The Secret Agent S Surprises

Author : Tina Leonard
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426828126

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The Secret Agent's Surprises by Tina Leonard Pdf

The blackest sheep of the Morgan clan came home to Texas to collect his inheritance…not start a family. But there's a family already waiting for him! Four orphaned quadruplets in need of a loving home are pretty hard to resist. The hitch? To adopt them, Pete needs a wife. And Priscilla Perkins could be the ideal candidate…. She may be wildly attracted to the globe-hopping secret agent, but Priscilla isn't going to be lassoed into marriage by Pete or his matchmaking father. Even if it is just a temporary engagement. And even if the tiny babies are calling to something deep inside her. Priscilla may not think Pete is husband material, but he knows she'd make a super mom. With five angels stealing his heart, it's a scenario no man can resist!

Author : Devlin Barrett
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541758681

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October Surprise by Devlin Barrett Pdf

The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon. The event that broke Hillary's blue wall in the Midwest and swung Florida and North Carolina was an October Surprise, and it was wholly a product of the leadership of the FBI. This is the inside story by the reporter closest to its center. In September 2016, Hillary Clinton was the presumptive next president of the US. She had a blue wall of states leaning her way in the Midwest, and was ahead in North Carolina and Florida, with a better than even shot at taking normally Republican Arizona. The US was about to get its first woman president. Yet within two months everything was lost. An already tightening race saw one seismic correction: it came in October when the FBI launched an investigation into the Clinton staff's use of a private server for their emails. Clinton fell 3-4 percent in the polls instantly, and her campaign never had time to rebut the investigation or rebuild her momentum so close to election day. The FBI cost her the race. October Surprise is a pulsating narrative of an agency seized with righteous certainty that waded into the most important political moment in the life of the nation, and has no idea how to back out with dignity. So it doggedly stands its ground, compounding its error. In a momentous display of self-preservation, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and key Justice Department officials decide to protect their own reputations rather than save the democratic process. Once they make that determination, the race is lost for Clinton, who is helpless in front of their accusation even though she has not intended to commit, let alone actually committed, any crime. A dark true-life thriller with historic consequences set at the most crucial moment in the electoral calendar, October Surprise is a warning, a morality tale and a political and personal tragedy.

Author : Tina Leonard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408958261

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The Secret Agent's Surprises (Mills & Boon Love Inspired) (The Morgan Men, Book 1) by Tina Leonard Pdf

The blackest sheep of the Morgan clan came home to Texas to collect his inheritance...not start a family. But there's a family already waiting for him! Four orphaned quadruplets in need of a loving home are pretty hard to resist. The hitch? To adopt them, Pete needs a wife. And Priscilla Perkins could be the ideal candidate....

Author : Lars Ole Sauerberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349176526

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Secret Agents in Fiction by Lars Ole Sauerberg Pdf

Author : Brenda Ponnay
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781623955267

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Secret Agent Josephine in Paris by Brenda Ponnay Pdf

There's a new super spy in town! Secret Agent Josephine may not look like a super mom, but when she goes to work, bad guys better watch out for her crafty tricks. In this Secret Agent Josephine adventure, our heroine travels to Paris to scope out some new craft supplies and stop an infamous art thief. Donning disguises and stocking up on the tools of her trade, Secret Agent Josephine tracks the thief through the streets of Paris. But when she's spotted, will her crafting skills be able to get her out of a jam?

Author : Vera Tobin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674919594

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Elements of Surprise by Vera Tobin Pdf

Why do some surprises delight—the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip’s benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains conspire with stories to produce those revelatory plots that define a “well-made surprise.” By tracing the prevalence of surprise endings in both literary fiction and popular literature and showing how they exploit our mental limits, Tobin upends two common beliefs. The first is cognitive science’s tendency to consider biases a form of moral weakness and failure. The second is certain critics’ presumption that surprise endings are mere shallow gimmicks. The latter is simply not true, and the former tells at best half the story. Tobin shows that building a good plot twist is a complex art that reflects a sophisticated understanding of the human mind. Reading classic, popular, and obscure literature alongside the latest research in cognitive science, Tobin argues that a good surprise works by taking advantage of our mental limits. Elements of Surprise describes how cognitive biases, mental shortcuts, and quirks of memory conspire with stories to produce wondrous illusions, and also provides a sophisticated how-to guide for writers. In Tobin’s hands, the interactions of plot and cognition reveal the interdependencies of surprise, sympathy, and sense-making. The result is a new appreciation of the pleasures of being had.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798699168026

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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Pdf

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations.Built on the themes of espionage, double agents, government policies, politics, terrorism and revolutionaries, it is a dark and tragic tale, and even brutal at times. In the heart of the story is a secret agent, his double life and his unsuspecting family. The whole story is knitted around them.

