A Brief Affair With A Con Man

Author : Kimberly Larsen
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662421068

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A Brief Affair with a Con Man by Kimberly Larsen Pdf

When a natural disaster puts Billy Malone at Nicole Freeman’s cabin in the woods, she soon finds that his offer to help her out of her predicament was simply a way of drawing her in to his web of deceit. Her loneliness and desire for a connection blinded her to the truth of how she was being drawn in to a relationship that was fraught with dishonesty. Before she realizes it, this dashingly handsome, younger-aged, charismatic charmer suddenly has her unknowingly wrapped up in his schemes. As she learns more about him and the danger that she may be in, she tries to back away, but Billy won’t have it. His self-destructive and manipulative ways keep her engaged, while his seizures and strokes tug at her compassionate side. Yet an overnight stay at the hospital gives her insight into a person that she couldn’t have predicted being capable of deceiving not only her but also everyone in town who ever crossed his path. Nicole barrels down a road of figuring out how to disconnect from a man whom she discovers has a violent past without putting herself further into harm’s way. She is aided by a local sheriff’s officer who sees the trouble she is in and takes it upon himself to bring Malone in once and for all.

Author : Sara Lea
Publisher : Porkchop Publishing LLC
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953476050

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The Art of Desperation by Sara Lea Pdf

Love can be obsessive… Ever since Beth’s best friend was murdered, her life has been spiraling out of control. Clinging to Charlie, she struggles to cope with the loss. But Charlie is hiding something- and the more he tries to avoid the truth, the more he loses touch with reality. As Beth begins to discover the truth, she starts to wonder… who does Charlie think she is? Charlie’s desperation to be with her and to start a family has become an obsession. When the truth is finally revealed, Charlie takes things into his own hands. He can’t let Beth leave. He won’t lose the woman he loves again, and he will stop at nothing to make sure that doesn’t happen. Keywords: domestic thriller, thriller, psychological thriller, cheating spouse, guilty spouse, murder, cheating, possessive husband, stalker, mystery thriller, romantic thriller, gritty thriller, childhood trauma, young couples, marriage, secrets, lies, lovers, secret pregnancy. Readers also enjoyed books by: Kiersten Modglin, Frieda McFadden, Sally Hepworth, Britney King, A.R. Torre

Author : Mark Simmons
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244800895

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Operation Flamenco by Mark Simmons Pdf

MI5 agent Rob Nicolson is sent to Spain, he is an IRA target after his last mission. Just sit in the sun, get some R & R until it blows over. There is a small job he can do to pass the time. Look up Commander Styles, an ex-pat, an old Firm agent, raising a stink. It is another 'easy job' that goes wrong as Rob arrives on the Costa del Sol to find Styles dead. Murdered; why and by whom? Rob soon feels he is being manipulated. The only person he can rely on, a young woman of Welsh/Spanish descent, a Flamenco dancer. His dilemma, should he bring her into his dangerous world?

Author : Robert A. Parker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781304488862

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A Literary Cavalcade-I by Robert A. Parker Pdf

For six decades, writer and editor Robert A. Parker has followed up each book he reads, mainly novels, with an evaluation. His comments are informed by an independent critical view that balances a moral and literary sensibility. In this first of six volumes, the authors covered range from Kobo Abe to Michael Cunningham. They include Richard Adams, Russell Banks, Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, James Carroll, Willa Cather, J. M. Coetzee, and Joseph Conrad. The commentaries are listed alphabetically by author, and the books by the date of publication for each author. Some authors are represented by one book, some by five or more. Future volumes will cover additional authors alphabetically. The writers here represent a broad range of writing styles, cultural influences, and moral philosophies. And all are rated on their literary achievement, the effectiveness of plot, character, and setting, plus their recognition of the moral, ethical, and spiritual values of mankind.

Author : Victoria Wilcox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493048298

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The World of Doc Holliday by Victoria Wilcox Pdf

His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp, and he is probably most famous for his time in Tombstone. But Doc Holliday’s story is a much richer than that one sentence summary allows. His was a life of travel across the west—from Georgia to Texas, from Dodge City to Las Vegas, across Arizona and from New Mexico to Colorado and Montana. Revealed from contemporary newspaper accounts and records of interviews with Doc himself and the people who knew him and packed with archival photos and illustrations, The World of Doc Holliday offers a real first-hand accounting of his life of adventure.

