The Precinct With The Golden Arm

Author : Dennis Broe
Publisher : Pathmark Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Precinct With The Golden Arm by Dennis Broe Pdf

Calamitous Corruption: The Harry Palmer LA Trilogy Book 3: The Precinct With The Golden Arm “A superbly plotted, Chandleresque historical Noir”–Lilja Sigurðardóttir, “the Queen of Scandinavian Crime Fiction,” author of the trilogy Snare, Trap, Cage and of four financial thrillers, the latest of which is Dark As Night “Private detective Harry Palmer, a distant relative of Philip Marlow and Lew Archer, takes us back to the LA of the 1940s in an exciting story with an impressive accumulation of details from the backstreets of that city” – Gunnar Staalesen, who Jo Nesbo called “the Norwegian Chandler,” writer of the Varg Veum series “Dennis Broe compels us to assert that novelists, like himself—and not just poets—are the unacknowledged legislators: for in this masterpiece, he poetically provides a scintillating dissection of capitalism, L.A. style”—Gerald Horne, historian and author of Class Struggle in Hollywood “…the seamy world of the LAPD,…the Mexican-American community in Boyle Heights…the Ku Klux Klan and the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry…combine and collide in a cleverly integrated story that will keep a reader fully engaged to the last page and beyond”–Eric Gordon, LA Progressive “An ingeniously plotted book that weaves its plots together well, and gives us another fascinating look at mid-century Los Angeles”—Ellen Clair Lamb, assistant editor Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels “The Precinct With The Golden Arm outlines an LA teeming with corruption end to end, and one–same as it ever was–not that different from the city today with many of the same problems still unresolved and thus recurring”–Crime Time In his third encounter with the seamy world of the LA power structure of the 1940s, disgraced ex-homicide detective Harry Palmer tangles with the LAPD as it attempts to shed its aura of corruption while clamping down on the Mexican American community of Boyle Heights in the wake of the Zoot Suit Rebellion. Lurking in the background is a burgeoning Big Pharma industry as these various threads interconnect and lead Harry into a maze of sex and drugs as he confronts his own tarnished past.

Author : Dennis Broe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1088128319

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The Precinct With The Golden Arm by Dennis Broe Pdf

The Precinct With The Golden Arm "A superbly plotted, Chandleresque historical Noir"-Lilja Sigurðardóttir, "the Queen of Scandinavian Crime Fiction," author of the trilogy Snare, Trap, Cage and of four financial thrillers, including Dark As Night "Private detective Harry Palmer, a distant relative of Philip Marlow and Lew Archer, takes us back to the LA of the 1940s in an exciting story with an impressive accumulation of details from the backstreets of that city" - Gunnar Staalesen, who Jo Nesbo called "the Norwegian Chandler," writer of the Varg Veum series "Dennis Broe compels us to assert that novelists, like himself-and not just poets-are the unacknowledged legislators: for in this masterpiece, he poetically provides a scintillating dissection of capitalism, L.A. style"-Gerald Horne, Class Struggle in Hollywood "...the seamy world of the LAPD, ...the Mexican-American community in Boyle Heights...the Ku Klux Klan and the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry...combine and collide in a cleverly integrated story that will keep a reader fully engaged to the last page and beyond"-Eric Gordon, LA Progressive "An ingeniously plotted book that weaves its plots together well, and gives us another fascinating look at mid-century Los Angeles"-Ellen Clair Lamb, assistant editor Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels "The Precinct With The Golden Arm outlines an LA teeming with corruption end to end, and one-same as it ever was-not that different from the city today with many of the same problems still unresolved and thus recurring"-Crime Time "Dennis Broe's trilogy is a compelling read. Readers will be moved and angered by the crushing odds against the Mexican migrants Harry defends. Broe's explanations of the politics of 1948 are...relevant to our own times. The rise of racism, the pervasion of police violence, the attacks on workers trying to defend their living standards, ...the drive to war, all these familiar problems were weapons already being wielded 75 years ago by a ruthless ruling class"-Mike Eaude, Shiny New Books In his third encounter with the seamy world of the LA power structure of the 1940s, disgraced ex-homicide detective Harry Palmer tangles with the LAPD as it attempts to shed its aura of corruption while clamping down on the Mexican American community of Boyle Heights in the wake of the Zoot Suit Rebellion. Lurking in the background is a burgeoning Big Pharma industry as these various threads interconnect and lead Harry into a maze of sex and drugs as he confronts his own tarnished past. 

Author : Nelson Algren
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609803599

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The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren Pdf

A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems. The literary critic Malcolm Cowley called The Man with the Golden Arm "Algren's defense of the individual," while Carl Sandburg wrote of its "strange midnight dignity." A literary tour de force, here is a novel unlike any other, one in which drug addiction, poverty, and human failure somehow suggest a defense of human dignity and a reason for hope.

Author : J. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137482242

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Framing Drug Use by J. Fitzgerald Pdf

This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime.

Author : James J. Martine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : American fiction
ISBN : PSU:000019311685

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American Novelists, 1910-1945: Louis Adamic-Vardis Fisher by James J. Martine Pdf

Contains biographical sketches of the men and women who have done their most important work in the novel during the period from 1910-1945.

Author : James J. Martine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UGA:32108011285080

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American Novelists, 1910-1945 by James J. Martine Pdf

Contains biographical sketches of the men and women who have done their most important work in the novel during the period from 1910-1945.

Author : Douglas L. Rathgeb
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786487509

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The Making of Rebel Without a Cause by Douglas L. Rathgeb Pdf

In 1954, troubled director Nicholas Ray chatted at a dinner party about his controversial plan for a film about middle-class juvenile delinquents. He was told of a book, written by a prison psychologist and owned by Warner Bros., called Rebel Without a Cause. Though he was initially unimpressed, Ray adapted the book into his own screenplay and Warner Bros. hired him to direct what would become a classic. From the backgrounds of the many players to the pre-production, production, and post-production of the film, this complete history recounts every aspect of Rebel Without a Cause from its rudiments to the 1955 Academy Awards: the selection of cast and crew, legal fights, changing screenwriters and the many variations of the story, location scouting, auditions, script readings, difficulties with the censors, romances and fights, the editing, test screenings, and, of course, the death of its star. Dozens of intimate anecdotes, from wardrobe decisions to James Dean’s pranks, add rich detail. An epilogue discusses the possible sequels, rights conflicts, documentaries, musicals, and spin-off attempts, and offers concluding words on the cast and crew.

Author : James J. Martine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UFL:35051102500214

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Dictionary of Literary Biography by James J. Martine Pdf

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 5135 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351765206

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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell Pdf

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.

Author : Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 21043 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317372516

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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor Pdf

Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

Author : Robert Colling
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781796099607

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The Continuum Dealer: the Empaths by Robert Colling Pdf

In the fourth installment of The Continuum Dealer series, The seven known empaths in the universe, led by Raquel, are no longer in hiding. They have taken their business of healing and made it into a healing business, with Lynne as the one holdout. Sloan, Ethan, Lee, and Hannah are on a collison course headed toward someone's ultimate end. Revenge dominates this engrossing installment as the adventure continues.

Author : Tom Vater
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000347858

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The Man With The Golden Mind by Tom Vater Pdf

Detective Maier has a new case. This time it is a cold case: investigating the death of Julia Rendel's father, an East German culture attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set off, his client is kidnapped right out of his arms. Maier follows Julia's trail to the Laotian capital Vientiane, where he learns different parties, including his missing client, are searching for a legendary CIA file crammed with Cold War secrets. The real prize, however, is the file's author: someone codenamed Weltmeister, a former US and Vietnamese spy and assassin no one has seen for a quarter century. Racing against time, Maier needs to dig deep into the past - including his own - in order to make sense of the present. The second book in Tom Vater's Detective Maier Mysteries series, The Man With The Golden Mind is an action-packed thriller with plenty of sex, drugs, assassinations and double-crosses. This book contains graphic violence and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

Author : John M. Samson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780684829647

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Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Book 9 by John M. Samson Pdf

Culled from out-of-print puzzle books, and edited by the kings of crosswords, this collection contains puzzles of varying sizes and levels of difficulty. They have been revised and updated to satisfy the needs and knowledge of today's solvers. The pages are perforated for easy tearing out.

Author : Nelson Algren
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1583225501

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The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren Pdf

As rock and roll novelist Tom Carson writes in his introduction, "The Neon Wilderness is the pivotal book of Nelson Algren's career--the one which bid a subdued but determined farewell to everything that had earlier made him no more than just another good writer, and inaugurated the idiosyncratic, bedevilled, cantankerously poetic sensibility that would see him ranked among the few literary originals of his times." Algren's classic 1947 short story collection is the pure vein Algren would mine for all his subsequent novels and stories. The stories in this collection are literary triumphs that "don't fade away." Among the stories included here are "A Bottle of Milk for Mother," about a Chicago youth being cornered for a murder, and "The Face on the Barrome Floor," in which a legless man pummels another man nearly to death--the seeds that would grow into the novel Never Come Morning. Algren's World War II stories whose final expression would be in the novel The Man with the Golden Arm are also part of this collection. "So Help Me," Algren's first published work, is here. Other stories include, "The Captain Has Bad Dreams," in which Algren first introduced the character of the blameless captain who feels such a heavy burden of guilt and wonders why the criminal offenders he sees seem to feel no guilt at all. And then there is "Design for Departure," in which a young woman drifting into hooking and addiction sees her own dreaminess outlasting her hopes.

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108047333

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The Golden Bough by James George Frazer Pdf

The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.