Author : Andrea Edwards
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459260269

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Secret Agent Groom by Andrea Edwards Pdf

THE AGENT'S SECRET Years ago, Alex Waterstone had been reckless and charming—every girl's dream date. But Heather Mahoney never really dated—she hadn't even gone to the prom. Still, she would go to a wedding—hers. And Alex would make the perfect groom…. Secret agent Waterstone was knee-deep in an undercover mission, but Heather's teasing smile had his mind elsewhere. Yet even a kiss was forbidden, for showing he cared would make the innocent beauty a target. And Alex would risk anything to keep Heather safe. Still, who would protect this bachelor's heart from love? The BRIDAL CIRCLE They dreamed of marrying and leaving their small town behind—but soon discovered there's no place like home for true love!

Author : James Fenimore Cooper,John Buchan,William Le Queux,Talbot Mundy,Arthur Conan Doyle,Joseph Conrad,Erskine Childers,George Barton,Robert W. Chambers,Fred M. White,Robert Baden-Powell,John R. Coryell,E. Philips Oppenheim
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 13254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547684572

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The Secret Agent: Ultimate Spy Collection (77 Books in One Volume) by James Fenimore Cooper,John Buchan,William Le Queux,Talbot Mundy,Arthur Conan Doyle,Joseph Conrad,Erskine Childers,George Barton,Robert W. Chambers,Fred M. White,Robert Baden-Powell,John R. Coryell,E. Philips Oppenheim Pdf

Good Press presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents (George Barton) My Adventures as a Spy (Robert Baden-Powell) Novels: Robert W. Chambers In Secret The Dark Star The Slayer of Souls The Flaming Jewel John Buchan: The 39 Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast The Three Hostages The Island of Sheep The Courts of the Morning The Green Wildebeest Huntingtower Castle Gay The House of the Four Winds The Power-House John Macnab The Dancing Floor The Gap in the Curtain Sick Heart River Sing a Song of Sixpence E. Phillips Oppenheim: The Spy Paramount The Great Impersonation Last Train Out The Double Traitor The Spymaster Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat The Vanished Messenger The Pawns Court The Box With Broken Seals The Great Prince Shan The Devil's Paw The Zeppelin's Passenger The Kingdom of the Blind The Illustrious Prince The Lost Ambassador Mysterious Mr. Sabin The Betrayal The Colossus of Arcadia Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent John R. Coryell: The Great Spy System William Le Queux: The Great War in England in 1897 The Invasion of 1910 Whoso Findeth a Wife Of Royal Blood Her Majesty's Minister The Under-Secretary The Czar's Spy Spies of the Kaiser The Price of Power Her Royal Highness At the Sign of the Sword Number 70, Berlin The Way to Win The Zeppelin Destroyer Sant of the Secret Service Fred M. White: The Romance of the Secret Service Fund By Woman's Wit The Mazaroff Rifle In the Express The Almedi Concession The Other Side of the Chess-Board Three of Them James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground Arthur Conan Doyle: His Last Bow Talbot Mundy: Jimgrim and Allah's Peace The Iblis at Ludd The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil The Lion of Petra The Woman Ayisha Affair in Araby A Secret Society Moses and Mrs. Aintree The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb...

Author : E. Philips Oppenheim,Arthur Conan Doyle,John Buchan,Erskine Childers,Joseph Conrad,William Le Queux,Fred M. White,Robert W. Chambers,Talbot Mundy,James Fenimore Cooper,John R. Coryell,George Barton,Robert Baden-Powell
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 15046 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027249008

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The Secret Agent: Ultimate Spy Collection (77 Books in One Volume) by E. Philips Oppenheim,Arthur Conan Doyle,John Buchan,Erskine Childers,Joseph Conrad,William Le Queux,Fred M. White,Robert W. Chambers,Talbot Mundy,James Fenimore Cooper,John R. Coryell,George Barton,Robert Baden-Powell Pdf