Author : Ashleigh Wilson
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922253811

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Brett Whiteley by Ashleigh Wilson Pdf

When he died in 1992 Brett Whiteley left behind decades of ceaseless activity—some works bound to a particular place or time, others that are masterpieces of light and line. Whiteley had arrived in Europe in 1960 determined to make an impression. Before long he was the youngest artist to have work acquired by the Tate. With his wife, Wendy, and daughter, Arkie, Whiteley then immersed himself in bohemian New York. But within two years he fled, having failed to break through. Back in Sydney, he soon became Australia’s most celebrated artist. He won the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes in the same year—his prices soared, as did his fame. Among his friends were Francis Bacon and Patrick White, Billy Connolly and Dire Straits. Yet addiction was taking its toll: Whiteley struggled in vain to separate his talent from his disease, and an inglorious end approached. Written with unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, and handsomely illustrated with classic Whiteley artworks, rare notebook sketches and candid family photos, this dazzling biography reveals for the first time the full portrait of a mercurial artist. Ashleigh Wilson has been a journalist for almost two decades. He began his career at the Australian in Sydney before spending several years in Brisbane, covering everything from state politics to the Hollingworth crisis to indigenous affairs. He then moved north to become the paper's Darwin correspondent, a posting bookended by the Falconio murder trial and the Howard government’s intervention in remote Aboriginal communities. During that time he won a Walkley Award for reports on unethical behaviour in the Aboriginal art industry, a series that led to a Senate inquiry. He returned to Sydney in 2008 and has been the paper’s Arts Editor since 2011. He lives in Sydney. ‘Ashleigh Wilson has produced an intriguing, absorbing and assured account of Brett Whiteley’s life and work’. Mark Knopfler ‘With relentless precision, Ashleigh Wilson has provided a peerless grasp of the life and genius of Brett Whiteley. This storied journey of one of Australia’s most mercurial twentieth-century artists will be impossible for the reader to put aside until it is finished. It is the dispassionate biography Whiteley has long needed: a career clarified from the brilliant clouds of myth.’ Barry Pearce, Emeritus Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW ‘A full-dress life of Whiteley that speeds and soars and never ceases to do homage to the colossal confrontation and contradiction the artist represents...Wilson has written that rarest of things, a 400-page biography that is hard to put down...[It] will make you weep for this exasperation of a man and hunger for his art.’ Australian ‘An essential and invaluable resource for any Whiteley scholar...Wilson’s achievement is considerable...Ashleigh Wilson’s Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing is a benchmark publication in Whiteley studies.’ Sydney Review of Books ‘The best biography I read [this year] was Ashleigh Wilson’s Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing...Combines journalistic rigour and personal compassion his landmark account of one of our greatest artists.’ Australian ‘Ashleigh Wilson’s biography of Brett Whiteley is hard to put down. The narrative hums along beautifully, allowing readers a rare insight into Whiteley’s complex genius. A colossal undertaking, helped by extraordinary access. Wilson has delivered readers—and history—an absorbing, detailed and fascinating read.’ Walkley Magazine ‘Ashleigh Wilson methodically tracks this mercurial artist from early family days to his final years—a motley of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, and importantly, art.’ Art Almanac

Author : Barbara Foley
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822313944

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Radical Representations by Barbara Foley Pdf

In this revisionary study, Barbara Foley challenges prevalent myths about left-wing culture in the Depression-era U.S. Focusing on a broad range of proletarian novels and little-known archival material, the author recaptures an important literature and rewrites a segment of American cultural history long obscured and distorted by the anti-Communist bias of contemporaries and critics. Josephine Herbst, William Attaway, Jack Conroy, Thomas Bell and Tillie Olsen, are among the radical writers whose work Foley reexamines. Her fresh approach to the U.S. radicals' debates over experimentalism, the relation of art to propaganda, and the nature of proletarian literature recasts the relation of writers to the organized left. Her grasp of the left's positions on the "Negro question" and the "woman question" enables a nuanced analysis of the relation of class to race and gender in the proletarian novel. Moreover, examining the articulation of political doctrine in different novelistic modes, Foley develops a model for discussing the interplay between politics and literary conventions and genres. Radical Representations recovers a literature of theoretical and artistic value meriting renewed attention form those interested in American literature, American studies, the U. S. left, and cultural studies generally.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990
ISBN : MINN:31951P00482552Q

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Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran Pdf

Author : Matthew Chapman
Publisher : Picador
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781429971843

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Trials of the Monkey by Matthew Chapman Pdf

"When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man he was thinking of his progeny." So declares Darwin's great-great grandson Matthew Chapman as he leaves behind his stressful career as a Hollywood screenwriter and travels to Dayton, Tennessee where in 1925 creationist opposition to the teaching of evolution in schools was played out in a famous legal drama, the Scopes Trial. The purpose of this journey is to see if opinions have changed in the seventy- five intervening years. A defiant atheist, Chapman is confronted not only by the fundamentalist beliefs that continue to banish the theory of evolution but by his own spiritual malaise as the outward journey becomes an inward quest, a tragicomic "accidental memoir". "First there was Charles Darwin, two yards long and nobody's fool. Then there was his son, my great-grandfather, Sir Francis Darwin, an eminent botanist. Then came my grandmother Frances, a modest poet who spent a considerable amount of time in rest-homes for depression From her issued my beloved mother, Clare, who was extremely short, failed to complete medical school, and eventually became an alcoholic. Then we get down to me. I'm in the movie business." Trials of the Monkey combines travel writing and reportage, as Chapman records his encounters in the South, with history and the accidental memoir of a man full of mid-life doubts in a genre-breaking first book that is darkly funny, provocative and poignant.

