a broken chair. 192 pp.

From the one-of-kind mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a "thought-provoking meditation” (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crime—now available in paperback. The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America. Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill Ja...

When Harpur and Iles are called in to investigate an undercover investigation gone wrong, they can sense dark, hazardous times ahead . . . - "After a gang shooting involving an undercover police officer, Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are called to another Force's ground to investigate what the Home Office see as spectacular failings. Harpur can imagine the pressure the officer would have been under. If a gang...

A large, carefully plotted "cash-in-transit" raid goes hopelessly awry when armed policemen intervene to seize the perpetrators. Relatives and friends of the incarcerated are convinced that information-the date, the time-was leaked by the only man to escape before his arrest. Deputy Constable Colin Harpur and Assistant Constable Desmond Iles are delegated the job of hiding and protecting the informant and his family.

Following the murder of his wife and son, tycoon drugs dealer Mansel Shale is determined to get vengeance - and he wants another drugs baron, Ralph Ember, to help him. When they learn of the plan, top policemen Harpur and Iles must do all they can to prevent the ensuing bloodbath.

Big drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk supplier: Barney and his two women have been savagely murdered-and the murderers, three drug rivals from London, are still in the house. Beau dies quickly at their hands, they let Ralph go-for the moment-but he's a marked man because of what he's seen. When Melanie, Beau's alluring, ruthless girlfrie...

È stato ucciso Ian Aston, forse a colpi di mazza forse in altro modo: nemmeno l'arma del delitto è definita. Era un uomo di raccordo della malavita. Era anche l'amante dell'inquieta Sarah, la moglie, da poco madre di una bambina, del tirannico Desmond Iles, numero due della polizia locale. L'omicidio, per lo stile e il luogo, sembra un regolamento di conti. Ma nessuno può fare a meno di sospettare di Iles, il quale, del resto, è così arrogante...

Quando fu uccisa da tre coltellate al torace nel parcheggio di una stazione ferroviaria, Megan Harpur stava tornando a casa, a dire al marito che lo lasciava per un altro uomo". Megan, la moglie del Soprintendente di Polizia Colin Harpur, è stata fino a questo punto, tra i personaggi della serie ambientata da Bill James in un'innominata città costiera dell'Inghilterra meridionale, il critico più severo e sprezzante della "zona grigia" tra legg...

In this second collection of recent articles (the first was Solid Fool's Gold), groundbreaking sabermetrician and baseball historian Bill James takes his unique way of looking at the world and applies it to topics as diverse as the major league players who went out on top, whether ground ball pitchers are as good (or as bad) as people think, do hitters like Yasiel Puig have hot hand streaks (they do) and why (that's a different question), and ...

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The Presence of the Ark of the Covenant was a holy and respected thing just as the Eucharistic Tabernacle is today. Both of these bring us the presence of God. The scriptures show us that Mary has become the new ark of the covenant and this work shows this connection. Mary is the Ark of the Lord, the Ark of the Covenant, 'The Ark' in various different symbolisms in the Bible. Both Luke and John directly relate Mary to the Ark, numerous other t...

George Lepage, the Hulliborn's new director, dreams of bringing the Japanese Ancient Surgical Skills exhibition, with its astonishing collection of tonsil excision implements, to the museum. But an unhinged ex-staff member is determined to wreak havoc, and when the museum is burgled, the fate of the exhibition hangs dangerously in the balance.

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At nineteen years old, Colin Harpur's girlfriend Denise Prior knows little about criminals, and even less about the law. When Denise drifts into the social circle of Harpur's number-one informant Jack Lamb, and one of the criminals is shot to death during a robbery, Denise's life is suddenly in danger and Harpur must solve a new crime-before it happens.

C'è aria tesa ai vertici di polizia dell'innominata città in cui Bill James ambienta i suoi polizieschi sociologici. Si discute se e come infiltrare nelle cosche della droga una giovane agente. Lo scontro è tra due politiche opposte: il Capo, l'insicuro e paranoico Lane, vorrebbe passare all'attacco, mentre il cinico e ambizioso Assistente Capo Iles, è per il compromesso che ha garantito la pace nelle strade. Sotto sotto c'è molto di più. Lane...

Seguendo le inchieste di Colin Harpur e Desmond Iles - gli umani troppo umani eroi della serie ideata da Bill James a rappresentare il lato oscuro dell'Inghilterra in età post-thatcheriana -ci rendiamo conto che tutto questo movimento ansioso, questi dialoghi spezzati e aggressivi, questa avidità diffusa che sembra non riuscire mai a placare una sete disperata, questi eccessi selvaggi hanno un unico fine. In questo romanzo il "detective è mort...

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