The Razor Gate

Author : Sean Cregan
Publisher : Headline
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755358113

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The Razor Gate by Sean Cregan Pdf

The second brilliant novel from the author of The Levels - Sean Cregan. In Newport City men and women walk the streets, their lives literally ticking away. The Clocks are victims of a new serial crime, their existence kept secret by the authorities for fear of panic spreading through the city. Kidnapped by the mysterious Curator and subjected to the Curse - a medical procedure which ensures a fatal drug will be released into their nervous system one year after implantation - they are headed for certain death. But now they are fighting back. A suicidal Clock, determined to bring their plight to the public's attention, has detonated a bomb. Journalist Maya Cassinelli, whose ex-boyfriend is one of the dead, and cop Charlie Garrett, whose Clock girlfriend is about to die, are on a desperate search for answers, closely shadowed by members of the elite Foundation, who want control of the Curse's revolutionary and lucrative bio-technology. With everyone hunting the Cure, who will find it first? The Clocks are ticking...

Author : Kunle Esan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456802448

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The Razor by Kunle Esan Pdf

Author : Peter May
Publisher : riverrun
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784295066

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The Night Gate by Peter May Pdf

THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERS AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021 'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse 'No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders - the Mona Lisa. Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre, she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and Göring. What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings. The Night Gate spans three generations, taking us from war-torn London, the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, Berlin and Vichy France, to the deadly enemy facing the world in 2020. In his latest novel, Peter May shows why he is one of the great contemporary writers of crime fiction. LOVED THE NIGHT GATE? Read the first book in the acclaimed China Thrillers, THE FIREMAKER LOVE PETER MAY? Order his thrilling standalone, A SILENT DEATH

Author : John A. Rush
Publisher : Frog Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781623174835

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The Twelve Gates by John A. Rush Pdf

In The Twelve Gates, clinical anthropologist John Rush embarks on a spellbinding journey through death rituals in various cultures, centering on the ancient Egyptian philosophy of death and resurrection. The first part of the book provides an overview of different rituals, encouraging readers to confront their feelings about death and to reevaluate their lives. The author details his own experiences preparing for death, including a painful tattooing process inspired by the ancient Egyptian Books of the Netherworld. He then guides readers through the Twelve Gates of the Underworld, symbolic ritual stages during which they can figuratively experience death and rebirth. A set of full-color tarot cards, designed by the author, is included as an aid in passing through each of the Gates. These ancient rituals, performed by pharaohs and priests for thousands of years, help ease the way toward a peaceful, conscious death.

Author : J. Barton Mitchell
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765387943

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The Razor by J. Barton Mitchell Pdf

J. Barton Mitchell's The Razor is a riveting science fiction thriller about a man struggling to survive the chaos on a prison planet. Brilliant engineer Marcus Flynn has been sentenced to 11-H37 alongside the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals. A hard labor prison planet better known as the Razor, where life expectancy is short and all roads are dead ends. At least until the Lost Prophet goes active... In a few hours, prison guards and staff are evacuated, the prisoners are left to die, and dark mysteries begin to surface. Only Flynn has the skills and knowledge to unravel them, but he will have to rely on the most unlikely of allies--killers, assassins, pirates and smugglers. If they can survive each other they just might survive the Razor...and claim it for their own. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Carl W. Breihan
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1455611271

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Ride the Razor's Edge by Carl W. Breihan Pdf

Follow the legendary adventures of two of the Wild West’s most notorious outlaws in this historical biography. Like their partners in crime Frank and Jesse James, the Younger Brothers have been glorified in the lore of the Wild West. Famous for their daring train and bank robberies, and immortalized in the film The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, the Younger brothers—Cole, James, John, and Bob—came to symbolize the grit and cunning of the nineteenth century frontier. Ride the Razor’s Edge chronicles their adventures while placing them in their wider historical context. From fighting in the Civil War alongside William Quantrill and his band of guerrillas to their famous raid in Lawrence, Kansas, to their first bank robbery in Liberty, Missouri, the Youngers became heroes of the people—and foes of their state. Using family archives, personal letters, and interviews with surviving family, author Carl W. Breihan presents an authoritative and captivating story from their days with the Confederacy to Cole’s and James’s years in a Minnesota prison, and Cole Younger's fight to adapt to life after his pardon.

Author : USA Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1850 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057002656387

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by USA Patent Office Pdf

Author : Harry Marlin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 981 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426994968

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I'll Get By by Harry Marlin Pdf

Author Harry Marlin met everything in life head on. This collection of his writing explores a lifetime's experiences-growing up in tiny Blanket, Texas, during the Great Depression; flying combat missions over Germany during World War II; and managing life's perplexities. Called the "Will Rogers of Central Texas," Marlin wrote a weekly column for the Brownwood Bulletin for eleven years. I'll Get By presents the first volume of compilations of his best stories taking a humorous look at a plethora of topics. "The Barbecue Smokes, but the Customers Can't" explores the ins and outs of the Texas tradition of barbecuing. In "Where Summer's Lovely Roses Still Bloom," Marlin reminisces about the dreadful summers spent picking cotton. "The Place They Didn't Catch Clyde Barrow" describes how the news of Bonnie and Clyde running rampant in 1934 took the edge off of an otherwise depressing existence. Colorful and witty, I'll Get By provides insights into life in rural Texas during the Great Depression and shows that humor can provide relief in many challenging situations.

Author : Wendelin Van Draanen
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375835254

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Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen Pdf

While on her first hiking and camping trip, thirteen-year-old Sammy tries to solve a mystery involving endangered condors while avoiding scorpions, ticks, and embarrassment.

Author : Seanan McGuire,Blake Jessop,William C. Dietz,D.B. Jackson,Gerald Brandt,Sharon P. Goza,Walter H. Hunt,Sharon Lee,Steve Miller,Kay Kenyon,Steve Perry,Christopher Allenby,Chris Kennedy,L.E. Modesitt,Alex Gideon,Brian Hugenbruch,Y.M. Pang
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781940709239

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The Razor's Edge by Seanan McGuire,Blake Jessop,William C. Dietz,D.B. Jackson,Gerald Brandt,Sharon P. Goza,Walter H. Hunt,Sharon Lee,Steve Miller,Kay Kenyon,Steve Perry,Christopher Allenby,Chris Kennedy,L.E. Modesitt,Alex Gideon,Brian Hugenbruch,Y.M. Pang Pdf

One man’s insurgent is another man’s freedom fighter... From The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to The Hunger Games, everyone enjoys a good rebellion. There is something compelling about a group (or individual) who throws caution to the wind and rises up in armed defiance against oppression, tyranny, religion, the government—you name it. No matter the cause, or how small the chance, it’s the courage to fight against overwhelming odds that grabs our hearts and has us pumping our fists in the air. Win or lose, it’s the righteous struggle we cherish, and those who take up arms for a cause must walk The Razor’s Edge between liberator and extremist. With stories by Blake Jessop, William C. Dietz, D.B. Jackson, Gerald Brandt, Sharon P. Goza, Walter H. Hunt, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Kay Kenyon, Steve Perry, Seanan McGuire, Christopher Allenby, Chris Kennedy, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Alex Gideon, Brian Hugenbruch, and Y.M. Pang.

Author : Shawn Kupfer
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426896187

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Supercritical by Shawn Kupfer Pdf

Siberia, 2021 As global tensions escalate, China attacks New York City, wiping out its entire population. Marine ex-con Nick Morrow and his team of convicts, dubbed 47 Echo, are sent on a deadly mission—to infiltrate Shanghai and shut down its computer network. Given virtually no weaponry, the crew must rely on themselves as they trek across the dangerous countryside, crawling with enemies. As they head toward almost certain death, Nick struggles to not lose his ever-thinning thread of control. Though the convict soldiers outnumber their own military counterparts, they're looked down upon as human shields. But to Nick, they're friends. The team needs him—hell, the world needs him. The stakes are higher than ever before. This will be the ultimate battle, and the consequences will test everything Nick is and will become. 82,000 words

Author : Karl Jirgens
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780889844506

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The Razor's Edge by Karl Jirgens Pdf

‘Unwillingly, I’ve become part of the story. Questions lie when reconstructing incomplete facts, half-truths, enigmas. What remains is incompletion, interruption. Only the dead know what happened.’ In The Razor’s Edge, Karl Jirgens presents a collection of interlinked fictions that inhabit halfway worlds between past and present, dream and actuality, science and divination. Ordinary daily activities and events lead to unexpected slides into lucid dreams and flirtations with the edge of madness. Drawing on literature and pop culture (from Cinderella and Hamlet to Vladimir Mayakovsky and Anthony Bourdain) as well as the history of twentieth-century genocides (including the Holocaust and the Gulag), these complex, magic realist stories suggest that what seems separate is really interconnected, that the distinction between past, present and future is illusion, and that we might all die of the truth if the truth were truly known.