Author : Peter Biskind
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781439126615

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Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind Pdf

In 1969, a low-budget biker movie, Easy Rider, shocked Hollywood with its stunning success. An unabashed celebration of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll (onscreen and off), Easy Rider heralded a heady decade in which a rebellious wave of talented young filmmakers invigorated the movie industry. In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind takes us on the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars, how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off. After the success of Easy Rider, young film-school graduates suddenly found themselves in demand, and directors such as Francis Coppola, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese became powerful figures. Even the new generation of film stars -- Nicholson, De Niro, Hoffman, Pacino, and Dunaway -- seemed a breed apart from the traditional Hollywood actors. Ironically, the renaissance would come to an end with Jaws and Star Wars, hugely successful films that would create a blockbuster mentality and crush innovation. Based on hundreds of interviews with the directors themselves, producers, stars, agents, writers, studio executives, spouses, and ex-spouses, this is the full, candid story of Hollywood's last golden age. Never before have so many celebrities talked so frankly about one another and about the drugs, sex, and money that made so many of them crash and burn. By turns hilarious and shocking, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of Hollywood at work and play.

Author : Dennis M. Marlock
Publisher : Paladin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1581602693

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How To Become A Professional Con Artist by Dennis M. Marlock Pdf

A fool and his money are soon parted, so the saying goes. And if the job is done right, the fool doesn't even realize it's happened until the wily con artist has moved on to the next victim or the next town. In this entertaining and eye-opening book, Dennis M. Marlock, a retired cop and chairman of the board for the international law enforcement organization Professionals Against Confidence Crime, takes the reader into the mind and greedy heart of the con man. You'll learn the mechanics behind famous swindles such as the pigeon drop, the Jamaican switch, bank-examiner schemes, three-card monte and even fortune-telling. You'll find out why a good scam artist rarely gets caught and, if he does, how he gets away with the lightest punishment or no punishment at all. If you've ever read a news story about a sucker getting taken and wondered how he could have fallen for that, you need to read this book before an honest-faced stranger offers you a deal too good to pass up.

Author : Dueep Jyot Singh,John Davidson
Publisher : Mendon Cottage Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781370122011

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How to Affair Proof Your Marriage - Tips for Men by Dueep Jyot Singh,John Davidson Pdf

Table of Contents Introduction Faced with “Temptation” Dare You Call Her Game? It Is Possible I Am Really so Attractive in Her Eyes… Another Side effect of promiscuous behavior – STDs But Life is So Boring with Her… Conclusion Author Bio Publisher This book is for all those men, who are thinking of getting into a long-term commitment with the women of their choice, and consider marriage to be something for keeps. This is going to give you plenty of good advice, guidance, and tips, on how you can be faithful, and make sure that the shadow of a sleazy affair does not enter the threshold of your happy home.

Author : Robert Westbrook
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645400080

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Blue Moon by Robert Westbrook Pdf

Alone on a wilderness trek in the New Mexico mountains, Lakota P.I. Howard Moon Deer meets a barefoot, half-crazed astrophysicist who claims he’s been abducted by a flying saucer and has just returned from the planet Klizmor in possession of an illusive equation from their advanced civilization: the Theory of Everything. Is he a madman or part of a clever fraud? He’s not just anyone, Howie soon discovers. He’s Dr. Grisha Bloom, a famous Nobel Prize winning physicist, and when he’s murdered Howie finds himself immersed in a dangerous world of UFO conspiracies, military secrets, and a group of cutthroat astronomers who are competing to claim credit for the discovery of a new subatomic particle, the Blue Moon Quark. BLUE MOON, the 6th Howard Moon Deer mystery, takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the dark side of New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb, where science and fakery converge, and huge government contracts dangle for those brilliant enough—or ruthless enough—to reach for the stars. "Fans of Hillerman will love this unique and quirky detective duo."—Leslie Glass, bestselling author of Tracking Time "Westbrook...possesses a masterful sense of narration."—The Washington Post Book World "A racy and readable writer."—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Katherine Garbera
Publisher : Silhouette
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426874222

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Her High-Stakes Affair by Katherine Garbera Pdf

Of all men for director Raine Montgomery to be attracted to! Scott Rivers was not only a professional gambler, but the man she suspected had bet $50,000 he'd bed her before they finished taping the Vegas poker showdown. No one--not even rich, charming, sexy Scott--was going to trump her! Creating her own game, Raine would pretend to fall for Scott, surrendering to his stolen kisses and secret rendezvous. But the allure of the forbidden proved irresistible, and Raine feared the worst. Was she about to lose the biggest high-stakes gamble of her life?

Author : Lee H. Hamilton,Daniel K. Inouye
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788126024

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Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton,Daniel K. Inouye Pdf

Contents: The Report: executive summary; Central America; the arms sales to Iran; exposure and concealment; the enterprise; conclusions and recommendations. Also contains the Minority report: the foreign affairs powers of the Constitution and the Iran-Contra Affair; Nicaragua; Iran; disclosure and investigations; putting Congress' house in order; and recommendations. Extensive appendices contain additional views of several Representatives and Senators.