The Prisoner

Author : B.A. Paris
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250274151

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The Prisoner by B.A. Paris Pdf

With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with THE PRISONER—a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions. A USA Today Bestseller! Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne. But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned? In the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Therapist, multimillion-copy bestseller B. A. Paris is back with a gripping new suspense novel.

Author : Hwang Sok-yong
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839760839

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The Prisoner by Hwang Sok-yong Pdf

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject--of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang moves between his imprisonment and his life--as a boy in Pyongyang, as a young activist protesting South Korea's military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad--and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century.

Author : Omar Shahid Hamid
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628725476

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The Prisoner by Omar Shahid Hamid Pdf

An international literary sensation, this chilling thriller “exposes. . . a world so dark that readers will come away terrified” (Wall Street Journal, India). An American journalist has been kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, days before the American president is due to visit. Those responsible have promised to execute him on video on Christmas Day. With no other leads, Constantine D’Souza, a Christian police officer, must get his former colleague Akbar Khan, a rogue cop imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, to help track down the journalist. But to do so, he has to navigate the streets of Karachi, where police corruption is a way of life and political motives are never what they seem. Caught between the United Front—the militant ruling party—and the Pakistani Intelligence Agencies, D’Souza is in a race against time to save a man’s life and the honor of the nation. Modeled on true events, The Prisoner is a fast-paced thriller that brings the byzantine politics and the moral ambiguities of justice in Pakistan to life. With a gritty authenticity based on personal experience, Omar Hamid reveals a society where corruption and extremism are commonplace, and the line between the good guys and the bad guys is never as clear as we would like. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Alex Berenson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698407510

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The Prisoner by Alex Berenson Pdf

To unmask a CIA mole, John Wells must resume his old undercover identity as an al Qaeda jihadi—and hope he can survive it—in this cutting-edge novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is the most dangerous mission of John Wells’s career. Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable—passing messages to ISIS, alerting them to planned operations. Finding out the mole’s identity without alerting him, however, will be very hard, and to accomplish it, Wells will have to do something he thought he’d left behind forever. He will have to reassume his former identity as an al Qaeda jihadi, get captured, and go undercover to befriend an ISIS prisoner in a secret Bulgarian prison. Many years before, Wells was the only American agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda, but times have changed drastically. The terrorist organizations have multiplied: gotten bigger, crueler, more ambitious and powerful. Wells knows it may well be his death sentence. But there is no one else.

Author : Diane Schoemperlen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443434225

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This Is Not My Life by Diane Schoemperlen Pdf

From the Governor General’s Award winning author of Forms of Devotion, Our Lady of the Lost and Found and By the Book “Never once in my life had I dreamed of being in bed with a convicted killer.” For almost six turbulent years, award-winning writer Diane Schoemperlen was involved with a prison inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. The relationship surprised no one more than her. How do you fall in love with a man with a violent past? How do you date someone who is in prison? This Is Not My Life is the story of the romance between Diane and Shane—how they met and fell in love, how they navigated passes and parole and the obstacles facing a long-term prisoner attempting to return to society, and how, eventually, things fell apart. While no relationship takes place in a vacuum, this is never more true than when that relationship is with a federal inmate. In this candid, often wry, sometimes disturbing memoir, Schoemperlen takes us inside this complex and difficult relationship as she journeys through the prison system with Shane. Not only did this relationship enlarge her capacity for both empathy and compassion, but it also forced her to more deeply examine herself.

Author : Peter Milligan
Publisher : Titan Comics
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781785867798

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The Prisoner (complete collection) by Peter Milligan Pdf

Welcome to The Village. MI5 agent Breen has been ordered to break into the most secure and secret intelligence location in the world, codenamed The Village, and either rescue or liquidate a fellow agent – and lover – Carey, before vital information she carries can be extracted. Subsequently, he awakens to find himself renamed Number Six, and a prisoner of The Village and its mysterious controller known only as Number Two. Now Number Six is about to discover that when it comes to The Village, nothing is what it seems and that reality is fluid as he struggles to unwrap the mystery of The Village and the secrets behind its true architect. Written by Peter Milligan (‘Shade The Changing Man’, ‘Enigma’, ‘Face’, ‘Rogan Gosh’, ‘X-Statix’, ‘Dan Dare’ and ‘Hellblazer’) and drawn by Colin Lorimer (‘The X-Files’, ‘Hellraiser’, ‘Blackout’ and ‘Millennium’). This critically acclaimed, all-new story sees a return to The Village, made famous by the classic 1960s TV show ‘The Prisoner’, starring Patrick McGoohan. Collects The Prisoner #1-4. “With a well-crafted narrative and sharp network, this issue picks up the torch from the classic series… 9 out of 10.” – The GWW “You are Number Six. I am Number One. And this is 9 out of 10.” – Comicosity “Brings the mystery of The Village into the 21st Century.” – Broken Frontier

Author : Michelle Berry
Publisher : Wolsak and Wynn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Guilt
ISBN : 1928088430

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The Prisoner and the Chaplain by Michelle Berry Pdf

In the last twelve hours of his life, a death-row prisoner relays his story to a chaplain.