Author : G. Michael Hopf
Publisher : G. Michael Hopf
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Razor's Edge by G. Michael Hopf Pdf

THE NEW WORLD SERIES CONTINUES WITH BOOK SIX, THE RAZOR'S EDGE Gordon Van Zandt is a man accustomed to adversity and hardship, but now he is left with dwindling options. With his fledgling republic teetering on the verge of collapse, he must find a way to seize an unlikely victory from what appears to be certain defeat. President Cruz is no stranger to the position he holds, having served in Conner's absence before; however; this time the job is proving to be difficult and downright impossible. The remnants of the United States are being held together by a patchwork of governors and bureaucrats, some using his weakness as a means to enrich themselves. With the war against Cascadia at a standstill, he must make a decision to either negotiate peace or continue the war that has done nothing but damage each side and left his military scattered and weakened. Both men are in precarious positions and riding the razor's edge towards an uncertain future.

Author : Svenja Bethke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487531171

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Dance on the Razor’s Edge by Svenja Bethke Pdf

Historians have mainly seen the ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe as spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor’s Edge explores how, in fact, highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. Looking at sources from multiple archives and countries, Svenja Bethke investigates how the Jewish Councils, set up on German orders and composed of ghetto inhabitants, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative, as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down, bringing with them pre-war notions of justice and morality, and she considers the extent to which this rupture led to new judgments on human behaviour. In doing so, Bethke aims to understand how people attempted to use their very limited scope for action in order to survive. Set against the background of a Holocaust historiography that often still seeks for clear categories of "good" and "bad" behaviours, Dance on the Razor’s Edge calls for a new understanding of the ghettos as complex communities in an unprecedented emergency situation.

Author : Celine Jeanjean
Publisher : Celine Jeanjean
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Razor's Edge Chronicles: Books 1-3 by Celine Jeanjean Pdf

Dive into this fun and quirky Urban Fantasy novel that draws from Asian mythology! If I tell you that I have magic, you’re probably going to expect all kinds of fancy things, like fire balls or maybe some kind of badass demon slaying assassin. Yeah, that’s not me. I’m a barber to the supernatural because my magic is too weak and weird to do anything else. So why have the fae asked me to look after one of their eggs—the most precious thing in the world to a fae—when I’m so vastly under qualified? Either they’ve taken leave of their senses, or they’re seriously desperate. And if the fae are desperate, that means that with my weak magic, I’m utterly out of my depth. Oh, and my backup is a sarcastic cat, which doesn’t come in handy when I find myself facing off against a very old, very powerful magical creature who’s after the egg. The damn cat scampers off and I’m left with nothing more than my piddly magic and my wits to get myself out of this mess. That’s the thing about the magical underworld of Panong—it might be dangerous and complicated, but at least it’s never dull. The Razor’s Edge Chronicles is an Asian Urban Fantasy series drawing inspiration from various Asian myths and featuring all kind of amazing new magical creatures, totally different from anything you’ve encountered so far. Dive into the Razor’s Edge Chronicles’ magical world today! Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy this urban fantasy series: Lindsay Buroker, Leanne Leads, Kelly St. Clare, Emma Scott, Rebecca Hamilton, Elizabeth Briggs, Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, Harley Laroux, Jaymin Eve, Deborah Wilde, Shannon Mayer, Michelle Madow, Kate Danley, P.C. James, Janet Butler Male, Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntrye Keywords: Urban fantasy, UF, urban fantasy series, Asian urban fantasy, Asian magical creatures, werewolves, dragons, vampires, fairies, fae, shapeshifters, paranormal, snarky urban fantasy, snappy banter, funny urban fantasy, urban fantasy with strong female lead, magic, asian mythology, original world-building, contemporary fantasy, paranormal books, vampire fantasy, fun urban fantasy, humorous urban fantasy books, supernatural thrillers books, supernatural powers, magic, come into powers.