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents (George Barton) My Adventures as a Spy (Robert Baden-Powell) Novels: Robert W. Chambers In Secret The Dark Star The Slayer of Souls The Flaming Jewel John Buchan: The 39 Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast The Three Hostages The Island of Sheep The Courts of the Morning The Green Wildebeest Huntingtower Castle Gay The House of the Four Winds The Power-House John Macnab The Dancing Floor The Gap in the Curtain Sick Heart River Sing a Song of Sixpence E. Phillips Oppenheim: The Spy Paramount The Great Impersonation Last Train Out The Double Traitor The Spymaster Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat The Vanished Messenger The Pawns Court The Box With Broken Seals The Great Prince Shan The Devil's Paw The Zeppelin's Passenger The Kingdom of the Blind The Illustrious Prince The Lost Ambassador Mysterious Mr. Sabin The Betrayal The Colossus of Arcadia Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent John R. Coryell: The Great Spy System William Le Queux: The Great War in England in 1897 The Invasion of 1910 Whoso Findeth a Wife Of Royal Blood Her Majesty's Minister The Under-Secretary The Czar's Spy Spies of the Kaiser The Price of Power Her Royal Highness At the Sign of the Sword Number 70, Berlin The Way to Win The Zeppelin Destroyer Sant of the Secret Service Fred M. White: The Romance of the Secret Service Fund By Woman's Wit The Mazaroff Rifle In the Express The Almedi Concession The Other Side of the Chess-Board Three of Them James Fenimore Cooper: The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground Arthur Conan Doyle: His Last Bow Talbot Mundy: Jimgrim and Allah's Peace The Iblis at Ludd The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil The Lion of Petra The Woman Ayisha Affair in Araby A Secret Society Moses and Mrs. Aintree The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb…

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : Collector's Library
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904919472

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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Pdf

An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be a simple tale proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. This new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a monstrous town, a place of idiocy, madness, criminality and butchery.

Author : Todd K. Bender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000040173

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A Concordance to Conrad's The Secret Agent by Todd K. Bender Pdf

Originally published in 1979, this concordance consists of a Verbal Index listing the location of all words used by Conrad, a Word Frequency Table listing number occurrences for each word in his text, and a Field of Reference in which the user can locate in its context a word cited in the Verbal Index. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

Author : Joseph Conrad
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780393522983

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The Secret Agent (Norton Critical Editions) by Joseph Conrad Pdf

“[A] masterly study of the inner workings of the disordered minds whose aim is destruction, violence, and the overturning of law and order by means of bombs.” —The (London) Observer (1907) This Norton Critical Edition includes: - The first English book edition of the novel (1907), accompanied by explanatory footnotes. - Four illustrations. - Contemporary sources that informed Conrad’s writing of the novel, including newspaper accounts of the “Greenwich Bomb Outrage,” articles from the anarchist press, earlier fictional treatments of the Martial Bourdin case (the inspiration for Adolph Verloc), and important texts related to anarchism and fin-de-siecle culture. - Seven wide-ranging critical essays by Ian Watt, Terry Eagleton, Martin Ray, Hugh Epstein, Gail Fincham, Peter Lancelot Mallios, and Michael Newton. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Author : Laifong Leung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317516194

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Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers by Laifong Leung Pdf

In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. In 2000, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature followed by Mo Yan in 2012, and writers such as Ha Jin and Da Sijie have also become well known in the West. Despite this progress, the vast majority of Chinese writers remain largely unknown outside of China. This book introduces the lives and works of eighty contemporary Chinese writers, and focuses on writers from the "Rightist" generation (Bai Hua, Gao Xiaosheng, Liu Shaotang), writers of the Red Guard generation (Li Rui, Wang Anyi), Post-Cultural Revolution Writers, as well as others. Unlike earlier works, it provides detailed, often first-hand, biographical information on this wide range of writers, including their career trajectories, major themes and artistic characteristics. In addition to this, each entry includes a critical presentation and evaluation of the writer’s major works, a selected bibliography of publications that includes works in Chinese, works translated into English, and critical articles and books available in English. Offering a valuable contribution to the field of contemporary Chinese literature by making detailed information about Chinese writers more accessible, this book will be of interest to students and scholars Chinese Literature, Contemporary Literature and Chinese Studies.

Author : Tom Petch
Publisher : Random House
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780753559413

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Speed, Aggression, Surprise by Tom Petch Pdf

'Awesome!' ANDY McNAB | 'You must read this book' Colonel TIM COLLINS OBE | 'Extraordinary' Sir RANULPH FIENNES Forget what you thought you knew. Discover the REAL story of how the SAS was created. From ex-SAS Commander Tom Petch, this is the never-before-told story of how the world's preeminent Special Forces came into existence. Flashing between dramatic accounts from the frontlines and power negotiations in Westminster, it's an adventure that reaches from the trenches of the Western Front to piracy in the deserts of North Africa, to the final assault on Germany. Drawing on hidden archives and told with captivating drama, it focuses on two characters largely overlooked in the traditional narrative - Dudley Clarke the mastermind, and William Fraser the frontline operator. Without them there would never have been an SAS. 'Gripping and fascinating... Packed with unforgettable characters and thrilling adventures' WILL IREDALE, bestselling author of The Pathfinders