Author : Will Bardenwerper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501117855

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The Prisoner in His Palace by Will Bardenwerper Pdf

In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides “a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power” (USA TODAY). The “captivating” (Military Times) The Prisoner in His Palace invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Shortly after being deployed to Iraq, they learn their assignment: guarding Saddam Hussein in the months before his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their “high value detainee and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions—about the judicial process, Saddam’s character, and the morality of modern war. Although the young soldiers’ increasingly intimate conversations with the once-feared dictator never lead them to doubt his responsibility for unspeakable crimes, the men do discover surprising new layers to his psyche that run counter to the media’s portrayal of him. Woven from firsthand accounts provided by many of the American guards, government officials, interrogators, scholars, spies, lawyers, family members, and victims, The Prisoner in His Palace shows two Saddams coexisting in one person: the defiant tyrant who uses torture and murder as tools, and a shrewd but contemplative prisoner who exhibits surprising affection, dignity, and courage in the face of looming death. In this thought-provoking narrative, Saddam, known as the “man without a conscience,” gets many of those around him to examine theirs. “A singular study exhibiting both military duty and human compassion” (Kirkus Reviews), The Prisoner in His Palace grants us “a behind-the-scenes look at history that’s nearly impossible to put down…a mesmerizing glimpse into the final moments of a brutal tyrant’s life” (BookPage).

Author : Dean Motter,Mark Askwith
Publisher : Titan Comics
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781787731776

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The Prisoner: Shattered Visage by Dean Motter,Mark Askwith Pdf

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri; min-height: 14.0px} Welcome to the Village… Set twenty years after the final episode of The Prisoner television series, Shattered Visage follows former secret service agent Alice Drake who awakens one day to find herself washed up on the shores of THE VILLAGE, shipwrecked and marooned, following a mysterious storm. In the most derelict and deserted Village she stumbles across the original NUMBER SIX, now an old man, who is still locked into a decades-old conflict with his old nemesis NUMBER TWO. Meanwhile, back in London, conflicting intelligence agencies fight to gain control of The Village, and the deadly secret lying at its very core. Written by Dean Motter (Mr. X, Wolverine, Grendel: Red, White and Black, Will Eisner’s The Spirit and Batman: Black & White) and Mark Askwith (Batman, Justice League International), and drawn by Dean Motter. This is the critically acclaimed, officially authorized sequel to the ground-breaking classic 1960s cult TV show The Prisoner. This collection also includes an introduction written by Abigail McKern, daughter of Leo McKern, who played the role of NUMBER TWO. “Shattered Visage is a fitting sequel to The Prisoner” – Ferretbrain.com “It ‘had me at hello’ and gets my highest recommendation.” – blogintomystery.com “As good at it gets.” – the-night-cruiser-blogspot.com

Author : Jacques Goldstyn
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1771472510

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Letters to a Prisoner by Jacques Goldstyn Pdf

A wordless story about the power of words

Author : Chris Clarkson,Melissa Munn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487538453

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Disruptive Prisoners by Chris Clarkson,Melissa Munn Pdf

Disruptive Prisoners reconstitutes the history of Canada’s federal prison system in the mid-twentieth century through a process of collective biography – one involving prisoners, administrators, prison reformers, and politicians. This social history relies on extensive archival research and access to government documents, but more importantly, uses the penal press materials created by prisoners themselves and an interview with one of the founding penal press editors to provide a unique and unprecedented analysis. Disruptive Prisoners is grounded in the lived experiences of men who were incarcerated in federal penitentiaries in Canada and argues that they were not merely passive recipients of intervention. Evidence indicates that prisoners were active agents of change who advocated for and resisted the initiatives that were part of Canada’s "New Deal in Corrections." While prisoners are silent in other criminological and historical texts, here they are central figures: the juxtaposition of their voices with the official administrative, parliamentary, and government records challenges the dominant tropes of progress and provides a more nuanced and complicated reframing of the post-Archambault Commission era. The use of an alternative evidential base, the commitment of the authors to integrating subaltern perspectives, and the first-hand accounts by prisoners of their experiences of incarceration makes this book a highly readable and engaging glimpse behind the bars of Canada’s federal prisons.

Author : Hwang Sok-yong
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839760860

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The Prisoner by Hwang Sok-yong Pdf

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject--of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang moves between his imprisonment and his life--as a boy in Pyongyang, as a young activist protesting South Korea's military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad--and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century.

Author : Stephen King,Robin Furth,Peter David
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781982135300

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The Prisoner by Stephen King,Robin Furth,Peter David Pdf

Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain—and the world of the Dark Tower…presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With these unforgettable words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King’s iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world—a world that “moved on,” as they say. In this desolate reality—a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and yet one that mirrors our own in frightening ways—Roland is on a spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate and somehow save the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower. Now, in the first in the graphic novel series adaptation Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, originally published by Marvel Comics in single-issue form and creatively overseen by Stephen King himself, the full story of Roland’s saga continues. Sumptuously drawn by Piotr Kowalski, Jonathan Marks, Juanan Ramirez, and Cory Hamscher, plotted by longtime Stephen King expert Robin Furth, and scripted by New York Times bestselling author Peter David, The Drawing of the Three adaptation is an extraordinary and terrifying journey—ultimately introducing a generation of new readers to Stephen King’s modern literary classic The Dark Tower, while giving longtime fans thrilling adventures transformed from his blockbuster novels.

Author : X. B. Saintine (pseud. [i.e. Joseph Xavier Boniface.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000665933

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Picciola. The Prisoner of Fenestrella, Or, Captivity Captive by X. B. Saintine (pseud. [i.e. Joseph Xavier Boniface.]) Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03178500U

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The Prisoner's Antecedents, Statistics Concerning the Previous Life of Offenders Committed to State and Federal Prisons and Reformatories by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf