The Policeman

Author : Bethan Roberts
Publisher : Random House
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448130986

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My Policeman by Bethan Roberts Pdf

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES** This love is all-consuming It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed. 'A sensitive, sweeping novel' VOGUE 'Tense, romantic, smart...I loved it. Devoured it!' RUSSELL T. DAVIES 'A powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self' VANITY FAIR 'A moving story of longing and frustration' OBSERVER

Author : Ben H. Winters
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594745775

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The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters Pdf

"[The] weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."—John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? Ebook contains an excerpt from the anticipated second book in the trilogy, Countdown City.

Author : Maureen E. Cain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317421450

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Society and the Policeman's Role by Maureen E. Cain Pdf

The role of the policeman in the community and attitudes towards the police are now matters of active public concern. In this important and enlightening study, first published in 1973, Maureen Cain gives an account of how the police operate in the United Kingdom. Her book will be of great value to sociologists, criminologists and policemen alike.

Author : Linda Hartinian,Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0871290499

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Linda Hartinian,Philip K. Dick Pdf

>On October 11 the television star Jason Taverner is so famous that 30 million viewers eagerly watch his prime-time show. On October 12 Jason Taverner is not a has-been but a never-was -- a man who has lost not only his audience but all proof of his existence. And in the claustrophobic betrayal state of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, loss of proof is synonyms with loss of life. Taverner races to solve the riddle of his disappearance", immerses us in a horribly plausible Philip K. Dick United States in which everyone -- from a waiflike forger of identity cards to a surgically altered pleasure -- informs on everyone else, a world in which omniscient police have something to hide. His bleakly beautiful novel bores into the deepest bedrock self and plants a stick of dynamite at its center.

Author : Charles Burdett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015060583880

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The Gambler, Or, The Policeman's Story by Charles Burdett Pdf

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572253

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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Altered reality, genetic enhancement and drugs combine to create one of the most popular and enduring science fiction novels from award-winning novelist Philip K. Dick.

Author : Kate Thompson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780061975745

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The New Policeman by Kate Thompson Pdf

Who knows where the time goes? There never seems to be enough time in Kinvara, or anywhere else in Ireland for that matter. When J.J.'s mother says time's what she really wants for her birthday, J.J. decides to find her some. He's set himself up for an impossible task . . . until a neighbor reveals a secret. There's a place where time stands still—at least, it's supposed to. J.J. can make the journey there, but he'll have to vanish from his own life to do so. Can J.J. find the leak between the two worlds? Will a shocking rumor about his family's past come back to haunt him? And what does it all have to do with the village's new policeman . . . ?

Author : O. Henry
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241448892

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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories by O. Henry Pdf

O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writing career ranges from New York apartments to the cattle-lands of Texas, taking in con men, clerks, hustlers, shop assistants, tramps and tricksters. They all highlight his ironic, comic eye, his gift for evoking speech and setting, and his unique approach to life's quirks of fate. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia,United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 3
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Fire fighters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045215931

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Amendments to the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia,United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 3 Pdf

Considers H.R. 3735 and related H.R. 2749 and H.R. 2750, to amend the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act to make benefits added in 1957 applicable to former members of the D.C. Police and Fire Departments, National Park Police, White House Police and Secret Service.

Author : Maj Sjöwall,Per Wahlöö
Publisher : Orion
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000243368

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The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall,Per Wahlöö Pdf

On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs him a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad suspects otherwise. This apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of Beck2s best detectives--and he, surely, would not have been riding that lethal bus without a reason, Beck retraces his steps and chases year-old clues to a crime long thought unsolvable.

Author : Frank McClanahan
Publisher : McClanahan Book
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1878624385

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The Little Policeman by Frank McClanahan Pdf

Will has a uniform. a toy gun, and badge and looks forward to being a police officer.

Author : Flann O'Brien
Publisher : Pan
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0330241583

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The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien Pdf

With the publication of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press now has all of O'Brien's fiction back in print.

Author : Stevyn Colgan
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783522347

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Why Did the Policeman Cross the Road? by Stevyn Colgan Pdf

Can lollipops reduce antisocial behaviour? Could wizards prevent street gambling? Do fake bus stops protect pensioners? Can dog shows help reduce murder rates? Stevyn Colgan spent thirty years in the police service—twelve of them as part of the Problem Solving Unit, a special team with an extraordinary brief: to solve problems of crime and disorder that were unresponsive to traditional policing. They could try anything as long as it wasn’t illegal (or immoral), wouldn’t bring the police into disrepute, and didn’t cost very much. The result is this extraordinary collection of innovative and imaginative approaches to crime prevention, showing us that any problem can be solved if we can just identify its underlying roots. In Why Did the Policeman Cross the Road? you’ll learn how bees can prevent elephant stampedes and what tiger farms and sex workers have in common. You’ll read about killer snakes in African cornfields and cholera epidemics in Soho. You’ll come to appreciate the advantages of sticking gum on celebrities’ faces, why the colour of the changing room might decide a football match, and how eating lobsters may help to save their lives. This book is an amusing, insightful and sometimes controversial celebration of good policing and problem solving that reaches beyond law enforcement and into everyday life.

Author : Police and Sheriffs Association of North America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : UCAL:$B154892

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The Policeman's Handbook of Law by Police and Sheriffs Association of North America Pdf

Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062124586

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon Pdf

For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his heritage. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.