The Death Factory

Author : Greg Iles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062336682

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The Death Factory by Greg Iles Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy—Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—comes this e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt from Natchez Burning. Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him. When a heart attack sends Penn's father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, Tom denies ever making the request—keeping his secrets for another day. The emergency hurls Penn back to a chilling case in Houston, where he worked in a DA's office known as the "death factory," which sent more killers to death row than any other in America. While Penn cares for his ailing wife, a tormented forensic technician brings him evidence of a crime lab in chaos, throwing past convictions into doubt and begging Penn to prevent an imminent travesty of justice. With the desperation of a man fighting death in his own home, Penn must find a way to bring the machinery of the death factory to a halt.

Author : Bernard Mapalala
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-29
Category : Readers
ISBN : 0435892428

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The Death Factory by Bernard Mapalala Pdf

One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa. In this story, when a factory is built near his peaceful village, Asabea wants to know whether it will bring wealth - or destruction.

Author : Ota Kraus,Erich Kulka
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009379788

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The Death Factory by Ota Kraus,Erich Kulka Pdf

Author : Sheldon H. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134827510

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Factories of Death by Sheldon H. Harris Pdf

Fresh evidence from newly released sources clarifies the shocking story of Japanese human experiments in Manchuria during the War, and reveals the true extent of the subsequent US cover-up.

Author : Nate Taylor
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792787227

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Willy Wonka & the Death Factory Part 2 by Nate Taylor Pdf

Following the events of "Willy Wonka & The Death Factory: The Golden Ticket," Charlie returns home to find that he isn't the boy he once was.

Author : Greg Iles
Publisher : William Morrow Impulse
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006233669X

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The Death Factory by Greg Iles Pdf

Death is the end, and if a man doesn't speak before it silences him, then his deepest secrets go with him. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes an e-original novella featuring former prosecutor Penn Cage, a story of family secrets and justice denied, plus an excerpt from his new novel, Natchez Burning. When a heart attack sends Penn's father, Tom Cage, to the ER, Tom begs that his son be brought to his side to hear a dying declaration. But when Penn arrives, Tom denies ever making the request—keeping his secrets for another day. The emergency hurls Penn back to a chilling case in Houston, where he worked in a DA's office known as the "death factory," which sent more killers to death row than any other in America. While Penn cares for his ailing wife, a tormented forensic technician brings him evidence of a crime lab in chaos, throwing past convictions into doubt and begging Penn to prevent an imminent travesty of justice. With the desperation of a man fighting death in his own home, Penn must find a way to bring the machinery of the death factory to a halt. Included here is an extended sneak preview of Natchez Burning, the first installment in an epic trilogy featuring Penn Cage.

Author : Alexandra Midal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783956795435

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The Murder Factory by Alexandra Midal Pdf

The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods. In 1896, at the age of 35, Henry Howard Holmes, whose real name was Herman Webster Mudget, became the first serial killer in the United States, confessing to dozens of crimes. To carry out his activities quietly, he built in Chicago a building so vast that his neighbors called it the “Château.” Located just a stone's throw from the most sophisticated slaughterhouses in the world, lethal, practical, and comfortable, Holmes's building was equipped with the latest innovations. A rational, cozy masterpiece of crime dressed in slippers, Holmes's project fit perfectly into the functionalist project of the modern world. In The Murder Factory, Alexandra Midal examines the almost simultaneous emergence of the industrial revolution and the figure of the serial killer. Far from being a coincidence, it marks the rationality of new production methods—of which the assembly line and serial murder are two expressions. In the Holmes case, an antihero of modern history can shed light on the treatment of living things brought about by this economic, mechanical, and cultural revolution. H. H. Holmes's confessions, published in the Philadelphia Enquirer just before his execution in April 1896, follow Midal's text.

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345809094

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The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis Pdf

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life--and, shockingly, love--in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul--it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at it. The courtiers couldn't look at it. A chestful of treasure was offered to anyone who could look at it for 60 seconds without turning away. And no one could. The Zone of Interest is a love story with a violently unromantic setting. Can love survive the mirror? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? In a novel powered by both wit and pathos, Martin Amis excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul.

Author : Will Self
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802193377

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How the Dead Live by Will Self Pdf

Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet—a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish. Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters—lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful Natasha, a junkie—buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, Lily slides in and out of the present, taking us on a surreal, opinionated trip through the stages of a lifetime of lust and rage. A career girl in the 1940s, a sexed-up, tippling adulteress in the 1950s and ‘60s, a divorced PR flak in the 1970s and ‘80s, Lily presents us with a portrait of America and England over sixty years of riotous and unreal change. And then it’s over: Lily catches a cab with the aboriginal wizard Phar Lap Jones, her guide to the shockingly banal world of the dead. It’s a world that is surreal but familiar, where she again works in PR and rediscovers how great smoking is, where her cohabitants include Rude Boy, the son who died at age nine and now swears a blue streak, and three eyeless, murmuring wraiths, the Fats—composed of the pounds, literally the whole selves, she lost and gained over her lifetime. As Lily settles into her nonexistence, the most difficult challenge for this staunchly difficult woman is how to understand that she’s dead, and how to leave the rest behind. How the Dead Live is an unforgettable portrait of the human condition, the struggle with life and with death. It’s a novel that will disturb and provoke, the work, in the words of one British reviewer, “of a novelist writing at the height of his powers.”

Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476750248

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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Pdf

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath. Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.

Author : Hiroko Oyamada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228862

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The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada Pdf

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work—days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while—it could be weeks or years—the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here? With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid—and sometimes surreal—portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.

Author : Greg Iles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743292504

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Third Degree by Greg Iles Pdf

Pregnant with another man's child, Elizabeth Pike returns home to find her husband, already distraught over an IRS audit, with a letter from her lover and a gun in his hands.

Author : Greg Iles
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062359742

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Natchez Burning by Greg Iles Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet and his first in five years—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage. Growing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor and pillar of the community is accused of murdering Violet Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father, even though Tom, stubbornly evoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses to speak up in his own defense. The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past—into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. With the aid of a local friend and reporter privy to some of Natchez's oldest and deadliest secrets, Penn follows a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one—black or white, young or old, brave or not—is ever truly safe. With everything on the line, including his own life, Penn must decide how far he will go to protect those he loves . . . and see justice done, once and for all. Rich in Southern atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, Natchez Burning marks the brilliant return of a genuine American master of suspense. Tense and disturbing, it is the most explosive, exciting, sexy, and ambitious story Greg Iles has written yet.

Author : William L. Bamberger,Bill Bamberger,Cathy N. Davidson
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0393319229

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Closing by William L. Bamberger,Bill Bamberger,Cathy N. Davidson Pdf

The story of the White Furniture Company--a century-old family-owned business that was bought out by a huge corporation and later closed--puts a human face on the economic realities of the 1990s. 92 photos, 31 in color. National TV & radio features.

Author : Joe Domenici
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429990387

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The Death Factory by Joe Domenici Pdf

Old Army buddies Fred Custer and Green Beret Hickey team up to rescue Jim Simpson, the beloved son of an old colleague. Jim's job was to handle the finances of a Halliburton-like company, but he discovers much to his dismay that the company is rotten to the core and people who should be dedicated to the mission are in fact dedicated to lining their own pockets. Now a whole lot of money has gone missing along with Jim. Custer and Hickey end up in Cairo, where they discover a dark torture prison deep within the heart of the Egyptian desert, nicknamed "The Death Factory." Action movie fans and military thriller readers will love this blend of fire-power, non-stop forward motion, and suspense.